! 52 T/)e Duty and Pleafure. .fhould all confpire for the publick intereft, and fo eminently advance one another's \vdfare; tl;at n1agifhates fhould fo \vil– lingly undergo the trouble of governn1ent, and a heady and incon.Gdcrate Inultitude fh.ould be comnianded and overawed by a fingle n1an. Certainly it can be no other but that Cune God who flilleth the naije of the 7J.JirueJ, that can prevent or con1pofe tbe tumult! if the people. · l-Iitherto we have conG.det:_ed thofe in- · fiances of the divine bounty which relate ~to our tcn1poral concerns. But fure we were n1ade for fome higher and n1ore· excellent end, than to pafs a few n1onths or years in this w·orld, to eat, drink, fleep, and die. God hath dcfigned us for a 111ore lafting and durable life, and hath accordingly made greater provifions for it. He taketh .. care 6f our very bodies; but hath an infi– nitely greater regard to thofe fpiritual and im1nortal fubftances which he hath breath– ed into us. And here in all reafon we ought to b~gin with tha~ great and fuqda..: n1ental n1ercy, which is the root and fpring of all his other mercies towards the fouls of n1cn ; I mean, the incarnation and the ,.• death of his only begotten Son. But, alas! . -where are thofe affeCtions wherewith, that fuould
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