This is a sort of Thrift or Good-Husbandry in moral Life, which does not throw away any single Action, but makes every one go as far as it can. It multiplies the Means of Salvation, increases the Number of our Virtues, and diminishes that of our Vices.

[There]

is something very devout, though not solid, in

Acosta's

Answer to

Limborch

[2]

, who objects to him the Multiplicity of Ceremonies in the

Jewish

Religion, as Washings, Dresses, Meats, Purgations, and the like. The Reply which the