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new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater degrees of resemblance. With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own Souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection? we know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The Soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it: and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness. [[note]] No: 122 [[/note]] A Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the word: If the last interferes with the former; it ought to be intirely neglected, but otherwise there cannot be a greater
