The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it

And from hence we may understand, that the only way of their recovery is by clearing the Mind from Ignorance and Folly, that it may discern the sole proper object of the rational Appetite in its true Beauty and Goodness, and by that sight the Will may feel its ravishing Power, and be drawn to a free and firm choice of it. And that the Soul may not faint under the apprehension of insuperable difficulties interposing between it and the obtaining of its Happiness, and therefore content it self with easy Vanities, to propound such means that sincerely used will be ⟨p. 6⟩effectual, and offer it that assistance that will make it finally victorious over all opposition.

Thus the two leading Faculties being turned from the Creature to God, the inferior Wheels will follow their motion, and the Conversation be entirely changed. In order to this happy work the following Discourses were composed; wherein are represented those reasons from the Dignity, Capacity, and Immortality of Man's Soul, and from the essential conditions of his Felicity; that impartially considered by the Men of the World, who prefer Earth before Heaven, will discover the vanity of their Designs, and check the fury of their Prosecutions, and turn their Aims and endeavours to that that is infinitely more worthy of them. But the real effecting this belongs solely to his Divine Power, who purchased Heaven for us.

Thus the two leading Faculties being turn'd from the Creature to God, the inferior Wheels will follow their motion, and the Conversation be intirely chang'd. In order to this happy work the following Discourses were composed; wherein are represented those reasons from the Dignity, Capacity, and Immortality of Man's Soul, and from the essential conditions of his Felicity; that impartially considered by the Men of the World, who prefer Earth before Heaven, will discover the vanity of their Designs, and check the fury of their Prosecutions, and turn their Aims and endeavours to that that is infinitely more worthy of them. But the real effecting this belongss solely to his Divine Power, who purchased Heaven for us.