AM 266 The Halpin f of the Righteous SE R M. he belongs to, whatever miferies may befa! XI. his fellow citizens or countrymen, and what- ever outward calamities he may be involv'd in jointly with them, there is real good re- ferved for him, and he £hall be happy in proportion to the degree of his righteoufnefs. And here, as I have Rated the notion of that happinefs which is confequent upon virtue only in general, without defcending to Chafe particular bleffings and enjoyments, which chriftians either know by experience, or are taught to hope for by the revealed rule of their religion, fo I (hall begin the proof of the doftrine, with that evidence which is common to mankind, and muff appear to every perfon who carefully attends to it. Let us then, firft of all, confider the fl:ate and conffitution of the human na- ture as in fa& we find it, abftraéting from any inquiry concerning the author of it, and his defigns and condut towards us. Every ones experience makes him fenfible of plea - lure and pain, or of happinefs and mifery, of both which we all of us partake in fome degree. It is almoft as plain, that both en- joyments and fufferings are of different kinds; and the molt general and important diftinc- tion is into mental and bodily. Who Both not
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