represses all vain and excessive fears, gives us a superiority to all the external accidents of our mortal state, and strengthens the soul against all toils or dangers we may be ex∣posed to in discharge of our duty; as an early and painful death with virtue and ho∣nour, is highly preferable to the longest ig∣nominious life, and no advantages can be compared in point of happiness with the approbation of God, and of our own hearts.That if in this manner we live prepared for any honourable services to God, our fel∣lows, and ourselves, and practice piety to∣ward God, good-will toward men, and im∣mediately aim at our own perfection, then we may expect, notwithstanding our being involved in manifold weaknesses and dis∣orders of soul, that the divine goodness and clemency will have mercy on such as sin∣cerely love him, and desire to serve him with duty and gratitude; will be propitious and placable to the penitents, and all who exert their utmost endeavours in the pur∣suits of virtue: And since the perfection of virtue must constitute the supreme felicity of man, our efforts to attain it, must be effectual in obtaining compleat felicity, or at least some lower degree of it.7. Of Revea∣led Reli∣gion. This beautiful, moral Philosophy I found scattered in the wtitings of the old 0