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Rh has Plac'd it. The Tame As Wrought Hard, for his Fine Coat, and the Wild one Far’d Hard, to Bailance the Comfort of his Freedom.

HE Aes found themelves once o Intolerably Oppreed, with Cruel Maters, and Heavy Burdens, that they ent their Ambaadors to Jupiter with a Petition for Redres. Jupiter found the Requet Unreaonable, and o gave them This Anwer, That Humane Society could not be Preerv’d without Carrying Burdens ome way or other: So that if the would but Joyn, and Pis up a River, that the Burdens which they now Carry’d by Land might be carried by Water, they hould be Eas'd of That Grievance. This et them All a Piing Immediately, and the Humeur is kept upto This very Day, that whenever One As Pies, the Ret Pis for Company.

THE Decrees and Appointments of Heaven are Unchangeable, and there’s no Contending. How many Popular Counter-parts of the Aes Petition to Jupiter for Redres of Grievances, have we liv'd to ee within our own Memory, and all, for Things, not only Unreaonable, but utterly Impoible. We read however in the Anwer, the Quality, and the Reproach of the Prayer, which is Granted upon Conditions as Impracticable, as the Thing deir'd is Ridiculous.

The Aes are here Comp'aining (after the Way of the Mobile) for being put to the very Ue and Bus‘nes they were Made for; as if it were Cruelty and Oppreion to Employ the Neceary Means, which God and Nature has given us, for the Attaining of Neceary Ends. If we Confound Higher and Lower, the World is a Chaos again, and a Level. Is not a Labourer as much a Tool of Providence as the Mater-Builder? Are not the Meanet Artians, of the ame Intitution with Miniters of Counel and State: The Head can no more be without the Body, then the Body without the Head; and neither of them without Hands and Feet to Defend, and Provide, both for the One, and for the Other. Government can no more Subit without Subjection, then the Multitude can Agree without Government: And the Duty of Obeying, is no les of Divine Appointment, then the Authority of Commanding.