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-so many men-so many minds and opinions.
A desire for happiness is planted in all men by the constitution of nature. This is so intrinsic and so innate in nature, that it is so engraved in it, that even the fall of Adam, as great as it was, has not blotted it out.
This desire for happiness is left in man for a stock to graft holiness on. God grafts the plant of grace upon the stock of nature. Indeed happiness, like Rachel,...

Several great points, which refer to the saints present blessedness, and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions.
Here you have also the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved, against men of corrupt minds, etc. Who boldly, in pulpit and press, contend against those glorious truths of the Gospel.
You have farther eleven serious singular pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make, to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, which speak of the general Judgment, and of that particular Judgment, that must...