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a State of Moral obligation. Now if a Parent, Friend, or Benefactor should be reduc'd to want, & yt. we are in a situation to give them instant assistance & relief; to what conduct are we oblig'd? What will nature ins such an instance require of us? why She will command us & tell us, ye. Immediate relief ought to be given. Again if anything has been deposited into own hands, & some time after reclaim'd by ye. owner, we must undoubtedly feel deletion yt. we are /deletion addition ourselves /addition forc'd to restore it. If we acted differently in either of these cases, we should detest ourselves as having done, & deletionas having unclear /deletion addition beneath ye. dignity /addition of our nature. but if we have conducted ourselves rightly in these deletion unclear /deletion addition instances /addition we are happy & pleas'd with ourselves.

To describe therefore what we cannot rightly define a State of Moral obligation is ye State where a Creature ye. has such powers, affections, & senses as man, should he refuse to fulfill it, would condemn himself, & think other ought also to condemn him; but on complying with it, would approve, & expect others to approve his conduct.

We call him who is in such a State a Moral Agent, & as man's struture & connections often subject him to Moral obligation, we conclude him a moral Agent; But as in frenzie or natural functions he acts without choise or affection, as in cases of compulsion or Necessity, therefore ^ addition to name an /addition deletion call yt /deletion action Moral, yt. is approvable or blameable, it must be done from affection & choise, then a morally good action is to fulfill a Moral Obligation by choise & willingly, & ^ addition an immoral /addition deletion immorally /deletion action, is ye. violating a moral obligation on purpose.

'Tis by a series of actions & not by one dingle one yt. a character is constituted, & by a series of Affections & ^ addition underline not simply /underline /addition by one, yt. a temper is constituted