A discourse about the state of true happiness delivered in certain sermons in Oxford,…A discourse about the state of true happinesse deliuered in certaine sermons in Oxford,…

sith all the worth, wisdom, power, excellency, and whatsoever other happiness of man, all the highest, and greatest treasures and glory under the Sun, without the fear and favour of God, if they were put in the weights with vanity, vanity would weigh them all down. So thought David, Psal. 62. The children of men are vanity, ¹the chief men are lies: to lay them upon a balance, they are altogether lighter then vanity it self.

sith all the worth, wisdome, power, excellencie, and whatsoeuer other happinesse of man, al the highest, and greatest treasures and glory vnder the Sunne, without the feare and fauour of God, if they were put in the waights with vanitie, vanitie would waigh them all downe. So thought Dauid, Psal. 62. The children of men are vanitie, ¹the chiefemen are lies: to lay them vpon a balance, they are altogether lighter then vanitie it selfe.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] The only men; those that are men indeed.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 The only men; those that are men indeed.

Lastly, the child of God, besides the better and more special §5apprehensions of nature, stores his conscience, his treasury of practical principles, with many sacred and saving lessons and rules out of heavenly truth and Gods holy word; but so, that in his practise of them, he stands not upon terms of pleasure, profit or preferments; but doth wholly and entirely resign up himself in obedience, and humility to be guided and governed by them, without restriction or cuasion, in his thoughts, affections and actions, through the whole course of his life. Therefore,