obligation, his heart would devise liberal things. Injustice or intemperance, and all other vices, are as contrary to his temper and constitution, as the basest actions are to the most generous spirit, and impudence and scurrility to those who are naturally modest: so that I may well say with St. John*, Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin because he is born of God. Though holy and religious persons do much eye the law of God, and have a