recommended. 41 I tentednefs, humility, and patience, are S ER iv4 taught in the gofpel to the higheft perfec- XV- tion; and not only the vicious anions trary to them are prohibited, but fuch re- ftraints are laid upon the inclinations and paffions as is neceffaty to preferve the fupe- riority of reafon and confcience, and upon that foundation the inward tranquillity and peace of the mind. All diftruftful anxiety about the things of this life is ftriEtly for- bidden ; not only about the fuperfluities of it, but even the neceffaries, what we (hall eat and what we (hall drink ; and we are called to fet our of e ions, not on things on earth but on the things above. In a word, the difciples of Chrift are by his plain precepts taught fuch a government over the appetites and paffions as few men could otherwife ar- rive to the knowledge of, even in fpeculati- on. And by the force of thofe precepts, to- gether with the motives of the gofpel, in the primitive times of the chriftian church many were a&ually raifed to fuch a pitch of heavenly - mindednefs, felf- denial, and gene - rous contempt of the world, as was unpar- railed in any other age or under any other inftitution than the chriftian. Now, this is a very important part of our duty, which as there are many calls to pra Life, temptations to
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