Indeed Happiness, like Rachel, is so fair and so beautiful a thing, that every one is apt to fall in love with it, and earnestly to desire it yea many there be, that would serve twice seven years to enjoy it but by the standing Law of that heavenly Countrey above, the younger sister must never be bestowed before the elder you can never enjoy fair Rachel, Heaven and Happiness, except you are first married to tender-eyed Leah, real holiness he that will have heaven, must have union and communion with Christ: and he that will have union and communion with Christ, 2 Cor.
This desire of happiness is left in man for a stock to graft holiness on: God grafts the plant of Grace upon the stock of nature.
All men in the general desire to be happy, but all men do not desire in this or that particular, or in this or that way to be happy here there is an infinite difference, quot homines tot sententiae, so many men so many minds.Ī desire of happiness is planted in all men by the constitution of nature this is so intrinsecal, and so innate in nature, it is so ingraven in it, that even the fall of Adam, as great as it was, hath not blotted it out.