A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

To this several things may be said, more Plausibly, Answ. than Satisfactorily, if you but throughly consider the Allegations: but to avoid Tediousness I'll mix the pretended, and real causes.

To this several things may be said, more Plausibly, Answ. than Satisfactorily, if you but throughly consider the Allegations: but to avoid Tediousness I'l mix the pretended, and real causes.

There's a Necessity of these things, while we are in the World, and §1we need variety of them, more than for present use: e. g. Childhood and Age are helpless, and need greater supplies: there's difference between Sickness and Health, and we must provide for both, and is not this very plausible? Whereas, did but Persons consider, how many Superfluities shroud themselves under the wing of Necessaries, and how Persons love to be at their own finding, rather than Gods, though there's no comparison between them; as Israel, Numb. 11.5. We Remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the Cucumbers, and the Melons, and the Leeks, and the Onions, and the Garlic; and now our Soul is dried away, there is nothing at all besides this Manna before our Eyes. They preferred the Food which the Egyptians gave their Slaves, before Manna, which if the Inhabitants of the upper World needed food, were fit for them. We would not only have Mercies, but we would be humoured in the Circumstances of 'em: Rachel must presently have Children, or she'll be weary of her Life; whereas she might have learnt, from her own Husband, and Grand-father, that those Children of patiently believing Parents, were the greatest Blessings, that came from teeming Prayers and Barren Wombs; but she considers not this, she must have Children, or dye: Well, God so far gratifies her, she shall have Children, but that which she reckoned, would be the greatest Comfort of her Life, proved to be her death.

There's a Necessity of these things, while we are in the World, and