great Creator, and rejoice in the Being which he has bestowed upon us, for having made the foul fufceptible of pleasure by fo many different ways. We fee by what a variety of paffages joy and gladness may enter into the thoughts of man; how wonderfully a human spirit is framed, to imbibe its proper fatisfactions, and taste the goodness of its Creator. We may therefore look into ourselves with rapture and amazement, and cannot fufficiently express our gratitude to him, who has encompaffed us with such a profufion of bleffings, and opened in us fo many capacities of enjoying them.

There cannot be a ftronger argument that God has defigned us for a state of future happiness, and for that heaven which he has revealed to us, than that he has thus naturally qualified the foul for it, and made it a being capable of receiving so much blifs. He would never have made fuch faculties in vain, and have endued us with powers that were not to be exerted on such objects as are fuitted to them. It is very manifeft, by the inward frame and constitution of our minds, that he has adapted them to an infinite variety of pleasures and gratifications, which are not to be met with in this life. We fhould therefore at all times take care that we do not disappoint this his gracious purpose and intention towards us, and make those faculties which he formed, as fo many qualifications for happiness and rewards, to be the inftruments of pain and punishment.

FINIS.