z88 Matter not eternal and uncaused•

on the whole then, reason neither admits ofmatter’s being eternally created, nor can either

know not what it is, are even capable of entringcomplaints as these here mentioned, in order to fte' vthe constitution of things is wrong. “ Can any boun $‘■‘■set to desire (fays one); may not I with to be as las’ 1 a“ powerful, as happy , as any Being else is; infrid^ft 1'■ c feB ? Why am I made capable of desiring what 1“ not capable of attaining?” Free-ihinking is cetta* /good thing if it be rational: but if it exceed the k° unof reason, it of course becomes absurd thinking- * ywould put the question, May not I desire tvhat it ^,a contradiction? He would fee what answer itnamely, that he should desire to be rational in tb e ^place. That all Beings should be equally powerful, has’perfect, is the wildest absurdity. The constitution y ^r eis notwrong, but such desire foolilh and inconsist e!1 ^] c ;cannot help, it is true, desiring to be as happy as P°but our chief desire in order to this should be, ■ j ftmay have been consituted by infinite wisdom and t 00 ,uAnd if so, ourwilhes are prevented. Man fill dbe as happy as possibility and reason can perm>t-he ha ve reason to give way, or imposibility to ta ^ e ^ H 5to gratify his absurdity ? Since free-thinking carne ^ -f itin vogue, we run to it from a mistaken conceit,were to free us from allresraint , a permijson W tatiousy of every thing. But on the contrary, d H eS ^ jsto the severity of eternal reason. To he free fromthe greatestyfewy, which we ignorantly a ^" e ^".,,free-thinking to pull down every thing, and but