ni We all know by experience: That not only fal vigorous Con ftitution of Body, which we call Health) but alfo a fuitable Difpofition of Bodily Parts and Organs, are abfolutely neceffary to partake of fenfual Pleasures.

The brightest Colours, for inftance, and the moft curious Pictures, are no Diverfion to a Blind Man. And the most ravishing Mufick doth as little affect the Man that is Deaf. And the Experiment is the fame in other Delights of a groffer Nature.

The most poinant Sauces, and the richest Wines, are no Relish to a diftemper'd Palate. And there is a time (in the WifeMan's language) When Defire Shall fail.

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And having thus loft our Tafte, the greatest Dainties which this World can prefent, will be flat and infipid.

[Thus Sickness and Diseases, by difabling the Body, and weakening its fenfe of Pleasure, do wean us from this World: And by thus teaching us our Duty, do work for our Good.

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His Sickness and Pain doth work for your Good, by fitting and preparing you for the Hap piness of another World.

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To be Happy, is not only to be in a fine delightful Place, and to have the Local Prefence of delightful Objects; but there is further required, a Capacity to enjoy thofe Objects; and by the Mediation of fuitable Parts and Faculties, to be united to them. Now to explain this diftinctly, I must remind you, that there are Two Sorts of Pleafures; Corporeal and Spiritual.

Corporeal Pleafures are thofe, which the Soul perceives by the Mediation of the Body, and Bodily Senfes. As Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Fafting, Touching. Spiritual Pleafures are thofe, which the Soul perceives by the immediate Exercife of its Rational Faculties, the Understanding and the Will.

To relih Bodily Pleafures there is not only required certain Parts and Organs, (for you cannot See without your Eyes,

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