The Blefednefs of the Peace makers. 38 t offices, contribute to their common fafety, S ER î as well as yield a common fatisfaEtion. We XIV. are in an imperfe& indigent ftate, and could not fubfift with any comfort without the afhifiance of each other : If any one would fuppofe the cafe of men living feperately, having no friendly intercourfe, how uncom- fortable muff fuch a condition be ? No man's hands could minifter fully to his neceflities ; how little of the conveniencies of life would any one then enjoy ? But enmity is yet worfe than living feparately; if every man were not only to expert no kindnefs or help of any fort from his fellow, but, on the contrary, his rage and fury, and in confequence of it were always liable to the invafion of his rights, even of his life itfelf; fuch a flate muff neceffarily be very unhappy. But the gracious parent of mankind hath provi- ded for the good of them all, by infpiring them with focial affetions, and preventing them with inftin &s, whereby they are de- termined to be ufeful to one another. They blafpheme the God of peace, and grofily belie the human confiitution, who would reprefent the ftate of nature as a ftate of war, wherein every individual governed wholly by felfifh inclinations bath no regard at all to the welfare of his neighbours. Upon that falfe
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