the Evil and Folly of Covetoufnefs. 3 3 it meeteth them with fatisfaétion, and no di- S E R M. firers, difficulty, or danger, can make it infipid. XI. One would think men thould agree in placing `""`--"' the principal enjoyment of life, in that which hath the deepeft foundation in the frame of our nature, which as it giveth the highef} pleafure, fo it is always ready at hand and in our power, never becometh taftelefs, but ftill froth, increafing the more we ufe it, and ap- ply our thoughts to the review ; I fay, we fhould place the enjoyment of life in this ra- ther than in things of an inferior nature, things without us, which depend on variable accidents, and the agreeablenefs of them is fubjet to the inward variations of the fancy, than which experience fheweth nothing is more changeable, But, 2dly, Let it be fuppofed that thefe pleafures are a confiderable article in the enjoyment of life, they are not appropriated to the rich, nor do depend on riches, which are only the means of acquiring the property of them, in which the true enjoyment doth not confif }, The beauties of nature are unconfined, and every man who hath a true fenfe of them, may find objects enough to entertain it. It is not the property in any of them, which giveth pleafure, and the man who purchafeth or procures to be made any beautiful feníble form,
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