recommended. 404 ment, and Pince he hath taught them jufter S E R na. fentiments concerning himfelf, his nature XV. and attributes, and concerning his govern - anent of the reafonable creatures, and every part of their duty to him, to themfelves, and to one another, that revelation ought to be the rule of their actions ; and a converfation becoming it is the very reverfe of a conver- fation according to the former luffs of men in ignorance ; it is filch a one as is agreeable to the infiru &ions and the rules he hath gi- ven them, comprehending the worfhip of him in fpirit and truth, the offices of juftice and charity, with a proper rule over our own fpirits, keeping the felfifh appetites and paf - fions under a ftrit difcipline, and a mode- rate ufe of worldly enjoyments. Converfation is a word we frequently meet with in fcrip- ' tore, and it fignifieth the tenor of a man's life morally confidered, or the courfe of his de- liberate ations, with a regard to the rule, the principles, and the motives, by which it is direáed, and the ends which it purfu- eth ; thus we read of an upright and a vain, a holy and a filthy converfation ; a conver- fation by the grace of God in fincerity and godly fimplicity, Pet in oppofition to that which is conducted by flefhly wifdom. Eve- ry man being a rational and a free agent is fuppofed
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