VI 
preface. 
n.r If f to the Support of our Bein^, the 
Dehght of our Seufes, or the agreeable Exercife of the rational Faculty 
If there are fame few poifonous Ammah and Plants fatal to Man, theCe 
y Serve to he^ghten the contrary Bleffings ; fnce we could have no Idea 
of Benefits, were we tnfenfible of their Contraries-, and feeing God has ?iven 
us Reafon by which we are able to choofe the Good and avf id the Evfl, we 
fuffer vep little from the malignant Parts of the Creation. 
God hath given to brutal Animals a certain Law whereby to govern 
themfelves, which is caUed an InfiinB, it being an inward iniplantfd Ten- 
dency to particular ASlions, from which they cannot fir ay. This InflinSt or 
fZfIr ^PPy^^tftronger in Brutes thaiinthe humalsZZ 
S R^tfon. Man hath an InflinB alfo, bu) 
much weaker y that m other Animals, but to make up that TVant God 
h^h given him a glimmering of that heavenly Light, called Ref fan 
Now as Man was defign d Lord of this lower World, and the Po ffelfion 
of every Part thereof was given to him, the InfiinB of Brutes would not 
have beenfufficient, nor would Reafon itfelf have been enough without fh L 
yard Appetites - for without InJlinB his Generation would probabL 
have foon been at an end- and we Jhould have negle&ed the Sit port If 
oy individual Bodies, had we only Reafon, and not Hunger tofell u{ ■ 
that Eating was necejfary to Life. ^ 
^ Reafm is our direy, ^oen we change our Country from one ex 
treme Cbmauto amtier: The Ruffian M inchfid in clofe Heufe, fZh 
t‘^g‘“ion tf tk cold Air, md inrjnrdly laudjlh 
Stoves, when he ^ travels into Perfia and India, is direBed hy the fame 
Rpfon to fieep m the open Air, and on the Tops of Houfes, and to uCp 
M achwes to agitate and bring frefih Air about him-, andm the contraly 
^he Etlnopian, tho hts Lodging he in the open Plains and Deferts aid 
K vnthout yy Clothing, yet when he is brought to Europe, hi is Had to 
Jhreen himfetf in warm Houfes, and warm himfelf bv Fires JJ 
ZrtJBef ^ ^fting. Reafon giveth Man this PreJninenceZlZr 
L I of the World habitable 
im y Arts md Inventions to fcreen himfelf from the great Heats in 
^.he IF or Id, vvutc Animal can thus indifierently inhabit any Part of 
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