r 1'3"5 A SAint er~ Brute; Pare I \ ' . difproportioned and difcompofed, as for the N~bler p¥trts to be only for the baflr. The Heavem that are over us, and all the vaft and mofr t::xcellent parts of the Cr('ation, have a ufe that is ~nfwe.rable to their excellency•. _God m~kes not cottages to be mhab1ted, and Pallaces and C1t1es to lte watt and defert eo no ufe. · Bm if you grant there u a'nother world proportionaby thus replenithed with creatures, you may ea!ily fee from thence a Prebability, that man fhall be cranflated thither. Why not the foul of man, as well as thofe fpirits .that in affumed foapu hwe made their appearances lilnto man? As all things ripen ro their .perfection, why thould it feem any more improbable that chc: foul fhall pafs hence into the world of fpirirs,. then tha.t the chicken fba\l come out of the {hell, and the infant out of .the wornbe, into fo wide and light a world as this, when before they were fimt up in a nar-row darknefs, and never heard nor knew any thing of that world, which they enter int? ? ·,.::. . .!l!.!!!r. 9· Doyou k._now why it u that God hath given m11tn that k_nowiedge , and free -will, a~dcapttcity t~ jerk._ ttnother life, whifh beafts ha1Je not, if he be intended for no other iife then 6ea.fts ! If G o Ibe no moft Wife. he is not God. If he he, then he rnaketh not foexcellent faculties as thefe in v.tin, but fitreth all his Crea·: tures to thei r ufes. Every work._m~tn will do fo by his \\?ork._. Why is a k._nifc rnade keen, but to cut with ? Andwhat are the wheels of your watch or clock made for, but to ihew you the hot~r of the day ? Look now into the whole frame of the foul of man~ ·ati.d judge by its aptitudewhat it is made for. . 1. Man iscapable of KnoWing that there u a God, and know– ing his ~Attributes, which Beafts are not ; becaufe they be not: made to enjoy him. _ · 2. M,If.l, is capable of k_no\ving huRelation to thu God, that he is our Crttttor,anawe hisCreatures; he our Lordand we his Own; he our Ruler-, and wehe Subjefts; he our BmefaElor, and we his Beni~ci..ries: And we are capable of_ Knowing ?u~ Duty ~n r-hefe fe~·eral Relations. And certamly all dus u not m V<1in. 3. Man is capable of J(nowing that the Everlafting Lo'Zie of God is that alone that can make him HapPJ: And why would God fbe\V him thi s, if hfwere not ·capable of enjoying it ? Rea– fon tells men ~h3t nathing here ca-n m~ke us Happy, and that God can do it_ 4 Man
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