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and if we be cast into such circumstances, that we must be either in part and for a time or else wholly and always miserable, the best wisdom is to chuse the greatest and most lasting happiness, but the least and shortest misery. Upon this account Religion prefers those pleasures which flow from the presence of God for evermore, infinitely before the transitory pleasures of this world, |
and if we be cast into such Circumstances, that we must be either in part and for a time or Else wholly and always miserable, the best Wisdom is to choose the greatest and most lasting happiness, but the least and Shortest misery. Upon this account Religion prefers those pleasures which flow from the presence of God for evermore, infinitely before the transitory pleasures of this world, |
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