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To this very day we see all the sons and daughters of Adam seeking for happiness, but few or none finding what they seek for, all agree in the notion, but they differ in the object. People generally go for happiness to the worlds Trinity. Scil. The lust of the flesh, 1 John 2.16. Scil. The lust of the eyes, 1 John 2.16. Scil. The pride of life, 1 John 2.16. But alas! ¹these have it not to give; men would fain squeeze that out of the world which God never put into it. As an evidence whereof it is highly observable, that the wisdom of God (who best knows the worth of things) hath not (in that Scripture, 1 John 2.16.) dignified these elements of the world, with those innocent titles of their primitive institution, pleasures, riches, honours, but calls them by the odious names, which the first apostasy, and the habitual degeneracy of nature hath justly imposed, the lust of the flesh instead of pleasures, the lust of the eyes instead of riches, and the pride of life instead of honours; in which respect the Apostle denieth them their original from the Father, and sends them to fetch their pedigree from a lower extraction, nim. from the world, ver. 16.

To this very day we see all the sons and daughters of Adam seeking for happiness, but few or none finding what they seek for, all agree in the notion, but they differ in the object. People generally go for happiness to the worlds Trinity. Scil. The lust of the flesh, 1 John 2.16. Scil. The lust of the eyes, 1 John 2.16. Scil. The pride of life, 1 John 2.16. But alas! ¹these have it not to give; men would fain squeeze that out of the world which God never put into it. As an evidence whereof it is highly observable, that the wisdom of God (who best knows the worth of things) hath not (in that Scripture,