380 APPENDIX. 



And now having thus cleared and secured the 

 fountain of righteousness, in the discharge of 

 some part of our duty to God (where regularly it 

 must begin ;) it remains, Ut ducatur rivus justitice 

 de fonte pietatis, as St. Gregory speaks : it must 

 not be a fountain sealed or shut up within itself; 

 (religion is not, as some would have it, a super- 

 sedeas to common honesty ; the performing our 

 duty towards God, no discharge of our duty to 

 man :) in the next place it should run down like 

 a river,* in mighty streams of righteousness to all 

 our neighbours round about us ; the other great 

 branch, the second table, or (if you will) the other 

 hemisphere in this great globe of righteousness. 

 And here, Ecce novas Hijadas, aliumque Oriona — 

 So many new asterisms and constellations of vir- 

 tues appear, that the time will not give leave to 

 number them, or call them all by their names : I 

 can only touch lightly the greater circles, some 

 of the more comprehensive lines and measures of 

 them, in these few generals, and so pass on. 



1. It is righteousness indefinitely, first, and so 

 universally. So that it will not be sufficient to 

 take forth some part of it in God's school, a line 

 or two, it may be, of our great lesson, and neglect 

 the rest ; to study some one page or paragraph, 

 and tear all the book besides ; to break the tables 

 (to far worse effect than Moses did) and content 

 ourselves with some sorry fragment : no, whatever 



* Amos. V. 24. 



