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The MORAL.
AS Providence has allotted every Creature its respective Office, or Duty, to Exercise its Powers and Facul∣ties upon: So Man (the Nobler of all others) more especially is Commanded to Work and Labour with his own Hands, to feed his Mouth. He is not enjoyned to seek after more than is sufficient for himself and Family, and occasional Acts of Charity; nor allow'd to live in Idleness, till what has been complicated up by the Confluence of Heaven's Bles∣sings, is Exhausted through Riot and Excess. Nature in it self is not Extra∣vagant, but Generous and Liberal; but, through Speculation, it is Corrupt and Degenerate: Lust cannot be without Sight; whence it comes, that the Passi∣ons are set to Work, so soon as the Opticks inspect a Beauty: From whence I infer, That the Simple will not La∣bour for Necessaries, any longer than they can form the least Idea of Sub∣stance, or forc'd to by Acts of Com∣pulsion.