(ix) THE CONTENTS. EPISTLE I Of the Nature and State of Man, with respect to the UNIVERSE. F Man in the abstract, That we can judge only with regard to our own fyftem, being ignorant of the relations of fyftems and things, ver. 17, &c. scicles That Man is not to be deemed imperfect, but a Being paited to his place and rank in the creation, agreeable to the general Order of Things, and conformable to Ends and Relations to himunknown, ver. 33 &c. That it is partly upon his Ignorance of future events, and partly upon the Hope of a future ftate, that all his Happiness in the prefent depends, ver. 77, &c. sheven →→ The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretend- The unreasonableness of his complaints against Provi- dence, while, on the one hand, he demands the Per- fections of the Angels; and, on the other, the bodily qualification of the Brutes; though to possess any of the fenfitive faculties in a higher degree, would ren- That throughout the whole vifible world, an uni- mental faculties is obferved, which causes a sub- ordination of creature to creature, and of all crea- tures to Man. The gradation of fenfe, instinct, thought, reflection, reason; that Reafon alone countervails all the other faculties, How much farther this order and fubordination of living creatures may extend, above and below us; ту ver. 259 The extravagance, madness and pride of such a de- THE bufinefs of Man not to pry into God, but Its providential Use, in fixing our Principle, and ver. 175. Virtue and Vice joined in our mixed Nature; the ver 195, &c. In every ftate, and every age of life, ver. 271, &c. And in the Forms of Society, Origin of Political Societies, Origin of Monarchy, Patriarchal government, ver. 179. ver. 199. ver. 210. ver, 216. |