The thing] Happinesse cannot be extracted out of the creature; never was, nor ever can be. no new thing] Though some kinde of new inventions be, as Gunpowder, Printing, the Mariners Compasse, &c. yet but of the old stamp, as to this maine use and purpose; they come still from defective and insufficient principles of happinesse, chap. III. 15. no new thing out of which man can extract real content, comfort, and satisfaction, or any principle of true happinesse and blessednesse, more then out of old and former things. And indeed Solomon speaks here of natural things, and their natural actions.