2 3o The Living Temple. Part H. fite under the notion of moji comly and decent. Hath it been laid of a mortal Man, That it was as eafy to alter the Courfe of the Sun, as to turn him from the Path of Righteoufnefs ? We mutt fuppofe it of the eternal God equally im- poffible, that he fhouldbe diverted from, or ever omit to do, what is moltfeem. ly, becoming, andworthy ofhimfelf. In fuch things wherein he is pleafed to be our Patern, what we know to be our own Duty; we mutt conclude, is his Nature. We ought to be found neither in an unjntt 1ig1, or Omifgon, nor un- decent One; and he cannot. And if it belong to us to do what is good ; it more necefarily belongs to him, to do what is bell ; i. e. in all things that are any way capable of coming under a moral Confederation: For as in other Matters it is permitted to us to a& arbi trarily ; fo there is nothing hinders but he may msach more. Wherefore, it is not, hence, to be thought that, there. fore, it war necefary, this C.lniverfe, and every thing in it, Ihould have been imde as per 't, as they could be. M if we' our felves will make any thing for our own ufe, nothing obliges us to be fo verycurious about it, as that it may yr
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