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God hath given to brute animals a certain law 

 whereby to govern themfelves, which is called 

 Inftind ; it being an inward implanted ten- 

 dency to particular adions, from which they 

 cannot ftray. This inftind, or inward force, ap- 

 pears to be ftronger in brutes than in the human 

 fpecies, and fupplies to them the defe6t of rea- 

 fon. Man hath an inftind alfo, but much 

 weaker than that in other animals: to make 

 up that want God hath given him a glimmering 

 of that heavenly light called Reafon. Now, as 

 man was defigned lord of this lower world, and 

 the pofleffion of every part thereof was given to 

 him, the inftind of brutes would not have been 

 fufficient -, nor would reafon itfelf have been 

 enough without fome inward appetites ; for 

 without inftinct his generation would probably 

 have foon been at an end ; and we fhould have 

 neglefted the fupport of our individual bodies, 

 had we only reafon, and not hunger to tell us, 

 that eating was neceffary to life. 



Reafon is our direflor when we change our 

 country from one extreme climate to ano- 

 ther : The Ruffian, though inclofed in houfes, 

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