altogether lost and destroyed; and such a Man, so far from having _natural_ and _moral_ Powers, has (properly speaking) _no Power_ at all remaining: all his Thoughts and Actions, like those of a Machine, are merely involuntary; he is constantly impelled by something mightier than himself, and ever necessitated to think and act as he does: his being an intelligent Creature, doth not alter the State of the Case, or render him more an Agent than a Stock or a Stone. In this sad Condition, Man can have no Power at all to love and pursue Virtue, untill the overruling Principle, which determines all his Thoughts and Actions to the contrary, be removed, or he receive Superaddition of Understanding and Strength agreeable thereto. My natural Strength of Body may be equal to four hundred Weight; but what can this avail, while I am continually pressed down by four thousand? and all Mr. _J--s_'s Skill and Criticism (_Pages_ 71, 72) will not evade this Reasoning. The Distinction between immediate and remote Causes of Sin, is as trifling and inconclusive, as the 'forementioned Distinction of _moral_ and _natural_ Powers. Those indeed, who can fancy themselves to be God's own dear and elect Children, may reject all Opposition with _Scorn_, and without _Examination_, and acquiesce readily in the most rigid and tyrannical System of Religion, that renders the Bulk of Mankind miserable, while the Elect may think themselves secure in the Divine Decree, _with an humble Assent, and awful_ (it should be superstitious) _Reverence of the Majesty and Sovereignty of the great God_. But what Reason or Recompence will that be to _him_, who under proper Means and Motives would have kept the Commandments, and so have entered into Life; who would have loved the Lord his God, with all his Heart, Soul, and Strength; and his Neighbour as himself? Or how can such a partial and tyrannical Doctrine, be reconciled to the Voice of Reason in Man, to our common Notions of _Right_ and _Wrong_, to the General Scope and Tenour of the _Holy Scriptures_, or to that Text in particular, which assures us, that _the Almighty doth not grieve nor afflict the Children of Men willingly?_ _FINIS._