sure to complain of the Administrations of Providence, Charge it with Mismatching Fortune, and Merit, and misapplying Rewards and Punishments : He'l often see Ill People furnish'd with Materials for Pleasure, and Regaled with the Relish of it : And good Men harrass'd and deprest, and meeting with nothing but Misfortune. To go on : He that's afraid of Pain, or Affliction; will be afraid of something that will always be in the World; but to be thus uneasie at the Appointments of Providence, is a failure in Reverence, and Respect. On the other hand ; He that's violent in the pursuit of Pleasure, won't stick to turn Villain for the Purchase : And is not this plainly , an Ungracious , and an Ungodly Humour ? To set the Matter Right, where the Allowance of God is equally clear ; as it is with Regard to Prosperity, and Adversity : For had he not approved both these Conditions, He would never have made them: I say where the Good Liking of Heaven is equally clear, Ours ought to be so too : Because we ought to follow the Guidance of Nature , and the Sense of the Deity. That Man therefore that does not Comply with Providence in the same Indifference of Notion, with respect to Pleasure,
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