128 ON SOUNDNESS IN JUDGMEN'4 dually right, all relatively associated.. Where the character is consistent, preju- dice cannot ridicule, nor infidelity sneer. It may, indeed, be censured, as holding up a standard above the attainment of the careless. The world may dislike, but it cannot despise it In the more advanced Christian, reli- gion may seem to be less prominent in parts of the character, because it is in- fused into the whole. Like the life- blood, its vital power pervades the entire system.: not an action of the life that is not governed by it ; not a quality of the mind which does riot partake of its spirit. It is diffused through the whole conduct, and sheds its benign influence, not only on the things done, but on the temper of the doer in per- forming them. The affections now have other objects, the time other duties, the thoughts other employments. There will be more exertion, but with less dis- play ; less show, because the principle is become more interior it will be less
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