Section 3
pp. 72 passages
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SECT. III.
2. I Call it the [most happy] estate, to difference it,1 not only from all seeming happiness which is to be found in the enjoyment of creatures; but also from all those beginnings, foretastes, earns, first fruits, and imperfect degrees, which we have here in this life, while we are but in the way: It is the Chief Good, which the world hath so much disputed, yet mistaken or neglected; without which, the greatest confluence of all other good leaves a man miserable; and with the enjoyment of which, all misery is inconsistent.
2. I Call it the [most happy] estate, to difference it,1 not onely from all seeming happiness which is to be found in the enjoyment of creatures; but also from all those beginnings, foretastes, earns, first fruits, and imperfect degrees, which we have here in this life, while we are but in the way: It is the Chief Good, which the world hath so much disputed, yet mistaken or neglected; without which, the greatest confluence of all other good leaves a man miserable; and with the enjoyment of which, all misery is inconsistent.
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