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

First, They are uncapable of apprehending Spiritual Eternal Things, which alone bring fit and complete satisfaction to the Soul: and cannot look forward to the end of sinful Pleasures, and balance the terrible Evils they leave at parting, with the slight vanishing ⟨p. 172⟩content that springs from their Presence. Therefore as blind Persons lay hold on things they feel, so the sensitive Faculties adhere to gross present enjoyment, not understanding the pure spotless Felicity that is to come, and despising what they do not understand. Now who would in an Affair upon which his All depends, advise with Children and Fools, whose Judgment of things is without Counsel, their Counsel without Discourse, their Discourse without Reason? There is nothing more contrary to the order of Nature, than for Men that should affect with Judgment, to judg by their Affections.

First, They are uncapable of apprehending Spiritual Eternal Things, which alone bring fit and compleat satisfaction to the Soul: and cannot look forward to the end of sinful Pleasures, and ballance the terrible Evils they leave at parting, with the slight vanishing ⟨p. 172⟩content that springs from their Presence. Therefore as blind Persons lay hold on things they feel, so the sensitive Faculties adhere to gross present enjoyment, not understanding the pure spotless Felicity that is to come, and despising what they do not understand. Now who would in an Affair upon which his All depends, advise with Children and Fools, whose Judgment of things is without Counsel, their Counsel without Discourse, their Discourse without Reason? There is nothing more contrary to the order of Nature, than for Men that should affect with Judgment, to judg by their Affections.

2. The carnal Appetite with its Lusts are very deceitful, a Party within holding correspondence with our Spiritual Enemies, the Armies of evil Angels, so active and assiduous in conspiring and accomplishing the Damnation of Men. The Devil in Scripture is called the Tempter by way of eminence, who manages and improves all Temptations, and his pernicious design is by the Objects of Sense ordered and made more alluring and killing by his various Arts, to engage the Affections into a