DISSWASIVE againft a carelefs LIFE. 175 
This cannot be done by being forrowful, nor yet by de- 
voting ourfelves to mirth and feftivity ; it muft arife from a 
well regulated fpirit. But it is extreme folly to imagine a tra- 
veller will happily arrive at the end of his journey, without 
purfe or conveyance. If there is nothing advantageous to be 
obtained without care and labor, will everlafling happinefs be 
intruded on us ? will it come to us, if we do not go to meet 
it ? When grapes, which grow on unpruned vines, become 
more delicious than thofe where the fkilful gardener has em- 
ployed his art ; then may we hope that the carelefs or profane 
may become the favorites of heaven. Religion is a science, in 
which, like many others, we can make no progrefs without ap- 
plication : the eflentials of it, indeed, are level to common ca- 
pacities, and therefore the honefl peafant may shine, when 
the man of the acuteft parts remains ignorant. Simplicity and 
integrity of heart, whatever fome may imagine, are qualities of 
much greater value than genius or fancy. 
If the heart is engrofs’d by the world, and eftranged from 
god, what expectations do reafon warrant? not, furely, that 
we fhall live and die like beings rational, and accountable to 
that god ? Go into the great world, you will find religious peo- 
ple ; ’tis abfurd to fay there are none ; there are many of vari- 
ous degrees of piety ; I will not pretend to defcribe them, nor 
what liberties they may take confident with virtue. But I am 
fure the raging defire of living perpetually in a crowd, is a 
diftemper of a very dangerous nature : it creates fuch a habit of 
mind in thofe who indulge it, that the greatefl: part of them 
are 
