A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

10. He is capable of fetching his highest Pleasures from the fore-thoughts of Everlasting. Happiness, and receiving from hence his encouragement in well doing and foretaste of the Reward. Now this being the Natural frame of man, as is past denial (when Brutes have no such thing at all,) let Reason judge whether the God of Nature have made this nature of man in vain that we see hath suited every other creature to its use: our horses to carry us, and our Ox to draw for us, and the earth to bear its several▪ fruits for them and us: And hath he mistaken only in the making of man, and gone beyond his own Intention, and fitted him for those uses and enjoyments that he was never meant for? These are not Imputations to be cast upon the most wise and gracious God.

10. He is capable of fetching his highest Pleasures from the fore-thoughts of Everlasting. Happiness, and receiving from hence his encouragement in well doing and foretast of the Reward. Now this being the Natural frame of man, as is past denyal (when Brutes have no such thing at all,) let Reason judge whether the God of Nature have made this nature of man in vain that we see hath suited every other creature to its use: our horses to carry us, and our Ox to draw for us, and the earth to bear its several▪ fruits for them and us: And hath he mistaken only in the making of man, and gone beyond his own Intention, and fitted him for those uses and enjoyments that he was never meant for? These are not Imputations to be cast upon the most wise and gracious God.

Quer. 10. Moreover I demand of you, What is the End of man and all these special faculties, if there be no life for him after this? Either he hath an End which he is to intend, or he hath •one. If none, then he hath nothing to do in the world. For all actions of man are nothing else but the Intending of some End, ⟨p. 138⟩and the choice and use of means for the attaining it. Man must lie down and sleep out his days, if this be true that he hath end. Nay sleep it self hath some. And he cannot choose but Intend some End and seek it, if he would never so fain, unless he will take some opiate stupefying potion, or run mad. And he that made him also and placed him here, had some End in it: For if man had thus no End, he could have no Maker or Efficient cause: For every Rational efficient intendeth an end in all his works. (And he that made men Rational, is Eminently much more Knowing then his Creature) And if we had no Maker, then we have no Being, and so are no Men.