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ANother Folly is to do that first, which should be done last: To do that to Excess, which should be confined to a Mean: For in Musick the Mean is the sweetest Note. To take care for a temporal before an Eternal Inheritance is a like
folly: For Pleasure (I mean temporal Joy) is not Sin, but the manner of using it in a wrong way and manner makes it a sin, and a breach of the Antient Order. Then let us not rank the Excess of Vertue in the Predicament of Vice
Thus Man, because he will not give to his Soul the thing that he craves after, makes his Soul an Eternal Beggar or Craver, and yet shall never pro∣cure the thing craved. Here's the Wo: Here is the Misery: Here's the Hell. Wo to thee, O Humane Land, when thy King is a Beggar; and an ignorant Child: And thy Princes eating in the Morning of their Eternity, devour all, and are in want when the time of Hunger comes. But blessed art thou, O Micro∣c••smical City, when thy King is the Son of the Noble Deity, and thy Princes eat of the Tree of Life in due Season, for their Eternal Health, and Joy of their Everlasting Lives. Blessed art thou, O Immortal Man, that Livest for ever in this pure Life: But cur∣sed for ever art thou, O Immortal Man, that choos∣est to d••e, or to be for ever feeling Death's Pro∣perty, which is Eternal Pain.
This therefore in short is the sum of this Eternal Law: Eat not of Poyson, where Two Properties strive for Mastery: Lut feed on the Tree of the Joyous Life: O Man-King live for ever: Eat, drink, and make thy self morry in the Divine Sport: And satisfie thy Mind 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Eternal Delights, for there is no Pleasure after the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Death, which is a Living Death, and an Eternally Dying-Life; No Wisdom nor Skill to sind this Life, in the Crave of Anguish whither thou goest.