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They give us great ideas of the dignity of human nature, and of the love which the supreme Being bears to his creatures, and consequently engage us in the highest acts of Duty towards our Creator, our Neighbour, and ourselves. How many noble arguments has Saint Paul raised from the chief articles of our religion, for the advancing of morality in its three great branches? To give a single example in each kind: What can be a stronger motive to a firm trust and reliance on the mercies of our Maker, than the giving us his Son to suffer for us? What can make us love and esteem even the most inconsiderable of mankind, more than the thought that Christ died for him? Or what disposes us to set a stricter guard upon the purity of our own hearts, than our being members of Christ, and a part of the society of which that immaculate Person is the head? but these are only a specimen of those admirable enforcements of morality, which the Apostle has drawn from the history of our blessed Saviour.

note No. 188. /note He is a very unhappy man who sets his heart upon being admired by the multitude, or affects a general and undistinguishing applause among men. What pious men call the testimony of a good conscience,