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thou art hardly dealt with : Thou art not 

 fo forlorn , deititute , negle&ed a Wretch 

 as thou may'lt imagine. There is a great 

 Philofopher affirms, That there is no Man 

 born into thq World , and grown up to 

 years of difcretion, but hath received more 

 good at the hands of God. than evil, more 

 pleafure than pain ; though he overlooks 

 and confidets not the pleafure, as thinking 

 it due to hirh, but fixes too much upon the 

 pain, which i$ indeed due, and for the molt 

 part defer ved. And another great * Divine 

 faith thus, Supfofe all manner of evils and 

 afflictions, which are now promifcuoufly feat- 

 tered up and down in the world, whether 

 they concern Soul or Body ; Spiritual 'Blind- 

 nefs and Obduracy^ Toverty, Slavery, Re- 

 proach , Sicknefs, Tain, Maimednefs y 'De- 

 formity, &c. / fay, fufpofe all the fe were 

 to be distributed among Mankind, fo as eve- 

 ry one were to have an equal Jh are of them ; 

 would you be content to ft and to this diftri- 

 but ion ? I fuffofe there are not many per- 

 fons in this Nation in fo miferable and for- 

 lorn a condition^ that ufon ferious confede- 

 ration of the ffeclal advantages they do, or 

 may fartake of, above many other Millions 



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