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or unprofitable to the life of man. his %\-hole faculties were put upon the stretch, to niipply Ihe flemandv of appetite, as llit^y camu round, and thouf^b there is reason to believe that God, vho made unto them coatK of ftkins, would not be less mindful of their sustenance, and would set them up in agriculture, aa he bad in raiment, so that they went not forth altogether unprovided; yet appe* the. coming regularly ii its demands, would re- quire a regular provision, and the pains of hunger and thirst beiu^ so extreme, would prompt to methods of storing against want; anda system of anxious forebodings concerning the future, and of indu!*trious labour in the present, ^vol)Id soon come to be engendered : which care aiid labour lieing directed to the appetites, these would noon come to rise in importanire ; and their gratirieation, which bad cost the greateU anxiety, n^ould soon come to take the highest place: and so the sensual part of human nature would come to bo developed and citaUcd by the constant demand which it made upon the other faculties to provide for its well* being. This degradation is daily manifested by experience. Let u ship's crew, however well dis- ciplined, and regular in their habits, or, in iruth, let any body of men be reduced by hunger to extremities, the aflectionsand the underfitanding, and the most rooted customs of social lutercourBe give way before the demands of appetite; cold aelfishiit-is, aud btutril U|)alhy, titke. ihe Kupre* macy iu the breast, aud each corisumes his meal in solitary sadness, till at last, wbeD other suceodr 1040 TH£ CUnSS A3 TO BODttT tASOVIt. {DU, fniltf, ihey fatt to the ilevoiirmg of one anotlier; After a similar manner, it mu^t Imve bag^wnedl that by degrees the sensnal pari of men otctj clouded Uie ratiooal aiid the spiritual, wbicb, ti Adam and his immediate posterity, I doubt aurvJYOd in eonne strength for geaeratioiia* Bi wbcomen Kc^ittrri-d.aEKlhad tomaiittam the ntnfo' with the BaiinaU and the wildernepis, and could barely subsist tliemselvea, in a few genermtioni would all bic;ber knowled^ fail, and with it >>ltB higher feeling, and all the ertis which attend t^ sensual life would ensue.— every dispute which wait« on property, every degrsdation which waft* on drudgery, everv prfjinlic'e which waiiii on igno* ranee, and every piissloii which spriu^ of selfish** nesfi, — jealousy, envy, malice, and revenf^. 1 11. Tltc extent and process of this lamentabl fall coDficquent upon the operation of this cnraev will be brought a little more under the observation, a