,- 10 That Go o u. - ' thofe feveraU ends did require: As for exari1 ple, . What is the reafon, why a horfehathone fathi– on, a dc:>g another, theepe another, aa&oxen ano– ther:; The reafon is plaine, an horfe was made to runne, and to carry men ; the oxen toplo1v ; a doggetohunt,and fo.of~he reil. Now this-can– not be wit.houtan autbor,without a maker,from whom tbey have their beginning. So likewife .this is plaine.bytheeffe{ts; forthis ·isa fure rule, Whatfocve.r it is, that .hath no other end, ·but it felfe, -that feekes .to provide for itsownehappi~ neffe,in looking no further than it felfe; and this isonely in God, blcifed forever.; hechath no end . but himfelfe,.no caufe ab(}ve himfelfe, therefore he lookes onely to hirnfelfe,and therein cloth his · happineffecGefift. Takeany thing that will not goe ·outof its:ow?e fpbeare,but dwels within its ownc C()mpaffe, frands upon its owne hottome 1 to feck its happindfe,that thing defl:roys it feife; jlooke to any of the creatures, and let them not lfiirre out of their owne fhell, they periili there. ,So,take a·man that bathno further end than himfe1fe, Jet him fecke himfelfe, make himfelfe his end in all things bedorh, Iookeonely tohisown ~ r· profit and conunodity, fitch a man defiroyes himfelfe: for he is made to ferve Qod, and men, and thereindotshis happincfle confi fi, becaufe thafhe is madefor fuch anend : take tbo fe that · havebeene ferviccabic to God,andmen,thdt have fpent tbemfclvcs· in· ferving God~ with -a perfetl: heart,\ye feet hat fuch men are happie men; and doe wee not finde it by experience, that thofe · - that - .)
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