THE CONCLVSION. 



upon whom they beate ) cannot choole but worke a mighty diffe- 

 rence, in the fubjeflt chat receiveth them.changing it ftrangely from 

 the condition it was in, before they begun to new mould it. "What 

 if I (hpuld fay 3 the odds be weene two fuch foulet , may peradven- 

 ture bee not unlike the difference, betweene the witts and judge- 

 ments of the fubtlieft Philofopher that: ever was r and of the dulleft 

 childe or idiote Jiving. But this comparifon fatkth too fhort by 

 krrej even fo much, that there is no rcftmblance or proportion 

 betweene th.? things compared : for a* theexcefle of great numbers 

 over one another, drowneth the exceffe of fmatl ones s and maketh 

 it not confidcrable, in refpeft of theirs , although they mould bee 

 in the fame proportion; fo the advantages of a foule, forged to 

 its higheft 'perfection in a mans body, by its long abode there^and 

 by its making right ufeof that pretious time allowed it; mult needs 

 Cin pofitive valew } though not in geometrical! proportion) infinity 

 ly exceede, when it (hall be delivered out of pri(bn, the advantages* 

 which the newly hatched foule of an abortive infant (hall acquite, 

 at the breaking of its chaines. In this caie, 1 beleeve no man would 

 be of Ociars minde , when he wiflied to bee rather the firft man in 

 a contemptible poore village, hee palled through among the deferc 

 mountaines, then the fecond man in Rome. Let us fuppofe , the 

 wealth of the richeft man in that barren habitation, to be one hun- 

 dred Crownes ; and that the next to hirn in fubftance,had but halfe 

 fo much as he : in like manner, in that opulent 0tie, the head of 

 the world, where millions were as familiar as pence in other places, 

 let the exceffe of the richeft mans wealth, be but ( as in the former ) 

 double over his, that commeth next unto him ; and there you (hall 

 finde,thatifthepooreftofthetwo ) be worth fifty millions, theo* 

 (her hath fifty millions more then he : whereas the formers petty 

 treafure, exceedeth his neighbours but by fifty crownes. What pro- 

 portion is there, in the common eftimation of affaires , between that 

 trivial! fumme,and fifty millions 1 Much lefle is there, between the 

 excellency of a (eparated foule, firft perfected in its body, and an o- 

 ther that is fet loofe into compleate liberty, before its body arrived 

 in a naturall courfe, to be delivered into this world, and by its eye 

 to enjoy the light ofit. The change of every foule at its (eparation 

 from the body, to a degree of perfection, above what is en joyed in 

 the body , is in a manner infinite : and by a like infinite proportion, 

 every degree of per/e&ion it had in the body, is alfo then multiply- 



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