AN

ESSAY

ON

MAN

With fome

HUMOUROUS VERSES

on the

DEATH of Dean SWIFT
Written by Himself.

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MDCCXXXVI.

GODLEIN

-2APR1932

LIBRA

THE

CONTENTS.

14

EPISTLE I.

Of the NATURE and STATE of MAN, with respect to the UNIVERSE,

F Man in the Abftra&t. We can judge only

O with regard to our Syftem, being ignorant of the

Relations of Systems and Things, VERSE 17, &c. Man is not therefore to be deem'd Imperfect, but a Being fuited to his Place and Rank in the Creation, agreeable to the General Order of Things, and conformable to Ends and Relations to him unknown, 35,

. It is partly upon this Ignorance of future Events, and partly upon the Hope of a Future State, that all his Happiness in the Prefent depends, 73, &c. His Pride, in aiming at more Knowledge, and pretending to more Perfection, the Caufe of Error and Mifery, 120. The Impiety of putting himself in the Place of God, and judging of the Fitnefs, or Unfitnefs, Perfection, or Imperfection, Juftice, or Injuftice of His Difpenfations, 109. The Abfurdity of conceiting himself the Final Caufe of the Creation, or expecting that Perfection in the Moral World which is not in the Natural, 127 to r64. The Unreasonableness of his Complaints against Providence, while on the one Hand he demands the Perfections of the Angels, on the other, the bodily Qualifications of the Brutes, 165. That the Gift of Reafon alone countervails all the latter,

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