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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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illrender toeverr Man according eo his Oceds; To them Whoby pa-
tient continuance in Well doins. secl For Cilorr, and IPonour, and Immor-
talier, Fcernal Lise; buc unto every soul that doth vil, Indignation
and Wrach, Fribulation and Anguim: T0 him, T Pay, Whohatha prospect
Of the ditterent State oE pertect Hlappinels, or Misery that atcends alI Men
alter this Lite, dependins on cheir Behaviour here, the mealures of (100d
and Evil, that sovern his choice, are mishrily chansed. For since non
thins of Pleasure and Pain in this Lite, can bear ans proportion to endless
HCappinels, or exquilite Misery ol an immortal Soul hereatter, Actions in
his Porer illharecheir preserence, noc accordins to the transient Plea-
sure, or Pain that accompanies, or follons them here; but as they servero
secure that perfect durable Ilappinels hereaster.
5. 36. Flethen char ill accouur sor cheMisers, chat Men olten brins on
themselves, nocrichltandins chac thes do all in carnest pursue Ilappine (o,
and alrays preser the greater apparent C00d, must conlider, hou Lhines
come robe represente d to our choice, under deseirful apperrances: and that
is, By the Fudement pronouncins ironsly concernins them. T0 sec
ho far this reaches, and irhat are the Caules oC irrons Judsment, We
must remember, that thines are judsed eo0d or bad in a double
Senlc.
First, That which is properlr eood or bad, is nothine but barely Pleasure
or Pain.
Secondly, But because noc only present eleasure and Pain, Due
chac also which is apt by is efficaer, or consequences, to brins it upon
us at a distance, cannot but more the Will, and determine thie choice
oFa Creature, chac has Forelisht; therelore thines also that dram after them
Pleasure and Pain, are considered a5 600d and F. vil.
6. 40. The wrone Fudement char misteads us, and matres the Will osten
fasten on the rorse lide, lies in misrevortins uxon the rarious Compari
sons oF these. The Wrons fudgment Pam here speakrins ob, is not What
oneMan may chinle ot the determination oE another; but What every
Man himselF must contessto be Wrons. For since I lay it tor a certain
cround, chac every incellisent Beins really secls llappinels, and rould
enjor all the pleasures hecould, and sulter no pain; tis impossible an
one rould willinolv put into his omn drauxhe any birrer Incredient, or
leare out any thins in his Pover, thât eould add to its svcetness, buton-
ly by a wrons Judement. Lall noc here speak of char miltatse, wrhich
isthe consequence ot invincibler Error, Which scarce deservesthe Name ot
rrons fudsment; but oEchaturons Judement, whieh evers Man him
telFmust contesstoDe (0.
5. qLJ. I. Theretore, as to present Plcature and Pain, the Mind as
has been saic, never mistakres that which is really sood orevil: that wrhich
is the greater Plcasure, or the greater Pain, is really jult, as it appears.
But chouch present Pleature and Pain, Me their difterence and deerces (0
plainly, as norro leave room Por mistake: Vet uhen we compare present
Pleasure or Pain vith future, we often make vrone fudoments Ot them, ta-
kins our meatures ol them in different posirions ol distance. Objects
near oux vie, are apt to be thoushe ercater than thole of a larg er (12C,
that dre more remote: and so it is ith Plealures and Pains, the prelent
is apc to carry ic, and thole at a diltarice have the diladvantose in the
Comparison. Thus most Men, litse spend chrite Hleirs, are apt to judee
alicele in Hland better than a sreat dealtocome; and (0 for sinall MaF-
ters in Possession, pare rith sreat ones in Reversion: but char chis is a WrOnS
sucomene every one mult allon, let his pleature consist in Whacever it
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