:p'art It; :A 'S11J'nt l.r 4Brute; · - 139 1 find to d.o in the world ! What ihonld I do with my Reafon and Knewledge, or any faculty above a bcafr, if I had no higher , a work and end thenbeajh ! Verily, if I had lofr the Hopes of another life, I knew not what to do with my. felf .i.n the wor!d ! but tnufl: become fome other creature , andhve forne other kmd of life, then now I live. . . Qe.er. II. Moreover, I de'fire you to confider, Whether it !?e. "credible to a man of Reafen , that God made hu nob/eft creature in this world With aN ature that fhould be a Necefary Mi[erJ and Yexarion to it{elf abo•r.;.i 11/1 the mifery of thebafer creatures ? and that the wifer ~ny m.cn u, the more miferable be •ufl needs be? This is not credible. Yet thus would it be, if there were no . life but this. ' For 1. the KnoWledge that man bath of a fuperiour ··Good (which beafu have not) wouldT antali:<:..e him and tornunt him : To k...now it, and mufi not p11rt11k.§ of it, is to be ufed as a Horfe that is tyed near his Provender , which he mufi not reach. 2. The Love, andDefirn, and HopeJ, that lbefor,e defcribed ,' would all be our Ye."':ation. To L·ove and Dtfire, d1a't which we · cannot attain, and thatwhh the chief of eur Affettio.ns, is bot to make us rniferable by vertue. · 3. To ufeall thofe Means,and do theDutieJ before-mention~ ed-in vain, when Vfe are not ·capable of the End, is bu-t ·to roll at · Sifiphm fione, and to be made to wa£h Blackamores 1 or eo lilt ·a bottomlefs tub? ' 4· No cr~arurebere.but man. hath FtarJ of any mifery. afte-r · death~ and therefore none: would be herefo miferable. There i·s no~~fidel but muft confefs, that for eug'ht hr ftnows there may/;{ a life of puni]bment for the 'WickJd• .And rhis [may be J will breed - rnoreftiar.r in a confidcrareman, thenDeath it feU alone coald d~ . . . . . ~· . , · 5. Or if there were no Fe(l,:r of that, yet Man hath ReA/on ·to_ think, btfore~h<lln~ of his DeP~th, and to think of his abode in Dark:: ~efs, wh.ich ,BuefJs have Ltbt. To think._of b~ing turned to afl:ink– mg ~arnon, and to a clod, .and fo .com:iquing for ever , without · ~ny _Hope of aRefurredion, would be matter for continual hor- · rour to a confidering man, which Brutes are not molefl: ed wi th. Andwife mm that can fore· fee, would be tormented more rhen fo(}/s. All this is incredible, that God fhould make his nob/er·crfa– tur~ to be NatHrally mofi miferable ; and give him Knrnfledgt T . .
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