2. The same causes, with the same circumstances, will have the same effects on recipients, equally disposed.
3. Operari sequitur esse: as natures are, so they act; except where overpowered.
4. The appetite, sensitive and rational, is the principle of motion; and what any love they will desire and seek.
5. Therefore, interest will turn the affairs of the world; and he that can best understand all interests, will be the best moral prognosticator; so far men are causes of the events.
6. The pleasing of God, and the happiness of their own and others' souls, being the interest of true believers; and temporal life, pleasure, and prosperity, being the seeming and esteemed interest of unbelievers' cross interests, will carry them contrary ways.
7. Contraries, when near and militant, will be troublesome to each other, and seek each other's destruction or debilitation.
8. The senses and experience of all men, in all ages, are to be believed about their proper objects.
9. Men of activity, power, and great numbers, will have advantage for observance and success, above those that are modest, obscure, and few.
10. Yet men will still be men; and the rational nature will yield some friendly aspect towards the truth.
11. Those that are ignorant, and misled by passion, and carried down the stream, by men of malignity or faction, may come to themselves, when affliction, experience, and considerateness have had time to work; and may repent, and undo somewhat that they have done.