THE

LIFE OF GOD

IN THE

SOUL OF MAN;

OR, THE

NATURE AND EXCELLENCY

OF THE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

BY HENRY SCOUGAL, M. A.
Some time Professor of Divinity in the
University of Aberdeen.

WITH RECOMMENDATORY PREFACES,
By Bishop Burnet, Doctor Wishart, and some
Clergymen of Philadelphia.

ΤΟ WHICH ARE ADDED

SOME FORMS OF PRAYER,'

BY ANOTHER HAND.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY A. BARTRAM,

FOR F. NICHOLS, PHILADELPHIA-AND
J. A. CUMMINGS, BOSTON.

PREFACE I.

TH

HIS age groans under fuch a furcharge of new books, that though the many good ones lately published, do much balance the great swarms of ill, or at least needless ones; yet all men complain of the unneceffary charge and trouble many new books put them to: the truth of it is, Printing is become a trade, and the preffes must be kept going, fo that if it were but to fhuffle out an ill book, a man may be tempted to keep them at work

And for books of devotion and piety, we have feen fo many excellent ones of late in our own language, that perhaps no age or language can fhew the like in these the Chriftian Religion is propof. ed in its own true and natural colours, and rescued from those false representations many are apt to make of it; as if it confifted either in external performances, or in mechanical heats of the fancy, or in embracing fome opinions or interests It is, and can be nothing else, but a defign to make us like God, both in the inward temper of our minds, and in our whole deportment and conversation. For this end did Chrift both live and die; this he taught by his