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hand_n	body_n	eye_n	foot_n	6,516	5	6.8863	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44418	A sermon preach'd before the King at Kensington, Sunday, Jan. 20. 1695 by Geo. Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2709; ESTC R228924	11,718	30

Man we suppose too that it may be much Opprest and in some few it may be well-nigh Extinguisht What was begun in Adam may be perfected by his Sons and the original Bent of our Constitution weaken'd at first by Him at last wholly destroy'd by Us. For these Inclinations of our Rational part to Good move not in us necessarily nor act irresistibly as those of other Animals they are accompanied with a freedom of the Will which should Direct but may Overrule For that freedom of Choice given to Man may check and divest our very Natural desires may refuse to eat or drink so easily may we imagine the same power over the other spiritual propensions however neither of them though disturb'd by Man's Will are therefore Imaginary to be Cross'd and Disorder'd but not to be Deny'd A Mother that shall be able by the unhappy exercise of her freedom to restrain her Natural Affection to her Infant is not therefore a good Argument against that Kind Design of Nature nor shall a Man that has prevail'd upon himself to be Unmerciful Ungrateful Insensible of a God and Unapprehensive of the Future perswade us therefore that this is Human or the genuine result of his First Constitution As Man is Lord of himself and enjoys his Liberty so he may use it against himself and destroy what he was intrusted to preserve by debauch he may weaken and enervate the tone of his Body and he may soften the Firmness of his Mind he may deform God's Outward Image and may efface the Characters within he may put out his Eyes and cut off his Hands or his Feet either wilfully or as some have done upon design to escape the Service of their Country but the design can never be this to make Men believe that the Maim'd Trunk was the Original Shape and that the Eyes and Limbs of other Men are Artificial things and Additions to Nature It is not therefore to be wondered that some Men have effected what they labour'd so much and that all the Industry and contrivance against themselves of those that are the suppos'd Masters of Wit should in some measure succeed The pleasures of one outward sense may be so violent as to supersede the perceptions of the other and the Soul strongly diverted at the Eye may forget it has an Ear so easily when it is call'd outward at all the senses may it disregard the notices of the Inner and suffer the gentle directions Within to be over-power'd by a violence from Abroad Then the Higher Rational part of Man is brought to submit to the Lower and our Reason is put on the task to prove us Beasts There are then other suppositions made than those we mention of Chance and Hazard in the Universe and of Ill Nature in Men the one to be the cause of the Beauty and Regularity of the World and the other the original of human Society Such suppositions are then made not as would arise Naturally from our first Thoughts but such as are Necessary for absurd Consequences such as were attempted by one of the same Authors in other Learning but did not succeed as well when a Point was to be Big and a Line to be Broad and those might it may be have been granted too had the deductions been not concerning the impertinence of a squar'd Circle or a doubled Cube could those rich Consequences have followed thence that profit and pleasure were the chief end of Man that there was no Controul now nor Judgment hereafter For there is a great advantage design'd to be gain'd by the denyal of what we suppose they that have overcome their Conscience triumph as over a slain Enemy and seem the only happy the only free Men they are in perfect peace and full security by rejecting this single Principle they are rid of all their Disquiets Regrets and Fears they have chas'd away the Spectrum that haunted them the peevish Monitor that disturb'd them And so there may be a deeper quiet about a Prince when his Guards are asleep but it is but a dream of security and a Man is at more ease without the Admonitions of his Friend but in greater danger All this Gaiety is but as of those who have lost their Senses who seem at ease and better than ever in the flattering Delirium under the heighth of their Distemper For so the outward Sense of Feeling may be dulled and deadned by Art may be made a Boast and exposed for a Show such are capable of no Pain and have not the afflicting Impressions that others suffer but this Pain was design'd for their Use and they are made sensible of Hurt that they may avoid it who otherwise might heedlesly suffer their Limbs to be lopp'd off or their Life to be taken away In the same manner may Men boast they are without Pain within but it is but an ill condition they are without the sense that should grieve them when they do ill and feel not the satisfaction of those that do well without it they cannot live to the Advantages of the present Life nor ever arrive at that to come But prudent Men will act according to the intention of their Creator and think it most fit for a Rational Being to pursue the design of the All-wise they will as much as they can quicken this inward sence improve this discerning Power of the Mind and encourage its Reflections careful to maintain and keep up the Conscience tender of its sight as of the Apple of their Eye To this necessary purpose are all Holy Times so many pauses interpos'd and stops made in our lives that we may stand still consider and look back a quiet from abroad to hearken within to hear what God speaks not only in his loud but in his still voice To this purpose we come as now to the Word of God to have the Law on our Hearts refresh'd by that of the Holy Book to have the fleshly Tables injur'd in Adam and in us as those first of stone were broke in Moses his hand supplied again if possible and corrected by this Authentick Copy to have our domestick Monitor check'd it may be at home encouraged and assisted by the Publick to hear the same Reflections made Directions and Reproofs seconded by those that speak in our Maker's Name Thus far for the first Supposition That there is in Mankind a Sence of Good and Ill Natural Notices of our Duty which may be suppress'd but ought to be cherished and promoted The Other Supposition of the Text is harder to be imagin'd though it will be granted more easily That Men may act contrary to what they know and persist in that which they condemn For it may not be difficult to conceive how a Rational Creature should understand its Duty and be sensible of the design of its Frame but hardly to be thought he should oppose his Judgments by his Actions and consent to what he disallows And yet this Real Contradiction between our