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latter, it would follow that the happiest spi-rits ought to be in a state of union with it.&ut sure no attentive man ever thought thatthere consisted any real felicity in being u-tsited to material substance. A paradise of thepleasures of fense is very gross philosophy. ItlS enough that it shall give us no impediment*let, or restraint; the inactivity of it being cor-r eft ed by an infinite motive power ; and thefixedness of it rendering it as little inconveni-ent, from being made up of parts, as if it^ere pure spiritual substance; and that it (hallleave all pther happiness, rational and truePleasures, as accessible to us, and as endleflymcreasible, as if we were not at all concernedWith it. Thus, infinite power intervening , ourbeing united to, or separated from matter, ap-pears a thing indifferent* either as to the de-S r ee, or kind of our happiness. It is true*V/e are subjected to a great siiperphts of painan d trouble, from the present constitution of°Ur bodies, on the most advantageous suppo-sition we can make; wifely, to ssiew us thathappiness is not to be expected here, nor at*11 from the gratifications of sense; and again*tve are made capable of rational pleasure^hich cannot be finissied, or even well begunVol. I. X b