THE DIGNITY O F HUMAN NATURE. O R, A brief Account of the certain and established Means for attaining the true End of our Exiftence. IN FOUR BOOK S. I. Of PRUDENCE. II. Of KNOWLEDGE. III. Of VIRTUE. IV. Of REVEALED RELIGION. A NEW EDITION. By J. B. MASTER of an ACADEMY at Newington-Green, Middlefex. Qui fe ipfe norit, intelliget fe habere aliquid Divinum, femperque et fentiet et faciet aliquid tanto munere dignum. VOL. II. LONDON, Cic. Printed for J. JOHNSON and J. PAYNE, in Pater-nofter-row ; and T. CADELL, in The Strand. MDCCLXVII. THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE. BOOK III. Of VIRTU E. INTRODUCTION. S the human species are to exift in two A different ftates, an embodied, and a fpi ritual; a mortal life on earth, and an immortal hereafter; it was to be expected, that there should be certain peculiar requifites for the dignity of each of the two different ftates refpectively; and that, at the fame time; there fhould be fuch an analogy between that part of the human existence, which was to be before death, and that which was to be after it, as fhould be fuitable to different parts of the fame scheme; fo that the latter should appear to be the sequel of the former, making in the whole the complete exiftence of the creature, beginning with the enVOL. II. B trance 4 |