The Favour of God obtained by Wifdorn. 119 nefs. Thefe terms are equivalent, and all S ER M. mean the fame thing which in my text is V. called the favour of the Lord, which good "-, men regard as the All of their felicity ; If they enjoy it, there is nothing wanting to them; if they be deprived of it, there is no- thing can fupply its place, or afford any true confolation. Thofe who are fo unhappy, or rather fo foolifh, as to neglect this chief good, í1111, however, as their nature unalte- rably determineth them, intent upon happi- nefs, fall into a great variety of purfuits ; they fay, Who will Phew us any good? Pfal. iv. 6. Though there are objets fuitable to the inclinations God hath planted in our na- ture, and in conferring them upon us the liberality of his providence appeareth ; yet even fuppofing them fought after, and en- joyed without fin, they come fhort of being our true felicity, both in the perfection of degree, and in the duration of them. They cannot yield folid contentment and fatisfac- tion to the mind of man, becaufe they are too low in their kind for its high capacity ; and they are of a perifhing nature ; pleafure is but for a feafon, honour only an empty fhadow ; nothing can be more variable and uncertain than it is ; and riches make them - 1 4 (elves
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