but affecting Independency, and departing from pure Love, naked Faith and universal Resig|nation to infinite Perfection, they gradually sunk into Selfishness, Propriety and inordinate Love of the Creatures; and instead of being govern'd absolutely in all things by the Provi|dence, Influences, Impulses and Suggestions of the Eternal Spirit, they affected to be govern'd by their own natural Spirits, and selfish and narrow Views and Prejudices, and became, as it were, independent, un|guarded, and unrestrain'd Thinkers and Actors, prying into and determining in all Matters whatsoever; and instead of being resign'd to the universal Reason and sovereign Will and Order of Divine Providence, found Fault with, criticis'd, grumbled at, and blasphem'd the Conduct and Oeconomy of infinite Wisdom, and gradually departed from pure Love, naked Faith, and Trust, and universal Resignation, the sole Means to preserve them in the Perfec|tion of their dependent State, and in Simila|rity to his moral Attributes; and so fell from the perfect Happiness of their Rank and deri|vative Being; Self, spurious Self, became tran|substantiated into their thus deprav'd Natures.§. 16. WHEN human Nature had thus lapsed, by affecting Independence, and desire|ing to govern itself by its own natural Spirit solely, and wallowing in the Objects of Sense, and swallow'd in Creature-pleasures, it being 0