State 11. 6thly, Is not every one by nature difcontel'lt with his ~prefent lot in the world, or with fome ooe thing or other ia . it? . This alfo was Adam's t:afe,., Gen. iii. 5.6. Some one thint; is always milling; fo that ma.n is a creatur-e given te cha11ges. An.d if ·any doubt of this, let them Iook·over .all their enjoyments ; and after a review of them, Jillen to their own hear~s, and they will hear 'a fecret murmuring for want of fomethi.ng; tho' perhaps~ if they con!ider,ed the matter aright, they would fee that it is better for them, to want, than to have that fomething. Since the hearts of our _ :fidt paren...ts flew out at their eyes, on the,forbidden fruit; and a night of darknefs was thereby brough-t on the world; their pofterity have a natural difeafe, which Solomon calls, The wandringofthe dejire, or as the word is; ( 'Thruwalking ~.fthe foul) Eccl. vi. 9. This is a fort of adiabolical tr"aoce, wherein the foul traverfe'th the world; .feeds itfelf with a thoufand airy nothings; fnatcheth at this and ·the other created excellency, in imagination and defir-e ; goes here -·and there, and every wbe&e, except whe1e it lhould g0. And the foul is never cured of this difeafe, tiH ov~rcoming grace bring it back~ to take up its everlafl:ing refi in God thro' Cbrilt: but till thi·s be, if man were fet again in pa· radife, the garden of the Lord; ail the pleafures there 'l would not keep .h,iiU from J.ooking, yea, and leaping over the hedge a fecond time. 7th!y, Are we not far ·more eafily imprelfed ·~nd influen– €ed •by evil counf<;Js -and examples, tfnn by thofe t~at are ,good! YQu will fee thi'S was the ruin of AdaNz, Gen .iii.6• . Evii example, to this day, is one of Satan'·s. mafier·devices ' to ruin men. And tho' we have by n'ah1re, more.,of the fox . than of the Iamb { yet that ill property fome obferve in ' this creature, "&iz.' That if one lamb {kip into a water, the reil: that are .near will fuddenly follow, may be obfe rved alfo-in the difpofition of the child reh of men; to whom .it · is very natural to embrace an evil way, becaufe they fee others upon itl before them. Ill .example has frequ{! ntly the force of a violent fheam, to qarry us over plain duty: , but efpeciaHy, if the example be given by thofe we bear a. great affecriop to; our affeCl:Joo, in that cafe, blinds our judgment; and what we wo'uld abhor in others, is. com– I>lied,wit~~~ to humour them._ And nothing is more piain,
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