The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

Now these things are not obscure Articles of Faith, nor abstracted Doctrines, to be considered only by refined Reason, but are manifest and clear as the Light, and verified by continual Experience: 'Tis therefore strange to amazement, that Man should search after Happiness in these things where he knows 'tis not to be found▪ and court real Infelicity under a deceitful appearance, when the Fallacy is transparent. Who from a principle of Reason would choose for his Happiness a real Good, which after a little time he should be deprived of for ever: or a slight good for ever; as the sight of a Picture, or the hearing of Music. Yet thus unreasonable is Man in his lapsed state, whose Soul is truly immortal, and capable of infinite Blessedness, yet he chooses those delights which are neither satisfying, nor lasting. And because the Humane Understanding from time to time is convinced of the vanity of all sublunary things, therefore to lessen the vexation which arises from Disappointment, and that the Appetite may not be taken off from them, corrupted Man tries;

Now these things are not obscure Articles of Faith, nor abstracted Doctrines, to be consider'd only by refined Reason, but are manifest and clear as the Light, and verified by continual Experience: 'Tis therefore strange to amazement, that Man should search after Happiness in these things where he knows 'tis not to be found▪ and court real Infelicity under a deceitful appearance, when the Fallacy is transparent. Who from a principle of Reason would choose for his Happiness a real Good, which after a little time he should be depriv'd of for ever: or a slight good for ever; as the sight of a Picture, or the hearing of Musick. Yet thus unreasonable is Man in his lapsed state, whose Soul is truely immortal, and capable of infinite Blessedness, yet he chooses those delights which are neither satisfying, nor lasting. And because the Humane Understanding from time to time is convinc'd of the vanity of all sublunary things, therefore to lessen the vexation which arises from Disappointment, and that the Appetite may not be taken off from them, corrupted Man tries;