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Internal Happinefs confifls in the know- 

 ledge and love of God, manifefted by our 

 obedience to his Commands ; the improve- 

 ment of all our Faculties ; inward peace of 

 Confcience, Joy and Tranquillity of Mind. 



The Happinefs [of the future Eftate, is 

 the* clear Vifion of God, likenefs to him, 

 and union with him by perfect love : i John 

 3.1. We /ball be like him^ for we Jball fee 

 htm as he is. This differs chiefly in de- 

 gree from the precedent. 



Before I run over thefe Heads in particu- 

 lar, I fhall premife two things in general. 



Ftrft, That keeping of God's Command- 

 ments is every way for the good, benefit 

 and advantage of the whole world, and 

 Mankind in general. Sin, 1 which is the 

 breach of God's Law, is the only procuring 

 and productive caufe of all the E\ils and 

 Miferies, Troubles and Diilreffes that are 

 in the world. Did Men generally obey 

 God's Laws, the whole Earth, which is 

 now for the moft part an Akeldama^ or 

 Field of Blood, would be turn'd into a ve- 

 ry Paradife, into a Heaven: Men would 

 then beat their Swords into Plowfhares, 

 and their Spears into Pruning-hooks. Men 

 who now are Wolves and Tygers one to 

 another, who bite and devour one another, 



would 



