XII.

DISC. fallen and degraded to a renovated and comparatively dignified ftate.

The duties arising from this difpenfation are, thanksgiving to God proportionable to the abilities and opportunities with which each perfon is furnished, and diligence in making the utmost improvement poffible of the feveral talents with which he is entrusted. God is a moral Governor, and will do right: "Unto "whomsoever much is given, of him shall "much be required "."

Laftly, it is evident, that as man is formed for the exercise of reason, the invention of arts, the comforts of fociety, the observance of moral duties, the knowledge, practice, and rewards of religious fervice, he has abundant reafon on these accounts to glory in his pre-eminence above the brute creation, confcious to himself that his fpecies is peculiarly favoured by the goodness of his Creator:

St. Luke, xii. 48.

yet

XII.

yet at the fame time he has greater DISC.
reason for referring the ultimate glory to
the Lord, fince by Him, and through Him,
are either given or denied, either continued
or withdrawn, all the faculties which are
the ornaments of our nature.

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AN

APPENDIX;

CONTAINING

AUTHORITIES,

Which prove that Expectations of FUTURE EXISTENCE have prevailed universally throughout the World.