2 ^PERSUASIVE to 



' : & Honour KK& Tower, whom he denomi- 

 nates aroA^o/* which things cannot make us 

 happy: Becaufe, 



i. They are not in our Power, but may 

 forcibly be taken away from us ; and fhould 

 they continue with us during Life, at Death 

 we muft neceflarily part with them. 



a. They make us not better, being com- 

 mon to good and bad. Now if bad Men 

 may poflefs them, they cannot render us hap- 

 py ; becaufe, as the Poet truly faith, Nemo 

 mains felixj No wicked Man can be happy. 



3. They cannot fatisfie the vaft defires, 

 or fill the Capacity of the Soul. The Soul 

 of Man is fpiritual and immortal, and there- 

 fore Bocjily Pleafures, or Temporal Enjoy- 

 ments are no way fuitable to it, nor of an- 

 fwerable duration, 



My bufinefs iff the following Difcotirfe, 

 lhall be, to prove that a Holy Life is the 

 only Happy Life, even in this World, ad- 

 vancing us to as high a degree of Happinefs 

 as w^e are capable of in this Imperfed: State, 

 and the only preparatory to a State of Eter- 

 nal Felicity in the Woiid to came. 



Before I proceed to prove this, it will 

 be requifite to explain the Terms. 



i. What is meant by Holineft. i. What 

 fey Haffznefs. 



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