But to see and consider the _emptiness_ and error of all worldly happiness, to see the _grossness_ of _sensuality_, the _poorness_ of pride, the _stupidity_ of covetousness, the _vanity_ of dress, the _blindness_ of our passions, the _uncertainty_ of our lives, and the _shortness_ of all worldly projects; these are meditations that are suited to all capacities. They require no depth of thought, or sublime speculation; but are forced upon us by all our senses, and taught by almost every thing that we see and hear.
This is that _Wisdom that crieth, and putteth forth her voice in the streets_, Prov. viii. 1. that standeth at all our doors, that appealeth to all our senses, teaching us in every thing and every where, by all that we see, and all that we hear, by births ♦and burials, by sickness and health, by life and death, by pains and poverty, by misery and vanity, and by all the changes of life; that there is nothing else for man to look after, no other end in nature for him to drive at, but a happiness in religion.
♦ duplicate word removed ‘and’