hoppers; but being amongst them, make them my common viands; and I find they agree with my ftomach as well as theirs. I could digest a falad gathered in a churchyard, as well as in a garden. I cannot start at the prefence of a ferpent, fcorpion, lizard, or falamander: at the fight of a toad, or viper, I find in me no defire to take up a stone to deftroy them. I feel not in myself thofe common antipathies that I can difcover in others: Those national repugnances + do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch; but where I find their actions in balance with my countrymens, I honour, love, and embrace them in the fame degree. I was born in the eighth climate, but seems to be framed for, and conftellated unto all: I am no plant that will not profper out of a garden. All places, all airs make + Cuddie Headrigg was not sure could cultivate any fields but there Tullistudlym

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unto me one country; I am in England every where, and under any meridian; I have been fhipwreckt, yet am not in enmity with the fea or winds; I can study, play, reveur fleep in a tempeft. In brief, I am aPav verfe from nothing; my confcience Description of the hap Would give me the lye if I fhould tranfay I abfolutely deteft or hate any quillity effence but the devil, or fo at least g he eyoyabhor any thing but that we might du come to compofition. If there iring the dutan be anything among those comваши mon objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reafon, virtue and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monftrofity, which taken afunder feem men, and the reafonable creatures of God; but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monftrofity more prodigious than Hydra: it is no breach of charity to call these fools; it is the style all holy writers have afforded:

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afforded them, fet down by Solomon in canonical fcripture, and a point of our faith to believe fo. Neither in the name of multitude do I only include the bafe and meaner fort of people; there is a rabble even amongst the gentry, a fort of plebeian heads, whofe fancy moves with the fame wheel as thefe; men in the fame level with mechanicks, tho' their fortunes do fomewhat gild their infirmities, and their purfes compound for their follies. But as in cafting account, three or four men together come fhort in respect of one man placed · by himself below them; fo neither are a troop of thefe ignorant Dorados, of that true esteem and value, as many a forlorn perfon, whose condition doth place him below their feet. Let us fpeak like politicians, there is a nobility without heraldry, a natural dignity, whereby one man is ranked with ano- | I See now. Org. p. 247 ther, h

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ther, another filed before him, according to the quality of his defert, and pre-eminence of his good parts. Though the corruption of thefe times, and the bias of present practice wheel another way, thus it was in the firft and primitive commonwealths, and is yet in the integrity and cradle of well-ordered polities, till corruption getting ground, ruder defires labouring after that which wifer confiderations contemn, every one had a liberty to amafs and heap up riches, and thefe a license or faculty to do or purchase any thing.

SECT. II.

This general and indifferent temper of mine, doth more nearly dif pose me to this noble, virtue. It is a happiness to be born and framed unto virtue, and to grow up from the feeds of nature, rather than the inoculation and forced

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graffs of education; yet if we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralifts; divinity will still call us Heathens. Therefore this great work of charity, must have other motives, ends and impulfions: I give no alms to fatisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purfe for his fake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetorick of his own miferies, to content mine own commiferating difpofition, for this is ftill but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to paffion than reafon. He that relieves another upon the bare suggestion and bowels of pity, doth not this fo much for his fake, as for his own for by compaffion we make another's mifery our own, in commiserating disposition was given and 1 God for this very purpose; and must we placing to God, in 20 far as it brow the mi