An essay on the origin of evil . lyMr. DOylf^ firft Diflertation. C 9. 224 Concerning Natural Evil. Chap. IV^ NOTES, pofition thro all the abovemcntlonM Particulars, njiz. that mtone of thofe Evils or Inconveniences in our Syjlem could poj/iblyhave been prevented vnthout a greater: which is an ampleVindication, an evident Proof ol all the Divine Attributes,in the original Frame and Government thereof. And indeedthis feems to be the bell andmoft convincing, if not the only-proper Method of handling the Argument and examining theWorks of God, fo as to attain a due fcnfe of, and regard forthe Aut
An essay on the origin of evil . lyMr. DOylf^ firft Diflertation. C 9. 224 Concerning Natural Evil. Chap. IV^ NOTES, pofition thro all the abovemcntlonM Particulars, njiz. that mtone of thofe Evils or Inconveniences in our Syjlem could poj/iblyhave been prevented vnthout a greater: which is an ampleVindication, an evident Proof ol all the Divine Attributes,in the original Frame and Government thereof. And indeedthis feems to be the bell andmoft convincing, if not the only-proper Method of handling the Argument and examining theWorks of God, fo as to attain a due fcnfe of, and regard forthe Author of them. Which Maxim therefore, we concludefrom the numberlefs inftances of its apparent Validity, oughtto be allowd, and may be fafely infilled on, tho by reafon ofour great ignorance of Nature, ic cannot always be fo clearlyapplied. However it has been applied fuccefsfully to the So-lution of the moil material Difficulties in the prefent Queflion,as may appear more fully from the Authors referrd to in theforegoing Chap. Vo 2:2^5 CHAP. Moral Evil Infroduciion^ containing the Suhftance ojthe Chapter, A VIN G given fome Account o£ Natti-^ral Evils, the Moral come next underconfideration: we are now to trace outthe Origin of thefe and fee of what kind icis, whether they flow from the fameSource with the Natural, the neceffary Imper-fe^ion of created Beings; or we are to feek for fomeother entirely different from it. By Moral Evils) as we fafd before, are under-flood thofe Inconveniencies of Life and Conditionwhich befall ourfclves or others thro* wrong Ekdi-ons. For it is plain rh^t fome inconveniencieshappen without our knowledge, or againft ourWills, by the very Order of natural CaufeSj-whereas others come upon us knowingly? and in amanner with our Confent (when we choofe eitherthefe themfelves, or fuch as are neceffarily con-neded with them.) The Moral are to be reckondamong the latter kind of Incoveniencies; and hemufl be efleemd the Caufe of them, w
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