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and Indifference upon both. We must in effect tax the best and Wisest of Being, with what would pass even in our own Species, for the want of Goodness or of Knowledge and Power. But as the very notion of a common Parent and Reserver, as well as visible Benefactor to our Race and to this Mansion of Earth which we Inhabit, excludes the former of these Suspicions; so it is equally incredible, That He who made the Eye, should neglect to See, That He who formed the Human Heart, should cease to Understand, or Remember, That He should have trusted Us with such dangerous Powers, as Should place us beyond the reach and Superintendancy of his Own; That He should have granted us the Tenure of a Life so valuable, and yet have left us no ways Accountable to the Original Proprietor, for any wast, or Improvement, and Homage or Disloyalty, exercised in the Possession of it. When, and Where, the Great Account shall be closed, and the [[underline]] final [[/underline]] Decision pass'd, on a right or wrong Conduct, not only Revelation informs us, but the common Voice of Reason, the concurrent Hopes and Fears, of All civilized Ages and Nations, Sufficiently Suggest to our cooler
