·part II~ :A'S4int'lr 4 'PrNte; rfl7 4. Man is capableof Knowing that certain D~tties are to be · performed in order to the Pleafing of hi& Lord, and 'What thofe Duties are: which would not be, if we were not capable of ·Pleafing him, and fo of being happy in him. · 5. Man is made eapable ofDefiring afccr the ·E verlafting L@V6 · ofGod; and that above all things in lhis world. . ~AndGod hath not made fuch Defires in vain. . · , 6. Man is capable of Loving c;odas an ObjeCt Evcrlafiingly to he enjQyed, and that above all other thing. 7. Man alfo is capable of referring all the creatures llntfJ God, and ufi~g all things but as Me~n.s to t~is E'!lerlafting end. ~bus do beltevet;S , And furely all thts 1s not mvam. · 8. 'Man !saCreatmre that cannot regularly be moved accord– ing to-his nature, to the performance of his Duty to God and Man, unlefs it be by Motives fetcht from the life to come. Take ()ffthat poife, ·and all his orderly motion witl foon cea[e. NG– thing below fuch Everla{iing thi~tg:,s are fit or fuffic1ent M~rttlly to govern him, and caufc him to live as man :fhould live! · 9· He is poffelfed of aC!u~tl fears of E-ver/afling Punifoment,' and thall never perfectly overcome th·efe fears by his greatcit Unbelief. I o. He is capable of fetching his highd1: PleA{ures from the fare-thoughts of Everlaftint, Happinefs, . and receiving from hence his em:ouragement in well doing and foretafi of the Re– ward. Now this being the Natural frame of man, as is pafl: denyal (when Bmtes have no fuch thing at all,) let Reafon judge whether the God of Nature have made this nature of man invain that we fee hath fuited every other creature to its ufe: our horfes to carry us, and our Ox to draw for us, and the earth to ~ear its feveral fnaits for them and us ! And hath he mifiaken only 'n the making of man, and ~one beyond his own lnte'ntion, and :fittedhim for t.hofe ufes and enjoymenrs that he was never meant for ~ Thefe-~t~ not Imputations to be cafi upon the mofi wif~ and grac1ous God. . fl.!!_er. I o. Moreover I demand of you, what is the End of m~n (lfJ~ all thefe fPecial jlflculties, if there be nrJ life fer him after thu? Ettber he bath an End which he is to inte'nd~ or he hath nom. If none, then he bath mthing to do in the werld. For all acbons of man arenothing elfe bur the Intending of fome End~ T - and
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