PART III, ofgracious 11ffétlions. 173 it to think of That which is truly lovely,and naturally fuggefts it; as a healtl!y Taffe and Appetite naturallyfuggefts the Idea of it's proper Objedf. Thus a holy Perfon is led by the Spirit, as he is inftruéed and led by his holy Taffe, and Difpofition of Heart ; whereby, in the lively Excercife of Grace, he eafily diftinguifhes Good and Evil, and knows at once, what is a fuitable amiable Behaviour towards God; and towardsMan, in this Cafe and the other ; and judges what is right, as it were fpontaneoufly, and of himfelf, without a particular De- duEtion, by any other Arguments than the Beauty that is Peen, and Goodnefs that is tatted. Thus Chriff blames the Pharifees, that they didnot, even of their own felves, judge what was right, Without needing Miracles to prove-it, Lake 12. 57. The Apoftle feems plainly to have Refpe& to this Way of judging offpiritual Beauty,. in Rom. 12. 2. Be ye transformed by the Renewing ofyour Mind, that ye may prove what is that good, andpe.rfecî, andacceptable Will of God. There is fuch a Thing as good fafie of natural Beauty, ( which learned Men often fpeak of) that is exercifed about temporal Things, in judging of them ; as about the Juftnefs of a Speech, the Goodnefs ofStyle, the Beauty of a Poem, the Gracefulnefs of Deportment, &c. A late great Philofopher of ourNation, writes thus upon it ; EI " To cc have a Tajie, is to give Things their real Value, to be touch'd cc with the Good, to be fhock'd with the Ill ; not to be dazzled with cc falle Luftrés, but in Spight of all Colours, and everyThing that cc might deceive or metre, to judge foundly. Tafie and yudgment cc then, fhould be the fame Thing; and yet 'tis eafy to difcern a cc Difference. The 'judgment forms it's Opinions from Refleaion " The Reafon on this Occafion fetches a Kind of Circuit, to arrive cc at it's End ; it fuppofes Principles, it draws Confequences, and it cc judges ; but not without a thorough Knowledge of the Cafe ; fo cc that after it has pronounced, it is ready to render a Reafon of it's " Decrees. Good Tafie obferves none of thofe Formalities; e'er it is has Time to confult, it has taken it's Side ; as foon as ever the cc Obje& is prefented it, the Imprefúon is made, the Sentiment cc formed, afk no more of it. As the Ear is wounded with a harfh cc Sound, as the Smell is footh'd with an agreable Odour, before: cc ever the Reafon have meddled with thofe Objcas to judge of it them, fo the Tafie opens itfelf at once, and prevents all Refleddon. " They may come afterwards to confirm it, and difcover the fecret Cc Reafons of it's Condut ;. but it was not in it's Power to wait for . cc them. Frequently it happens not to know them at all, and what cc Pains fever it ufes, cannot difcover what it was determin'd it to cc think as it did. This Condu& is very different from That the IL Chambers's Diaionary, under the Word TA.sTE, c c Yudgmen t
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