h, the

ill exus edu

ve, are

hey fee

erefore uct and

And we

erfenef

may be

with

tion of

s vice,

of thofe

petites

It is too apparent, that the education, particularly with res rals, is, in general, very much inftilling deeply into the minds ance on, and obligations to the grounding them in the fentimen virtue, which are the most imp education, their parents and pr content with giving them a ve view of these most important fi greater attention and regard is

and reverence of the Deity, are natural to human nature, when amiable and juft ideas of him have been inftilled and are imbibed. Inftances of difinterested generosity and goodness excite gratitude and affection to the benefactor, by whom fuch fervices are bestowed, and fuch goodness difplayed. These are the natural feelings and fentiments of humanity. And such sentiments naturally arise with refpect to the Deity, when he is exhibited to the mind in a proper light.

THE doctrine of man having loft his natural ability to practife virtue, and aptitude to religion, by the fall, appears to have no real foundation in the fcripturès. -They only reprefent man as fubject to temporal death by the fall, and not as thereby becoming incapable of religion, and prone only to the practice of vice and impiety. And Christ himself does not feem by any

means.

to be naturally polluted, and neceffarily prone to wickedness? Muft we not rather infer from thefe texts, that Chrift con fidered young children as innocent, harmlefs, and teachable; and, therefore, proper emblems of that mild, peaceable, innocent, and humble difpofition, which became the difciples of the blessed Jesust

be of THERE is no just reason for imagining, that thofe appetites and paffions, which are found in human nature, and which, when not properly reftrained and regulated, are the caufe of fin, are any confequence of the corruption of human nature. They do on the contrary appear, when under proper reftraints, to be very useful to mankind. And, indeed, exclufively of this, fomething of this kind appears to be neceffary to any creature while in a fate of proba tion:, for, without fomething within thema selves, which might in fome degree prompt

or