323 áße Dattnenp 4i a Zibine 2tt> íbutel Chap. z 7, ity, and our duty is not compleat, unlefs it be referred i- - to his Glory who is the principle and patern of it. In fhort, the great Creator made Man for himfelf, and 'tis moltjuft thatas hisFavour is our fovereign happinefs,fo his Glory fhould be our fupreme end,without which no- thing is regular and truly beautiful. By thefe feveral inftances itappears how infufficient Philofophy is to di- red us in our principal duty, that refpeEts God. z, Philofophy was defeétive in its direEtions about moral duties, that refpeEt our felves or others. r . Philofophers were not fenfible of the firft inclina- tions to fin. They allow the diforder of the fenfitive ap- petite as innocent, till it padres to the fupreme part of the Soul, and induces it to deliberate or refolve upon moral actions. For they were ignorant ofthat Original and intimate pollution that cleaves to the Humane Na- ture; and becaufeour Faculties arenatural,they thought the firft motions to forbidden objects, that are univerfal in the belt as well as worft, to be natural defires,not the irregularities of lull. Accordingly all their Precepts reach no further than the Counfels ofthe Heart: But the defires and motions of the lower faculties, though very culpable, are left by them indifferent. So that 'tis evi- dent that many defilements and Rains are in their pur- gativeVertues. z.The Staicks not being able to reconcile the Paffions with Reafon,wholly renounced them. Their Philofophy is like the River in Thrace, Ovid. Met. -- modpotum faxea reddit fcera, pod tits inducitmarmora rebus. For by a fiction of fancy they turn their vertuous Perfon into a Statue, that feels neither the inclinations ofLove,nor averfions ofHatred; that is not toucht with, Joy
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