as they are here placed before any actual performance of the moral law; and that some things contrary to them would put us into a better frame for holiness. Against all which surmises, I shall endeavour such a demonstration of these endowments particularly, as may gain the assent of right reason; insisting on them in the same order wherein I have placed them in the direction. In the first place, I assert, that an inclination and propensity of heart, to the duties of the law, is necessary to frame