NOTE H. [xv] 



eagerness in pursuing them. It is possible with the best in 

 tentions in the world to bring much mischief both upon our 

 selves and others, by following headlong a blind zeal without 

 knowledge and without examining the expedience of our aims 

 or fitness of the measures taken to effect them. The province 

 of zeal lies in seasons of action, and its office is to carry us 

 through labour, paiu, difficulty, danger, to bear down the 

 force of any passion that shall obstruct our passage; but it 

 does not become us to act without considering why nor where 

 fore, and in seasons of deliberation the mind cannot be too 

 calm and unprejudiced, nor the mental eye too disengaged 

 from any single point, or too much at liberty to look upon 

 every object around and discern them in their proper colours.&quot; 



Again, 



&quot; Now none of your appetites, not even the best of them, can 

 be left entirely to themselves without extreme hazard : our very 

 hunger and thirst after righteousness, like that of meats and 

 drinks, if eagerly and fondly indulged, may rise to extrava 

 gant cravings, or hanker after unwholsesome food. 

 Dr. Johnson, says, 



&quot; That no change in religion has been made with that calm 

 ness, caution and moderation, which religion itself requires, 

 and which common prudence shews to be necessary inthe trans 

 action of any important office, every nation of the earth can 

 sufficiently attest. Rage has been called in to the assistance 

 of zeal, and destruction joined with reformation. Resolved 

 not to stop short, men have generally gone too far, and in 

 lopping- off superfluities, have wounded essentials.&quot; 



NOTE H. 



All change is attended with Evil. 



Bacon, says, &quot; As the birth of living creatures at first are 

 ill shapen, so are all innovations which are the birth of time.&quot; 

 Again, 



&quot; It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not 

 good, yet at least it is fit; and those things which have long 

 gone together, are, as it were confederate within themselves ; 



