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 ver. 270] The influence of self-love operating to the social and publick good.

ver. 284] Restoration of true religion and government on their first principle. Mixt governments; with the various forms of each, and the true use of all.

Of the nature and state of man with respect to happiness.

ver. 27] Happiness the end of all men, and attainable by all.

ver. 47] It is necessary, for order and the common peace, that external goods be unequal, therefore happiness is not constituted in these.

ver. 65] The balance of human happiness kept equal (notwithstanding externals) by hope and fear.

ver. 75] In what the happiness of individuals consists, and that the good man has the advantage, even in this world.

ver. 91] That no man is unhappy thro' virtue.

ver. 167] That external goods are not the proper rewards of virtue, often inconsistent with, or destructive of it; but that all these can make no man happy without virtue, instanced in each of them. 1 Riches. 2 Honours. 3 Titles. 4 Birth. 5 Greatness. 6 Fame. 7 Superior parts.

ver. 300] That virtue only constitutes a happiness, whose object is universal, and whose prospect eternal.

ver. 318, & c.] That the perfection of happiness consists in a conformity to the order of providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter.