SECT. XXV. From whence it follows, that the end of man is happiness after this life.

IF then the soul be of such a nature as contains in it no principles of corruption; and God has given us many tokens, by which we ought to understand, that his will is it should remain after the body; there can be no end of man proposed more worthy of him, than the happiness of that state; and this is what Plato and the Pythagoreans said, that the end of man was to be made most like to God.¹⁸⁵¹⁸⁵   Which the stoics had from Plato, as Clemens remarks, Strom. v. Thus, what happiness is, and how to be secured, men may make some conjectures; but if there be any thing concerning it revealed from God, that ought to be esteemed roost trite and most certain.