practically improved. F07 finite minds, there feems to be infeparable SE R M. from their original frame, a poffibility of V. miflakes which may lead them into moral `"^Y"--) defects. Betides, every indigent being muff have felfifh affections, which may in fome circumftances be the fources of error, over - ballancing the benevolent difpofitions in which moral perfection confifts. But not to infift on this, of all orders of rational crea- tures, which we have any knowledge of, fome have actually corrupted themfelves. The angels who were made pure, and in a happy Rate, yet did not all continue in it : Tome of them kept not their firfi eitae of innocence and integrity ; but, being the firft example of difobedience, fell irrecoverably by their tranfgreffion, and were expell'd from their own habitation, their native heaven, into outer darkneJs, where they are referv'd under chains to the judgment of the great day. And the fcripture (hews us that the firft of mankind, tho' diftinguifh'd by the divine bounty with many gifts and pecu- liar privileges, whereby they were enabled to hold their integrity, and in a happy fitua- tion, far lefs liable to be tempted than their pofterity are, yet did not abide in the inno- cence,
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