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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1758 Excerpt: ...Man is concerned and busied in making Provision, or obtaining: Security for himself, he is by degrees engaged in Connections with a Family, Friends, Neighbours, a Community, or a Common-wealth. Hence arise new Wants, new Interests, new Cares, and new Employments. The Passions of one Man interfere with those of another. Interests are opposed. Competitions arise,-contrary Courses are taken. Disappointments happen, Distinctions are made, and Parties formed.-. Tliis opens a vast Scene of Distraction and Embarrassment, and introduces a mighty Train of Good and III, both Public and Private. Yet amidst all this Confusion and Hurry, Plans of Action must be laid, Consequences foreseen, or guarded against, lnconvenicncies provided for; and frequently particular Resolutions must be taken, and Schemes executed, without Reasoning or Delay. Now what Provision has the Author of our NaPro-oistom ture made for this necessitous Condition? How far it. has he fitted the Actor, Man, for playing his Part in this perplexed and busy Scene? He has admonished the Individual of private Good and private III by peculiar Senses, and urged him by keen Instincts to pursue the former and repel the latter. But what Provision, what Security has the Deity made for the Community, the Public I Who, or what shall answer for his good Behaviour to it? Our supreme Parent, watchful for the Whole, Bj fublic has not left himself without a Witness here neither, Senses mJ and hath made nothing imperfect, but all things Pajjious. are dou,ie one against another. He has not left Man to be informed, only by the cool Notices of Reason, of the Good or ///, the Happiness or Misery of his Fellow-creatures. He has made him sensible ot their Good and Happiness, but especially of their 111 and Misery, by an immedi...
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