the midst of snares and serpents, and goes on confidently, without consideration of his danger, as if his paths were all smooth and safe, will one time or other be entangled or bitten. Blind confidence in a course of profession, as if the whole of it were a dangerless road, is a ruining principle, 1 Pet. 1:17; Prov. 28:14; “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished,” Prov. 22:3. It is the highest folly not to look out after dangers, and which usually