recommended.` 407 badges, and merely external privileges ; but SE x M. the end of the gofpel commandment is XV. the practice of virtue, and charity out of ' a pure heart. It ought to be taken for gran- ted, as generally agreed to by mankind, and indeed the chriflian religion fuppofeth rather than proveth it, that there is fuch a thing as a neceffary difference between right and wrong, or moral good and evil ; the fenfe of it is deeply engraven on the minds of men, producing joy and felf - applaufe when they do what is good, as a confcioufnefs of evil, is attended with inward reproach and con- fufion. This the apofile calleth the work of God's law written in men's hearts, and it is the foundation on which all moral inftitutions refl, and from which they derive their force. But the knowledge of morality was very much obfcured in the world, or the human capacity of attaining to it was not duly im- proved ; for it is certain that, at leafs, the vulgar notions of piety and virtue were very defeaive, fome of them extremely obfcu- red. By the vanity of their thoughts the fool- ifh hearts of men were darkened, and that which might be known of God, being mani- fefled by his works, they were ignorant of miffed by their own contrafted prejudices, they run into grofs miftakes concerning the D d q. divine
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