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Secondly, they are pleasantness, because in them ¹the soul of a man is in the true and right temper and frame of it: Now the delight of nature, it is the right temper and frame, suitable to the principles of nature in every thing; And therefore, that Text that you all know, where it is said, A good Conscience is a continual feast; the word is in the Original, a good heart, a merry heart, and some translate it, a heart that is in a right temper, that is, in such a frame and temper, that is the true right temper of the heart, that affords a continual feast to any. That place in James 5. If any man be merry, let him sing; ²the word is, if any ones mind be right, if his mind be in the right temper, then let him sing: For there is no true mirth, no true joy, but that which arises from the true temper of the spirit. Sense hath no ⟨p. 173⟩delight, but when the sensitive part is in the right temper; and so it is in the soul: Now the soul in the ways of godliness is in the right temper, these put the soul into the right frame, and so comes to be pleasant.

Secondly, they are pleasantness, because in them ¹the soul of a man is in the true and right temper and frame of it: Now the delight of nature, it is the right temper and frame, suitable to the principles of nature in every thing; And therefore, that Text that you all know, where it is said, A good Conscicience is a continual feast; the word is in the Original, a good heart, a merry heart, and some translate it, a heart that is in a right temper, that is, in such a frame and temper, that is the true right temper of the heart, that affords a continual feast to any. That place in James 5. If any man be merry, let him sing; ²the word is, if any ones minde be right, if his minde be in the right temper, then let him sing: For there is no true mirth, no true joy, but that which arises from the true temper of the spirit. Sense hath no