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it, but they are as different from it, as colours are from sounds. By reflection we find ye. relations between things, & ye. favours or deposists we have receiv'd, ye. different circumstances of yt. case are either matters of fact or of Experience; but some inward organ or power, or whatever You please to call it, perceives, by unclear of instantaneous Sympathy , before ye. cool deductions of reason, & independent of deletion proper /deletion ^ addition previous /addition instruction, art, or Volition, ye. moral Harmony, ye. irresistible charms of Moral obligation, which instantly interests ye. correspondent passions, & forces us to fulfil its deletion al /deletion awful dictates

We need not fear any danger will a cerse from ye. siftness of its decisions, nor deletion apprehend /deletion addition be in a terrous /addition because it looks ^ addition underline like /underline /addition & has been call'd instinct. Should we not greatly disapprove of ye. man yt. would take time to deliberate whether he should assist a distress'd Parent, feed a starving Neighbour, or restore what he was entrusted with? Should we not look on him as a knave, & without feelings? but there are cases where it deposits his sword with us in a frenzy or Melancholy comes & demands it, out of reason & prudence we ought not at yt. time to restore it, least he should destroy himself or others.

It has been objected to this Moral obligation yt. it is an instinct, or necessary determination of our nature; but are not ye. perception & determination of reason equally necessary? Does not every intuitive judgment deletion necess [/deletion]] addition of course /addition eators our addition assent, /addition deletion judgement /deletion when ye. agreement or disagreement of ye. ideas ^ addition underline compar'd /underline /addition is perceiv'd? Instinct having been consider'd are relative only to bodily