Excerpt from Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions, Vol. 2 That Virtue and Vice do in their own Na tures tend' to make thefe Men happy, or mi ferable, who feverally praetife them, is a Pro pofition of undoubted (and, I am fure, by me undi'fputed) Truth; as far as it relates to moral Virtue or Vice, properly fo call'd that is, to thefe Meafures of Duty, which Natural Reafon, unenlighten'd by Revelation, pre ffcribes: For as to thofe Rules of Evangelical Perfefiion, in which we Chrifiians are obliged to excel; they are (fome of them) of IO ex a] ted a Nature, fo contrary to Flefh and Blood, and fo far above our ordinary Capacities and Powers, lthat if there were no other Life than this, I fee not how our Happinefs could ge nerally' be faid to conflfi: in the Pradtice of them. -and therefore when God made them Matter of firiet Duty to us;.he at the fame 'time animated us to Obedience (not only by alluring us of the extraordinary Afliftances of his good Spirit, but) by a clear Difcovery of a Future State of Rewards and Punilhments; whereas the ffew's, whoahad the Promifes of this Life only, had alfo, in proportion to thofe Promifes, a lower and lefs excellent Scheme of Duty propos'd to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.