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IV. Final Causes of Our Moral Faculties of perception & Affection

Having taken a general deletion unclear /deletion addition view /addition of Man, his moral powers & connections, & on these form'd a Moral obligation, which deletion experience seems to confirm, /deletion addition seems to be confirm'd by experience, /addition to be agreable to reason, & approv'd by his most inward, & sacred senses. We will now examine more particularly ye. final causes of those deletion unclear /deletion addition springs, /addition which impel him to action, & of those clogs which restrain him from it. By this particular view, we shall be able to ^^^^^ addition pronounce concerning /addition deletion judgement /deletion their deletion unclear /deletion addition timess /addition to answer their End, in a creature of such capacities, deletion unclear /deletion such Wants, in such dangers, capable of such enjoyments; & shall be in a condition to judge of ye. End of his whole structure, its harmony with his state, & consequently of its obedience in answering ye. benevolent intentions of its Great Creator.

In taking this subject to pieces, it will not be necessary to examine every minute particle, but only ye. great parts, & to trace their use in ye. disposition of ye. whole.

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ye. great Creator has in all his Works mingl'd a variety of contrary principles; light, & darkness, pleasure & pain, god & evil; There are higher & lower powers, & many between ye. two extremes, these are differently plac'd, subject to each other, & all of them subordinate to ye. perfection of ye. whole. We may suppose man surrounded by ye. innumerable orders of beings, by his outward frame drawing to ye. material system, & by his inward connected with ye. deletion intellectualy /deletion addition more & of course /addition affected by yt. good & ill which spring from those