[ 1318] No true Happinesse to be found in the best of Creatures here below.
SOlomon having made a Critical enquiry after the excellency of all Creature-comforts,* 1.1 gives this in as the Ultimate extraction from them all, Vanity of va∣nities, all is vanity: And have not all of us great experience, how loose the World hangs about us? If you go to the Creature to make you happy, the Earth will tell you, that happinesse growes not in the ••urrows of the Field; the Sea, that it is not in the Treasures of the deep;* 1.2 Cattel will say, It is not on our backs; Crowns will say, It is too pretious a gem to be found in us; we can adorn the head, but we cannot satisfie the heart. It is true, that these Worldly earthly things can benefit the outward and the Natural Man; but to look for peace of Conscience, ••oy in the Holy Ghost, inward and durable comfort in any thing which the World affords, is to seek for treasure in a Cole-pit, a thing altogether improbable to be found there.