OF A RELIGIOUS LIFE OPENED AND PROVED: BY MATTHEW HENRY. WILLIAMS. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY PEIRCE AND PHILADELPHIA: TOWER, J. D. & M. HOGAN. .............. 1830. THE PLEASANTNESS OF A RELIGIOUS LIFE. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." Prov. iii. 17. TRUE religion is often in Scripture, and particularly in this book of the Proverbs, represented and recommended to us under the name and character of 'Wisdom,' because it is the highest improvement of human nature, and the best and surest guide of human life. It was one of the first and most ancient discoveries of God's mind to the children of men. When God made a' weight for the winds' and a 'decree for the rain,' when he brought all the other creatures under the established rule and law of their creation, according to their respective capacities, then he declared this to man, a reasonable |