If one looks at their lives, who live by no rule but their own humours and fancies; if one sees what it is, which they call _joy_, and _greatness_, and _happiness_; if one sees how they rejoice and repent, change and fly from one delusion to another, one shall find great reason to rejoice, that God hath appointed a _narrow_ way that leadeth unto life, and that we are not left to the folly of our own minds, or forced to take up with such shadows of happiness, as the folly of the world has invented. I say _invented_, because those things which make up the _joy and happiness_ of the world, are mere _inventions_, which have no foundation in nature, are no way the proper good or happiness of man, no way perfect either his body or his mind. 2. *As, for instance, when a man proposes to be happy in ways of _ambition_, by raising himself to some _imaginary heights_ above other people. This is an _invention_ of happiness which has no foundation in nature, but it is as mere a cheat of our own making, as if a man should intend to make himself happy by _climbing_ up a _ladder_. *If a _woman_ seeks for happiness from _fine colours_ or _spots_ upon _her face_, from _jewels_ and _rich cloaths_, this is as merely an _invention_ of happiness, as contrary to _nature_ and _reason_, as if she should propose to make herself happy, by painting a _post_, and putting the same finery upon it. It is in this respect that I call these mere _inventions_ of happiness, because neither God, nor nature, nor reason, hath appointed them as such; but whatever appears joyful or happy in them, is entirely invented by the blindness and vanity of our own minds. And it is on these inventions of happiness, that I desire you to cast your eye, that you may thence learn how _great a good_ religion is, which delivers you from such a multitude of follies, and vain pursuits, as are the torment of minds that wander from their true happiness in God. 3. *Look at _Flatus_, and learn how miserable they are, who are left to the folly of their own passions. _Flatus_ is rich and in health, yet always uneasy, and always searching after happiness. Every time you visit him, you find some new project in his head; he is eager upon it as something that is more worth his while, and will do more for him, than any thing that is already past. Every new thing so seizes him, that if you was to take him from it, he would think himself quite undone. His sanguine temper, and strong passions, promise him so much happiness in every thing, that he is always cheated, and is satisfied with nothing.