NEW JERSEY COLLEGE LIBRARY THE WORKS Of the late REVEREND Mr ROBERT RICCALTOUN, Minister of the Gospel at Hobkirk. IN THREE VOLUME S. NEVER BEFORE PRINTED. VOLUME I. CONTAINING Effays on HUMAN NATURE, AND Effays on feveral of the Doctrines, of R E VELATION. EDINBURGH: Printed by A. MURRAY & J. COCHRAN. Sold, at Edinburgh, by J. DICKSON, and other bookfellers; and at London by E. & C. DILLY, and A. BELL. MDCCLXXI. CONTENTS. 111 Effays on HUMAN NATURE. Pag. Eff.I. Of Happiness and Perfection in general, abfolute and limited, Eff. II. Of the Human Conftitution, and Pag, 8. The character of the Deity as Crea- tor, and the state of the creature 9. Certain truths current in the world, ERRA TU M. p. 46. lin. 13. for fhould read may not ESSAYS Ο Ν HUMAN NATURE. ESSAY I. Of Happiness and Perfection in general, abfolute and limited. H APPINESS and PERFECTION are words of great fignificancy : They are in every body's mouth, but understood by very few. Every man has fome pretenfions to the latter, and profeffes to be in pursuit of the former; and certainly is fo: but such different roads are taken, and these so wildly inconfiftent, that one may with great certainty conclude, that most part know not what they are doing. The world, both philofophers and vulgar, seem to have been always agreed in the thing, however they differed in the expreffion, that happiness is fomething VOL. I. A near |