But even though this life encompasses living happily, as well as living well, yet living well is more excellent than living happily; and what ought to be respected chiefly and finally is not blessedness, which respects our profit, but goodness, which is referred to God's glory. Therefore Divinity is better defined by that good life whereby we live to God, than by a blessed life whereby we live to ourselves as by a Synecdoche, the Apostle calls it the doctrine which lives according to God, 1 Tim. 6.3.

William Ames, The Marrow of Theology, bk. 1, chap. 1, thesis 8