in the Soul of Man. I r nimal affeCtions confidered in themfelves, and as they are implanted it'l us by nature, are not vitious or blameable; nay, they . are inftances .- of the vvifdon1 of the creator furnifhing his creatures with fuch appetites as tend to the prefervation and welfare of their lives. Thcfe are inftead of a law un– to the brute be~fts, whereby they ·are di– rected towards the ends for which they were made. But man, being made for higher purpofes, and to. be guided by more . excellent laws, becoti1es guilty and crin1inal 1"hen he is fo far tranfported by the incli– nations of this lower life, as to violate his · duty, or negleCt (he higher and more noble · deGgns of h-ts creation. Our natural af– fections are not wholly to be extirpated and ddl:royed, but only to be n1odcra.ted and over ruled by a fuperior and n1ore ex– cdlcnt principle... In a word, the diffe– rence betwixt a religious and wicked man, is, that in the one the divine life bears fway, in the other the anin1al life cloth prevail. But it is flrangc to obf~, r~e unto what different courfes this J,atural T h• d:fFcrent principle will foln ." times carry tenc!e :cics of thofe who are wholly guided the natmal b . .J • J hie• .Y 1t, accnr~; t Pg to t 1e divers circUJ.nitances that concur with it to d ~ u~r-
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