hor of our being, having given us the power over
several parts of our bodies, to move or keep them at rest as we think
fit; and also, by the motion of them, to move ourselves and other
contiguous bodies, in which consist all the actions of our body: having
also given a power to our minds, in several instances, to choose,
amongst its ideas, which it will think on, and to pursue the inquiry of
this or that subject with consideration and attention, to excite us to
these actions of thinking and motion that we are capable of,--has been
pleased to join to several thoughts, and several sensations a perception
of delight. If this were wholly separated from all our outward
sensations, and inward thoughts, we should have no reason to prefer one
thought or action to another; negligence to attention, or motion to
rest. And so we should neither stir our bodies, nor employ our minds,
but let our thoughts (if I may so call it) run adrift, without any
direction or design, and suffer the ideas of our minds, like unregarded
shadows, to make their appearances there, as it happened, without
attending to them. In which state man, however furnished with the
faculties of understanding and will, would be a very idle, inactive
creature, and pass his time only in a lazy, lethargic dream. It has
therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and the
ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a
concomitant pleasure, and that in several objects, to several degrees,
that those faculties which he had endowed us with might not remain
wholly idle and unemployed by us.

4. An end and use of pain.

Pain has the same efficacy and use to set us on work that pleasure has,
we being as ready to employ our faculties to avoid that, as to pursue
this: only this is worth our consideration, that pain is often produced
by the same objects and ideas that produce pleasure in us. This their
near conjunction, which makes us often feel pain in the sensations where
we expected pleasure, gives us new occasion of admiring the wisdom and
goodness of our Maker, who, designing the preservation of our being, has
annexed pain to the application of many things to our bodies, to warn us
of the harm that they will do, and as advices to withdraw from them. But
he, not designing our preservation barely, but the preservation of every
part and organ in its perfection, hath in many cases annexed pain to
those very ideas which delight us. T