in all Circumflances ìllúflraíed. 269 very frame of our nature it be not ill with S E R the wicked, and confequently well with XI. the righteous. It is true in the prefent con - `"-Y"" dition of being, both the joy of a felf -ap- proving, and the torment of a felf-con- demning confcience, are in fome degree abated by the cares, the bufinefs, and amufe- ments of life (when animal nature (hall ceafe, and the union of the mind with fleíh and blood fhall be diffolved, they will then be felt in a more intenfe degree than we can now comprehend) but experience doth con- vince fome, and a careful attention will con- vince every man, that the one is the greatefl felicity, and the other the greateft mifery of our nature. The truth of what has been afferted, is univerfally acknowledged in thofe inflan- ces, which are the moll perfe l in their kind : A very eminently good man, is not only the obje ± of the higheft veneration and efteem to others, but believed to be the happiefl in himfelf; and a complete immo- ral ¡late is own'd to be miferable ; but in lower degrees, which are the moll common among mankind, the advantage or difadvan- tage is not fo fenfibly felt, and the differ- ence is flightly pafs'd over as of little con - fideration,
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