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it to its moft advantage. If my ayme therein 

 doe prove fucceflTefull, you will with more 

 eafe digeft thofe inconveniences &c diftrefies, 

 which already you have begun to be acquain- 

 ted with , and that threaten daily worfe 

 unto you. For how can a man iuffer his 

 heart to be dejected at the privation of any 

 temporall blefsings, whiles he confidereth the 

 inanity of them 5 and that nothing is worthy 

 his ferious thought, but what may accompa- 

 ny him to his eternall habitation ? What nee- 

 de:h he feare the delegations of Warre,and the 

 word that they can do againft him, who have 

 his eftate in their power,when he may be rich 

 with a much nobler trealure, that none but 

 himfelfe can rob him of? Without doubt, he 

 that fhall feriouily reflect upon the excellency 

 of his owne nature, and upon the admirable 

 perfect and happy ftate he flial moft certainly 

 arrive unto, if he but weane himfelfe from 

 thofe worldly impediments ,that here clog his 

 Joules flight 5 cannot choofe but look with a 

 difdainfull eye, upon the glittering trifles, 

 that weak ipirits delight themielves withall. 

 If he deeme it not requifite (as of old, the fa- 

 mous wife man did) to throw away thole 



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