the Scriptures do abound beyond what human nature has yet reacht .

O you, who thirst after divine knowledge,

Tit

it belongs to search into the arcana of faith, in youth, in eafe, in lettered fociety, amidst excellent aids, both human and divine. May you all become Scribes inftructed unto the kingdom of Heaven: found in faith, eloquent in Speech, exemplary in morals, defenders of truth, oppofers of error, rebukers of vice: Ever bearing as a frontlet, WISE AS SERPENTS, HARMLESS AS DOVES :—which that you may all become, may the bleffed TRINITY, which created you, redeemed you, and fan&tifies you, of infinite mercy grant.

light; the Doctrines relating to PERFECTION *, being largely treated of for the use of the adult Christian.

*Heb. 6. 1. TEλEIÓτnta and 5. 14. Perfection, and Texiswr, the adult or perfect.

See Analogy between the Bible and the natural world, treated of before, Part 3.

This was delivered in the hearing of an univerfity. To the fame purpose See part I.

ONE

Important, Practical Consequence

FROM THE

ANALOGY

Between the HIGHEST DEGREE OF

Animal STRENGTH,

And the HIGHEST DEGREE of

Attainable HOLINESS,

In a PROBATIONARY STATE.

Your young men fhall fee vifions, and your old men

fball dream dreams.

Joel, alfo Acts 2.

PART VIII. SECTION II.

DUBLIN:

Printed in the Year MDCCL.

ONE

Important, Practical Confequence

FROM THE

ANALOGY, &c.

EccL. II. 9.

Rejoyce O young man in thy youth, and let thy heart chear thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the fight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

T

HE whole life of a man in this world is very fhort, and if we confider only the active part of it, which is properly his time of living, it is yet shorter. Take from the life of the longeft liver, the years that are spent under the care of nurses, and Governors, with those that pass under the infirmities and inactivity of old age, and what remains is hardly worth naming: yet this fmall portion of time, which lies between the two ages of weakness and inability, to wit, between infancy, and old age, is of vaft confequence to us.

For