Who is he among the Sons of Men, that in his natural Life hath attained to a state wherein he was able to say, Here I will stay, it is now well with me, I desire no Addition to my present Condition? If there be any such, I dare undertake to prove him unacquainted with him∣self. And whosoever shall enter into himself, and feel the Workings of his own Mind, shall be able to read over the Transcript of the same in his own Conscience.

When he had taken a Taste of all the World's Contents, yet he finds a Bitterness mixed in all Delights, which abideth longer than the Pleasure, ver. And also Solomon, who had an extraordinary measure of Wisdom by Divine Dispensation, who had a large Spirit, like the Sand of the Sea-shore, he gave himself great Liberty in trying what that Good under the Thus Jacob of old, in the account which he gives of his Life to Pharaoh, Gen. THose who have improved their Expe∣rience of things by Wisdom, and ga∣thered up the Value of Man's Life by comparing his Desire with his Enjoy∣ments, his Troubles and Sorrows with his Con∣tent and Joy, have concluded the worth of the Life of Man to be below nothing they have drawn a black Line upon the whole, and shut up all in Darkness. Acquaint now thy self with him, and be at Peace: thereby Good shall come unto thee.

Worst afflictions darkest dungeon