10. These are all the _substantial_ and _regular_ parts of _Feliciana_’s happiness; and she never knew a pleasant day in her life, but it was owing to some one, or more, of these things. It is for this happiness, that she has always been deaf to the reasonings of religion, that her heart has been too gay and chearful to consider what is _right_ or _wrong_ in regard to eternity; or to listen to the sound of such dull words, as _wisdom_, _piety_, and _devotion_. It is for fear of losing some of this happiness, that she dares not meditate on the immortality of her soul, consider her relation to God, or turn her thoughts towards those joys, which make saints and angels infinitely happy in the presence and glory of God. But let it be observed, that as poor a round of happiness as this appears, yet most women that avoid the restraints of religion for a gay life, must be content with very small parts of it. As they have not _Feliciana_’s fortune; so they must give away the comforts of a pious life, for a very small part of her happiness. 11. And if you look into the world, and observe the lives of those women, whom no arguments can persuade to live wholly unto God, you will find most of them such, as lose all the comforts of religion without gaining the tenth part of _Feliciana_’s happiness. They are such as spend their times and fortunes only in mimicking the pleasures of richer people; and rather look and long after, than enjoy those delusions, which are not to be purchased but by considerable fortunes. But if a woman of _high_ birth and _great_ fortune, having read the gospel, should rather wish to be an _under servant_ in some pious family, where wisdom, piety, and great devotion, directed all the actions of every day; if she should rather wish this, than to live at the top of _Feliciana_’s happiness, I should think her neither _mad_ nor _melancholy_; but that she judged as rightly of the spirit of the gospel, as if she had rather wished to be _poor Lazarus_ at the gate, than to be the rich man _cloathed in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously every day_. *But to proceed, would you know what an happiness it is, to be governed by the wisdom of religion, look at the poor condition of _Succus_, whose greatest happiness is a _good night_’s rest in bed, and a _good meal_ when he is up. When he talks of happiness, it is always in such expressions as shews you, that he has only his bed and his dinner in his thoughts.