all natures, who placed the human race upon earth as its greatest ornament, imparted to men some good things adapted to this life, to wit, temporal peace, such as we can enjoy in this life from health and safety and human fellowship, and all things needful for the preservation and recovery of this peace, such as the objects which are accommodated to our outward senses, light, night, the air, and waters suitable for us, and everything the body requires to sustain, shelter, heal, or beautify it:  and all under this most equitable condition, that every man who made a good use of these advantages suited to the peace of this mortal condition, should receive ampler and better blessings , namely, the peace of immortality , accompanied by glory and honor in an endless life made fit for the enjoyment of God and of one another in God ; but that he who used the present blessings badly should both lose them and should not receive the others. The whole use, then, of things temporal has a reference to this result of earthly peace in the earthly community, while in the city of God it is connected with eternal peace. And therefore, if we were irrational animals , we should desire nothing beyond the proper arrangement of the parts of the body and the satisfaction of the appetites, -- nothing, therefore, but bodily comfort and abundance of pleasures, that the peace of the body might contribute to the peace of the