THAT MAN is the worthieft Character in this Stage of Life; paffes through it with the highest Satisfaction and Dignity; and paves the Way to the most easy and honourable Old-age. Finally, He who, in the The happiest DECLINE OF LIFE preferves Old-age. himself moft exempt from the Chagrins. incident to that Period; cherishes the moft equal and kind Affections; ufes his Experience, Wifdom and Authority in the moft fatherly and venerable manner; acts under a Sense of the Inspection, and with a View to the Approbation of his Maker; is daily afpiring after Immortality, and ripening apace for it; and having fuftained his Part with Integrity and Consistency to the last, quits the Stage with a modest and graceful Triumph; THIS is the best, this is the happiest OLD-MAN. Therefore that whole Life of The happiest Youth, Manhood and Old-age Life. which is spent after this mannner, is the BEST and the HAPPIEST LIFE. H6, who has the strongest The good "Original Propenfion to fuch Man. "Sentiments and Difpofitions, has the "best NATURAL Temper." "He, who "culti TheVirtuous, « cultivates them with the greatest Care, "is the moft VIRTUOUS Cha"racter." "HE, who knows "to indulge them in the most discreet and The Wife, the confiftent manner, is the "WISEST. "And HE, Fortunate Man. 66 "who, with the largest Capacities, has the best Opportunities of indulging them, is the moft FORTu NATE. A Life according to Nature. "To form our Life upon "this Plan is to FOLLOW "NATURE", that is to fay, ❝to act in a Conformity to our Original Conftitution, and in a Subordination to the "Eternal Order of Things. And, by acting in this manner, (fo benevolently are we formed by our common Parent!) "we effectually promote and fecure our "higheft Intereft." THUS, at laft it appears, (and who would not rejoice in fo Di-. vine a Conftitution ?) that "DUTY, WISDOM and HAPPINESS CO"incide, and are one." Duty, Wifdom and Happiness are one. The Sum and Perfection of To conclude: " VIRTUE "is the higheft -Exercise and "Improvement of REASON; "the "the Integrity, the Harmony, and juft "Balance of AFFECTION; the Health, "Strength and Beauty of the MIND." "The PERFECTION of Virtue is to give "REASON free Scope; to obey the Au thority of CONSCIENCE with Alacrity; "to exercise the Defenfive Paffions with "FORTITUDE; the Private with TEM .. PERANCE; the Public with JUSTICE; " and all of them with PRUDENCE; that ❝is, in a due Proportion to each other, "and an entire Subferviency to a calm dif fufive BENEVOLENCE; to adore and "love GOD with a difinterested and unri valled AFFECTION; and to acquiesce in "his Providence with a joyful Refignation." "Every Approach to this Standard is an Approach to Perfection and HAPPINESS. "And every Deviation from it, a Deviation to VICE and MISERY." From this whole REVIEW of HUMAN NATURE, the moft divine and joyful of all Truths breaks upon us with full Evidence and Luftre; "That MAN is li A noble and joyful Corol lary. berally provided with Senfes and Capa"cities for enjoying Happiness; furnished "with Means for attaining it; taught by "his |