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Rh of the Whole. Tis true, their Operations are More or Les Noble, but the Mechanical Faculties can no more be Spar'd than the Intellectual, and thoe that Serve in Council under an Appearance of Ret, are yet as Buie, and as Neceary, in their Functions. as thoe that are Actually and Visibly in Motion. Here's a Caution in fine, to the Members, to have a care how they withdraw themelves from their Duties, till it hall be too late for their Superiors to make ue of them.

There is fo Near an Analogy betwixt the State of a Body Natural, and and Politique, that the Neceity of Government and Obedience cannot be better Repreented. The Motions of a Popular Faction are o Violent, and Unreaonable, that neither Philoophy, Prudence, Experience, nay, nor the Holy Writ it elf, has the Power (ordinarily peaking) to Work upon them. If People would allow themelves Time for Thought, and Conideration, they would find that the Conervation of the Body depends upon the Proper Ue and Service of the Several Parts; and that the Interet of Every Ditinct Member of it, is wrapt up in the Support, and Maintenance of the whole, which obliges them all to Labour in their Repective Offices and Functions for the Common Good. There are Degrees of Dignity (no doubt on't) in Both Caes, and One Part is to be Subervient to Another, in the Order of Civil Policy, as well as in the Frame of a Man's Body: o that they are mightily out of the way, that take Eating and Drinking, and Un-Eating, and Un-Drinking, in a coure of Viciitude, with other Offices of Nature that are common to Beads with Men, to be the Great Bus'nes of Mankind, without any further Regard to the Faculties, and Duties of our Reaonable Being: For Every Member has its Proper, and Repective Function Aigned it, and not a Finger uffers but the Whole Feels on't.

N Ape that found Many Inconveniences by going Bare-Are, went to a Fox that had a Well-pread, Buhy Tayle, and begg'd of him only a little piece on't to Cover his Nakednes: For (ays he) you have enough for Both, and what needs more than you have Occaion for? Well, John (ays the Fox) be it More, or be it Les, you get not one ingle Hair on't; for I would have ye know, Sirrah, that the Tayle of a Fox was never made for the Buttocks of an Ape.