14.2 Of Temperance. SERM. the dire Lion of the mind; but there is alfo VI. in our conftitution an inward felf- confcious '-" -' principle, indued with , underflanding and other powers, which will not admit of matter or any 'óf its qualities into the idea of them : We find in ourfelves a great variety of capacities and affections which have very different ten- dencies, fuch as, reaf n, a power of perceiv- ing and inveftigating truth, of comparing things in order to difcover their various rela- tions, conntc ±ion, and dependencies, their agreement ordi.fagreenient. We have liberty, a power of chufing or determining ourfelves; we have appetites, which incline us to fenfiblé objeéts fuitable to the body, or the prefent animal fiate ; affe &ions to other beings, ac- cording to the qualities or motives of affec- tion which are apprehended to be in them. And ConJ ience, a power of judging our- felves, our own difpofitions and aétions ac- cording to the differences of moral good and evil, which our minds as neceffarily perceive as we difinguith light and darknefs by our eyes, or fweet and bitter by our tafte. Since there is fuch a variety in our compo- fition, there muff he fome government, elfe there can be no harmony, nor, indeed, happi- nefs. It cannot be that every power thould exert :.
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