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Show v A itfelf is far otherwife ; and all the Claims which Luxury, in the molt favourable View of it, can pollibly make, amount to no more than this,--; That for a {hort Time it doth promote a greater [ 33 ] Courfe of Things; nor was He that fhort‘~ fighted, or improvident, or malicious Being, as to make that to be our Duty, which is not upon hi 79" K Na ‘ [ 32 ] ...4 as a feverilh Circulation of the Blood in the natural Body ; a Circulation, which may givea J .) l) BUT 2dly. From what has been faid, we may gather this ufeful Conclulion, viz. That the Terms 24/an the World, or aéuflng it, or, in other Words, Temperance and Ema/5 are relative Expreflions, whofe Signification muft be aftertained by the Circumfiances of the Cafe. For what may be the firiétefi Temperance in one tranfient Flow of Spirits, and may raife a falfc wwwummvri" Fire fora little while, but is fure of bringing Man, may neverthelefs become a great Excefs in another; and both the ufing this World, and u-mhuiunm, on afterwards a general Weaknefs and Debility, and mud prove fatal, if not corre€ted in Time. the abuling it, muff refer to the refpeétive Con- l" Indeed there is fomething extravagant, if not 'mpious in the Suppolition, that Morality and Policy, when rightly defined, and properly un- ) fiitution, Circumf'tance, Age, or Condition, of this or that particular Individual. THUS, for Example, he who ufes this World prOperly, and as a wife and good Man ought to derltood, {hould be at Variance with each other. do, is he who adjufis his Enjoyments by the For what an Idea muli: this give us of the Divine Being? What a firange Conf'titution of the following Standard, "viz. Ifi, When his EX- pences are brought within his Income :---2dly, World would that have been, had it been mewhen he makes a decent and adequate Provilion cefiary that our Duty and our Interel't fhould always clalh P Nay, that in order to do the mOfi l g. Good to Mankind, by feeding and fupporting the greatelt Numbers of God's rational Crea- for his Family and Dependents :---3dly, when he lays by for Contingencies :---+th‘ly, when he obliges himfelf to be a good (Economili, in tures, we muf't be dilobedient to the Laws of order to be the better able to provide for the Neceflities of the Poor :---5thly, when he in- the Creator ?---No : Our gracious Creator and dulges himfelf in no Gratifications, which may Wife moral Governor hath not f0 ordered the injure either the Health of his Body, or the Courfe asE Fa- ‘1' . ‘ V s :3]!!! L" n our Interel't likewife. vv .le. the whole, even as to the Affairs of this Vorld, Demand for the ornamental Parts of Furniture, Drel‘s, and Equipage, than in Prudence there ought to have been. A mighty Advantage truly! Much to be boaf'ted of! and much to be defired ! For this brifk temporary Circulation of Induf'try in the Body politic is jult the fame |