whom men make honeft without an 

 Kivm, who contemned life without 

 couragement of immortality,and makin 

 nothing after death, yet made nothing o 

 the Kiog of terrours* 

 * Were the happinefle of the next worl 

 as cl ofely apprehended as the felicities 

 this, it were a martyrdome to live ; 

 unto fuch as confider none hereafter, 

 muftbemore then death to dye, whi 

 y" makes usfemazed at thofe audacities, t 

 / durft be nothing, and return into thei 

 Chaos again. Certainly fuch fpirits 

 could contemn death, when they 

 | pefted no better being after, would ha 

 iJcorned to live had they known any 

 And therefore we applaud not the judg 

 ment of Machtivel, that Chrifti 

 makes men cowards, or that with 

 confidence of but half dying, the defpi 

 fed virtues of patience and humility 

 have aba fed the fpirits of men, whi 

 Pagan principles exalted, but rather re 

 gulated the wildenefle of audacities , 

 the attempts, grounds, and et email 

 quels of death 5 wherein men of 

 boldefl: fpirits are often prodigioufly t 

 inerarious, Nor can we extenuate t 



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