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take them then as rousing hints to awaken you from your soul destroying carelessness, and put you upon it to use utmost endeavours, whilst you may, to prevent such deadly reflections of your own souls. But,

take them then as rouzing hints to awaken you from your souldestroying carelesness, and put you upon it to use utmost endeavours, whilst you may, to prevent such deadly reflections of your own souls. But,

3. The last and principal motive which I shall urge, is this, viz. Consider that if once ⟨p. 73⟩you can make the Truth yours, it will certainly make you happy. All men are naturally inquisitive about felicity; it being that which the natural cravings of the rational appetite, put into man in his Creation, are restlessly carried forth after: there is none of the children of men but are saying, who will show us good? The great design which every man hath on foot is to compass it; though the greatest number of them labour of woeful disappointments: now, I can assure you, that that Happiness which men are at so much study in seeking after, and have been at so much labour and pains to obtain, and have yet been so horribly cheated of their expectation after all,. is in this way infallibly to be attained, viz. Buy the Truth and you without doubt shall purchase felicity with it. Prov. 8. 34, 35. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gate, waiting at the posts of my doors; for whosoever findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. Truth is it self the Blessedness of the Understanding, and it brings that good with it which must needs happily the whole man. I have offered something already under the former use, in the deserved commendation of Truth, in vindication of ⟨p. 74⟩the wisdom of all those that drive a constant trade in it: but such is the great worth and most admirable excellency of it, that there cannot be too much said in its praise here: therefore let me further say of it,