The Art of Contentment (Classic Reprint)

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But this concurrence asto the end in not more univerfal then the diff: greement about the may. Every man would have happinefs, hut wherein that confi/ls; or how itixs to 'hee'at atain d, has hin very diverfl) opin 'd. Indeed the ultimate jupreme happi nefnas it is originally inherent in God, [0 iti/s wrapt up in thofe clouds and darknefi, which; as the Pfizlmifl fizies, ' are round about him Pfal.1 8. 1 1. And we can fife nothing of tt, ' hut in thoe gleams and raies he pleas' d to dart out upon us fi)that all our cfiimates a; to our final feli pity mufl hemefitr'd h} thofie revela-é tions he has made of it..: the 'prefa'ae.

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