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Besides, what are these pleasures which thou findest in the Creature? What are these joys and comforts which thou fetchest from any thing besides God, or below God? are they not sensual and brutish? are they not only found in the sensitive part of thy Soul, and not in the more noble and rational part? Dost thou place thy pleasure and delights in eating and drinking, and gratifying thy sensitive appetite; why thy very beast, thy horse, thy dog, hath this delight as well as thou? and some creatures more than man. I can tell thee of a man that hath tried more than what these pleasures are; that had a greater estate, and greater varieties of all sorts to delight himself, that hath made such search what there is in all things under the Sun to delight the heart of man, that no man that comes after him can do more; and yet he hath left it upon record from his own experience, that all is vanity and vexation of Spirit, and that is Solomon, Eccles. 2. ⟨p. 49⟩throughout; take thy Book and read it; his Conclusion is, that the Delights and Pleasures fetched from things above the Sun do far surpass and exceed all pleasures and delight taken from all things under the Sun; the same man that tells thee, all under the Sun is vanity, doth also tell thee that the ways of Wisdom, are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are Peace. Prov. 3.17.

Besides, what are these pleasures which thou findest in the Creature? What are these joys and comforts which thou fetchest from any thing besides God, or below God? are they not sensual and bruitish? are they not only found in the sensitive part of thy Soul, and not in the more noble and rational part? Dost thou place thy pleasure and delights in eating and drinking, and gratifying thy sensitive appetite; why thy very beast, thy horse, thy dog, hath this delight as well as thou? and some creatures more than man. I can tell thee of a man that hath tried more than what these pleasures are; that had a greater estate, and greater varieties of all sorts to delight himself, that hath made such search what there is in all things under the Sun to delight the heart of man, that no man that comes after him can do more; and yet he hath left it upon record from his own experience, that all is vanity and vexation of Spirit, and that is Solomon,