II -a 3 z Men tempted to Evil by their own LuJts, S ER M, with a keen delire of hurting the injurious, II. All thefe, when entertained and refling in d- -v-- -r the mind, break its compofure, marr its enjoyments, unfit it for its belt exercifes, and frequently precipitate men into thefe actions and courfes which their own confci. ences difapprove. We may farther obferve, that befídes the original affeêtions, appetites, and paffions, planted in our natures of the lower kind, and relating only to the animal life, and the prefent outward Bate of things, whence temptations arife, luft alto comprehendeth fecondary defires, and which may be faid to be contrafted, being occafioned by ob- fervation, experience, and cuftom. And the principal objects of them are thofe things which we find, or imagine, to be the means of gratifying our original delires, or which are firppofed to have fome conneftion with the objets of our original affections. For example, as wealth and power are known to afford various enjoyments, and the more plentiful means of gratifying all the defires of men, both of the private and public, the virtuous and the fenfual kind, therefore are they the obje&s of defires, which become ítrong tufts, whereby multitudes are drawn away and enticed to evil. To conclude this head,
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