14 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



neither physick nor philosophy can make mortal 

 immortal. There's neither energy nor excellen- 

 cy in the superficial form. Vertue lies conceal'd 

 as a jewel in a cabinet. No man, therefore, can 

 be read by his species. 



Arn. To grant your conclusion, proves the 

 thing less difficult in knowing others, than to 

 search within to know ourselves. Solomon had 

 wisdom and divine discoveries ; and Saul had 

 courage to encounter the Philistines. 



Theoph. That authority that tolerates Solo- 

 mon to have wisdom, the same authority con- 

 cludes Saul inquisitive after witches. 



Arn. Admit it does, (what then ?) that power 

 that gives life a being, is indisputably more 

 noble than the thing that has life. God created 

 the world, and by wisdom animated it with 

 life ; so that life shines everywhere, in every in^ 

 dividual. This is manifest to every man, and 

 every creature, that breaths in the creation. 



Theoph. This I agree in ; but I can't recon- 

 cile myself to your opinion, that Solomon and 

 Saul's case run in parallel lines. Lucifer and 

 Michael, though stars of the first magnitude, yet 

 they paid not equal adoration to their sovereign 

 superiour. 



Arn . I don't question but you will grant that 

 nothing has life of itself, but from something 

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