VIRTUE our SUPREME HAPPINESS. 
light that is, that mankind Should know To well how to 
conduct the common afiairs of life, and be ignorant or inattentive 
towards him who made the world ! We Should think that man 
fooliSh as well as ungrateful, who forgot the donor of the (lately 
edifice, through a ridiculous folicitude how to arrange the pic- 
tures in a certain apartment of it, efpecially if he depended on 
the further bounty of the donor for the fupport of it. 
To think of god, and to pradlice virtue in obedience to 
his laws, is the fupreme happinefs of men ; and not to think 
of him, or to be vicious, will as certainly render us miferable. 
Adopt this as a principle ; adhere to it, follow it ; part with 
your life, but never abandon it, neither in theory, nor in prac- 
tice. To obfervc this the more exa&ly, we mud take into the 
confideration our whole existence, and not the moments of a 
tranfitory life only. Farewell. I am yours, &c. 
LETTER XLIX. 
To the fame. 
Madam, 
t“|T^ H E notion I entertained of rewards and punishments af- 
8 ter death, and what may immediately follow the fepa- 
ration of foul and body, was the next fubjedt of your enquiry. 
The great queftion is, what are we to do to inherit eternal 
life? you know our saviour’s anfwer was, “ to love god with 
u all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, 
“ with all our mind, and our neighbor as ourfelves.” We do 
not appear capable of reaching to the height to which the 
mind 
