(r) We would have all good men to be always Happy.] That is in a State of Happiness in every condition; having a Title to the paternal Providence of God upon his Promise. Had man persevered in Primitive Righteousness; his Body would have been passible, and the operativeness of external Agents no less efficacious; so that his security must have been in the Divine Protection from harmful Casualties, and supply of needful Enjoyments. When there is argu'd from perfect Vertue, to compleat Happiness, the Divine Favour and Bounty must necessarily be included; for when we say Ver∣tue is its own reward, it is not intended that the Vertuous have their Labours for their Pains. Complacency of mind in fulfilling a Law, ariseth from the Sense of our having pro∣moted the ends of it in mutual Preservation; and conse∣quently our own; or in having acquir'd the good Graces of the Law-giver by Obedience; but to solve the doubt, why ever it should go ill with the Good, as it is often seen to do; we must partly discount for the Defects of Goodness here, and consider temporary Evils in such, order'd for the bettering of the mind.
(s) Nor the Teachers of us both.] Antiochus and Aristus.
(t) Nor those Ancients, Aristotle.] These were Doctors of the Peripatetick Chair. Aristotle considering that man is made up of Soul and Body, which requires Necessaries and Conveniencies of Life, when he was in quest of the Good of Man, concluded it to be conjunctly in the Mind, together with the Body and external Circumstances. Health and