· The subordinations of domestic life. · The rules of life. --Some of this learning is acquired so insensibly, as to seem like instinct, but some requires great care and labor, and the doing of things we are averse to. --According as we act during this formative period, is our character formed; and our capacity for various stations in society determined. --Early opportunities lost, cannot be recovered. 3.) Our state of discipline throughout this life, for another, is exactly of the same kind: and comprehended under one general law. --If we could not see how the present discipline fitted us for a higher life, it would be no objection. · We do not know how food, sleep, &c. enlarges the child’s body; nor would we expect such a result, prior to experience. · Nor do children understand the need of exercise, temperance, restraint, &c. --We thus see a general analogy of Providence indicating that the present life is preparatory. =4.= If virtue is a necessary qualification for future happiness, then we see our need of the moral culture of our present state. 1.) Analogy indicates that our future state will be social. --Nature furnishes no shadow of unreasonableness in the Scripture doctrine that this future community will be under the more immediate government of God. --Nor the least proof that its members will not require the exercise of veracity, justice, &c. towards each other; and that character which _results_ from the practice of such virtues. --Certainly the universe is under moral government; and a virtuous character must, in some way, be a condition of happiness in that state. 2.) We are deficient, and in danger of deviating from what is right. --We have desires for outward objects. --The times, degrees, &c. of gratifying these desires, are, of right, subject to the control of the moral principle. --But that principle neither excites them, nor prevents their being excited. --They may exist, when they cannot be lawfully gratified, or gratified at all. --When the desire exists, and the gratification is unlawful, we are tempted. 3.) The only security is the principle within. --The strengthening of this lessens the danger. --It may be strengthened, by discipline and exercise. · Noting examples. · Attending to the right, and not to preference. · Considering our true interests. --When improved, it becomes, in proportion to its strength, our security from the dangers of natural propensions. --Virtue, become habitual by discipline, is improved virtue; and improved virtue must produce increased happiness, if the government of the world is moral. 4.) Even creatures made upright may fall.