*But alas, though God, and nature, and reason, make human life thus free from wants; yet our passions, in rebellion against God, against _nature_ and _reason_, create a new world of evils, and fill human life with imaginary wants, and vain disquiets. *The man of _pride_ has a thousand wants, which only his own pride has _created_; and these render him as full of trouble, as if God had created him with a _thousand appetites_, without creating any thing that was proper to satisfy them. _Envy_ and _ambition_ have also their endless wants, which disquiet the souls of men, and by their contradictory motions render them as foolishly miserable as those that want to _fly_ and _creep_ at the same time. Let but any complaining, disquieted man, tell you the ground of his uneasiness, and you will plainly see that he is the author of his own torment; that he is vexing himself at some imaginary evil, which will cease to torment him as soon as he is content to be that which God, and nature, and reason, require him to be. 5. *If you should see a man passing his days in disquiet, because he could not _walk_ upon the _water_, or _catch birds_ as they fly by him, you would readily confess that such an one might thank himself for such uneasiness. But now, if you look into the most tormenting disquiets of life, you will find them all thus absurd. People are only tormented by their own folly, and vexing themselves at such things as no more concern them, nor are any more their proper good, than _walking_ upon the _water_, or _catching birds_. *What can you conceive more silly and extravagant, than a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? Wandering from his own house and home, wearying himself with _climbing_ upon every ascent, _cringing_ and _courting_ every body he meets, to lift him up from the ground, bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people gazing up at him, and mighty happy to _eat_, and _drink_, and _sleep_, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom. Would you not readily own that such a one was only disquieted at his _own folly_? If you ask, what it signifies to suppose such silly creatures as are no where to be found in human life? It may be answered, that wherever you see an _ambitious_ man, there you see this _vain and senseless flyer_.