xxvi CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC « CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC 41 The PREFACE. complained of, as experience fully de- monftrates : But that this is a true prin- ciple, is apparent, from a fair view of all the powers, affections, and enjoyments of our nature, taken together ; for virtuous fentiments, and affections, and enjoyments, are fo deep wrought into our conftitu- tion, that it is impoßïble to efface them. To refit} and ftrive continually againft them, is to make ourfelves compleatly miferable ; whereas, to refift the other affections and pallions, affords inward fe- renity and peace ; fo that, upon the con- trary principle to that which I now af- fert, the human nature would be an un- accountable work of God, a heap of ab- furdities and contradictions, like the fha- dow of death, without any light or or- der. But this principle mutt lie at the bottom of all religion, and, I hope, I need not Bill be laying the foundation from it, as I am fatisfied concerning the difpenfations of divine providence toward me, fo I fee my own faults, which con- fit} principally in oppofing and thwarting it, fetting my heart on thofe things, as the principal bufinefs and fruitions of life which really are not fo; and, upon this sc wrong
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