ilt the Soul of Man. 79 vanities which we have ihut out at the door, get in at a pofl-ern. There are fl:ill fome pretenfions, fome hopes that flatter us; and, after \Ve have been frufirated a thoufand times, we n1ufi continually be repeating the experiment. The leaft diffe– rence of circun1Hances is enough to delude us, and n1ake us expeCt that fatisfacrion in one thing, whieh we have miffed in ano– ther. But .could we once get clearly o.fl; and come to a real and fe rious contempt of worldly things, this were a very con– fiderable advancement in our way. The foul of man is of a Yigorous and active nature, ~nd bath in it a r2ging and unex– tingu.ifhablc tbirft; an in1matcrizd J'ind of fire, al·ways catching at fome object or other, in conj unftio!1 \V bcrewith it thinks to be happy; and Vi'erc .it once rent fro1n the world, and all the bewitching cnjoy– n1ents under the fun, it v.'ould quickly fearch after fome higher 211d n1ore excel– lent objeel, to fatisfy its a~dent and im– portunate cravicgs; and, being no longer dazzled ~ith glittering vanities, would fix on that fupreme and all-icfficient good, where it Viiould difcover fuch beauty ~ad fweetncfs, as v1ould charn1 and overpower all its affecricns. 'The love of tbe world, and the love of God, are like the fcales of a
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