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

1. The Senses can only taste and enjoy grosser dreggy Pleasures.

1. The Sences can only taste and enjoy grosser dreggy Pleasures.

2. The Fancy that depends upon them in its Operations, and is guided by their report, conceives of Felicity only under the notion of sensitive Pleasure. We may illustrate this by the practice of^‖ Aretius a Painter recorded with Infamy, who being often employed to Paint the Goddesses to be set in the Pagan Temples, always drew their Pictures by the Faces and Complexions of his Harlots, that the Objects of his impure Love might have Veneration and a Divinity attributed to them, under the Titles, and Pretence of Minerva, Juno, Diana, and the other Goddesses adored by the Heathens. This Impiety in an Idolater is resembled by Men, who fancy Happiness, (that is a spiritual divine Perfection enjoyed in the glorious Vision of God) to be a carnal Fruition, and having with sensible Colours and Lineaments represented it agreeable to their brutish Faculties, place it in their Hearts, and Sacrifice all their Thoughts Affections, and Service to it.

2. The Fancy that depends upon them in its Operations, and is guided by their report, conceives of Felicity only under the notion of sensitive Pleasure. We may illustrate this by the practice of^‖ Aretius a Painter recorded with Infamy, who being often imployed to Paint the Goddesses to be set in the Pagan Temples, always drew their Pictures by the Faces and Complexions of his Harlots, that the Objects of his impure Love might have Veneration and a Divinity attributed to them, under the Titles, and Pretence of Minerva, Juno, Diana, and the other Goddesses ador'd by the Heathens. This Impiety in an Idolater is resembled by Men, who fancy Happiness, (that is a spiritual divine Perfection enjoyed in the glorious Vision of God) to be a carnal Fruition, and having with sensible Colours and Lineaments represented it agreeable to their brutish Faculties, place it in their Hearts, and Sacrifice all their Thoughts Affections, and Service to it.