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Show - , ,-_,\_, ‘ A REVIEW,and CONCLU SION. \X Rom the contrariety of for of the Mind, one to another, asm: of the Naturall Faculties ther , and from their refere alfo of one Palfion to anonce to Converfation, there .has been an argument taken, to inferre an impoflibility that any one man ihould be fulfici ent duty. The Severity of Judgme ly dil'pofed to all forts of Civill rious, and unapt to pardon thent, they fay, makes men Cenibmen: and on the other fide, Cel Errours and Infirmities of other leffe [teddy than is neceffary', to erity ot‘Fancy,maltes the thoughts dilcern exactly between Right and Wrong. Again, in all Deliberat faculty of folid Reaibning, is necions, and in all Pleadings, the elfary: for without it, the Refolutions of men are ralh, and their Sentences unjult: and yet if there be nor powerfull Eloquence , which rocuteth attention and Confent, the efl‘efl of Reafonwil trary Faculties; the former bei lbe littfe. Butthele are conTruth, the other upon Opinionsng grounded upon principles of and upon the Palfions and Inte already received, true, or Ellie; refis of men, which are ditfcrent, and mutab'le. And amongfl the Pallions, Courage, (by which I mean the Contemp t of WOUnds, and violent Death) enclineth men to private Revenges, and loinetimes to ende avourthe unletling of the Publique Peac e : And Tmoranfflefsh manytimes dilpoleth to the dcfertion of the Publique DefenceBoth thci'e they thy c.1nn0t {14nd togetherin the fame perfon. . . . And to conlider the Contrarietyofmen s Opinions, and Manners in generall, It is they lay, impoifibl e to entertain .tconflantCivill Amity with all tliole, with who m the" Biilinefle of the world conflrains us to convert}: Which Buli ncfle , conlillcth almolt in nothing elfe but a perpetuall contenti on for Honor, Riches, and Authority. TowhichI anfwer, that thefe areindecdore ag difficulties, but C‘ not Iinpoflibilities : For by Education, and Dilcipline, they may c, andare fometimes reconciled. judgment have lace in the fame man; but by turnes; as, and Fancy may aimed? at requireth. As the Il‘raelitesin Egyp the end which he t, were fomcrimes laflcnecl to their labour of making Brick s, and other tiineswerc ranging abroad to gather Straw: So alto may the jud'ement ometimes be fixed upon one certain Confidention, andt ie I‘JnCy at another time wandring about the world. So alio Reafon, and eloq uence, (though n0t perhaps in the all Seiences, yet in the Morall ) may itand very well togetNatur her. For whcrcftfivcr Ddd WC |