The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

3. Hence this performance is the very way to enjoy the performance of the promise. It comes in as a necessary medium, which is Metaphorically called a way, because we come to be happy, by our conformity to that which is required of us in order to it: and the want of this will make us to fail of that, Gal. 6. 16.

2. That if ever man be happy, he must be brought into, & kept in this way. On supposition that there is a way to blessedness necessary to be gone in, and that there is but one right way, it is beyond dispute that we must get into it, and persevere in it, or we shall certainly come short of life and happiness. We are now speaking of fallen man, which is the condition of all Adams progeny; here then a few remarks.

1. That man by his fall is turned out of the way of felicity. God sat man right at first, Eccles. 7. 29. But it is of the very nature of sin to take a wrong course, 1 Joh. 3. 4. Which is therefore assigned to the state of fallen man, Psal. 14. 3. He is a lost thing, Luk. 19. 10. Man hath not lost his natural desire to be happy, but he is gone from the method that was given him to obtain it.