On HE B. XI. 6. remedies which mly refiore them. By what Coudfel cloth the Swallow obferve the feaof its palfage 1 in the beginning of Autumn it takes its flight to a warmer Clunlte, and returns with the Sun again in the Spring. By what fore.fight cloth the Ant prepare Its fiore in Summer to prevent that enfuing Want which otherwife it would fuffer in Winter 1 Doth the Sun deliberate whether it fhall rife, and by dirfufing its beams, become rhe publick light of the World? or cloth a Fountain advife whether it fhall fiream forth in a fluent and liberal manner? even the actions of men which arc purely natural, are done without their direction: Nay, natural bodies will part with their .own property, and crofs their own inclination for an univerfal good; the air, a light and" nimble pody that does naturally afcend, yet for a general good, to prevent a breach in nature, it will defcend: And thofe things which have a natural oppofition, yet confiantly accord and ;,., !i ,1 joyn together to preferve the wh~le; certaialy th~n a Divine Spirit g.uides and directs IWC':r~~71f' , U them. If we fee an Army compofed of Ceveral Nanons, (between whom there are great "~• ". "•~ antipathies) yet march in rank and order, and with equal courage light for the fafety '"'~' ': ;;: of a Kingdom, we prefently conclude there is a wife General who thus uniteth them: ~· "".1 ; And is there not greater reafon to believe that a Soveraign Spirit governs the Hofi: of ~ ~f;:;:;, Heaven and earth, and unites them to maintain the peace of the World? To a!fert ~"' 9tclf /., that irrational creatures act for a general and unknown good, without the motion of a J~, hipher caufe, is equally unr~afonabl~, as t~ fay .a .curious ~id:ure is ~rawn by a Penlil ~~~do~.· 1. de without the hand of the Pamter wluch gu1des 1t 10 every !me accordmg to the Idea of his mind. We mull then of neceflity infer that thofe particular caufes which cannot con• duct themfelves, are directed by an univerfal caufe which cannot err; and thus we fee the whole World is an intire and continual Argument of God's Being and Attri• butes. , Secondly, The Cecond Argument is drawn from natural confcience, which is a Cubordinate God, and acts all things with refpect to a higher Tribunal; as St. Paul fpeaking of thofe vifible Teflimonies which God hath -exprefi to men in the 'Creation, faith, A{/. 14. 17. That he/eft not himfelfwithout a witnejs, giving them rain, fll!d fruitfulfea. ~;{ :vi~~efs~e b~~i~r~f.':tt~;n~v:v~ri' ~rn~0:o~Ccti~n~~t,~~~;~~~r~! ;~i~~~~fli:d' !g~~~ the lower order of beings, and made fenfible of the fupream Judge, to whofe Tribunal he is fubjcct; now confcience in its double work, as it accufes or excufes by turns up~ on good or bad Actions, proves there is a God. _ I. Natural confcience being clear and innocent, is the life-guard which fecures from fears ; vertuous perfons who have not offered violence to the light of confcience in times of danger, as in a fierce fiorm at Sea, or fearful Thunder at Land, when g~ilty fp11its are furprized with horrour, they are not liable to thofe fears, being wrapt up in their own innocency ; the reafon of their Cecurity proceeds from a belief that thofe terrible works of nature are ordered by an intelligent and righteous providence which P'"" D"~"'" ~;.;~:::;:~.~~:·~;. :~:::~::z::.~::·,t:~.·~~~::~·:d ·;t1. ;·t .. ua,, N••!"' m.{p.... ig•i '""r" •@it• dij~~:~:I~. ~. It gives courage and fupport to an innocent perfon; _;.hen ?pprefi and injured by the unnghteous; t_he. natural confc1ence fo long as 1t IS true to 1t felf by adhering to honef\ pnllc 1ple~, lt IS v1ctonou~ aga1~fi all attempts whatfoever; ji fraE/us iUahatur orhu ;_ 1f the we1ght of all the m1fenes 10 the world flwuld come rufhing upon him at once, 1t would bear up under them all, and !land unbroken in the midfi of thofe ruines · the fpirit of a man is of firength enough to fufiain all his infirmities ; as a fhip Jives i~ the rough ~eas, and floats above them, the waters being without it; fo a vertuous per- ~~url~~c~:~o~1!e~cl~~;y;~j hi~ ~~~~a~dd:~n~' ~h:i~~~fcf~:~!" ,~t~c~ur;. ~h:%~d~~ · 1\rength remain~ firm and ·unfhaken; yea, as thofe Rofes are ufually f\veetefi which· grow near fimkmg weeds ; fo the peace, joy, ana glory of a good confcienco is then moll fenfible, when a man is otherwife in the moll afflicted and oppreifed fiate ; now from whence proceeds th1s calmnefs and feremty, this v1gor and confiancy of fpi- ~~~f~~t from the apprehenlion of a ~upreme Judge, who at the !all will viadicate their · . ~. We ma~ clearly evidence there is a God! from the accufations of a guilty confcJ.en.ce; th1s ts that never ~rmg wo:m whtch tf a finner tr~ads o_n, it will.turn again; ~~~k~er~bi~h1 a~e~~c~J~;~~~~rJ~!c~e~~th~~t' ti':e~~n~~ ~·fi:i~":.re; ~n t\:1~ ~~~~iofosi~: tolerable are the fiings of it, that many have took Santluary'ill' a'grave, and run upon the
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