128 THE CONCLVSION. 



celfe of it, over the foule of an abortive embry on, (chough by the 

 (eparation, growne never fo knowing, and never fo perfect) icfinit- 

 iy greater, then the dignity and wifedcwne of (uch a man, is above 

 the feebleneffe and miferie of a new animated child. Therefore have 

 patience my foule : repine not at thy longer day here in this vaile 

 ofmifery, where thoa art banilhedrVorn thofeunfpeakeablejoyea 

 thou feed at hand before thee. Thou (halt have an overflowing re* 

 ward for thy enduring and patienting in this thy darkfome prifon. 

 Deprive not thy felfe through mifchievous haft, of the great hopes 

 and admirable felicity that attend thee, canft thou but with due tent- 

 per (lay for it. Be content to let thy (lock lye out a while at intered; 

 thy profits wil come in v ft proporcion?;and every yeare,every day, 

 every houre, will pay thee intereft upon intereft : and the longer it 

 runneth on, the more it muhiplyeth: and in the account thou (Ink 

 finde, if thou proceeded as thou (houldeft, that one moment often* 

 times bringeth in a greater increafe unto thy itocke of treafure,then 

 the many yeares thou didit live and trade before : and the longer 

 thou lived, the thicker will thefe moments arrive unto thee. In like 

 manner as in Arithmeticall numeration, every addition of the lead 

 figure, muldplyeth the whole fome it findeth. Here thou wilt prove 

 how true that rich man faid 3 who of his -gaines pronounced , 

 that hee had gotten little with great labour , and great 

 fummes with little : fo if thou bedowed well thy time, thy latter 

 fummes will bring thee in huge accounts of gaine , upon fmall tx- 

 pence of paines or imployments ; whereas thy firft beginnings are 

 toy lefome and full of paine, and being in but (lender profit. 



By this time,my (oulej am fure thou art fatijficd,that the excefle 

 of knowledge & of pleafure,which thou (halt enjoy, is vaftly beyond 

 any thou art capeable of here. But how may we efteeme the juft pro- 

 portion they have to one another ? (Or rathe/ is not the pleafure of 

 a Separated foule, fo infinitly beyond all that can be relifhed by one 

 embodied here in clay t that there is no proportion betweene them . ? 

 At the lead, though we are not able to meafure the one, let us doe 

 our bed to ay me and guefie at the improportion betweene them, 

 and rejoyce that we finde that it is beyond our reach to conceive or 

 immagine any thing, nigh the truth & the huge excefle of thy good 

 ( my foule ) over the mod I am capeable of in this world. It is a- 

 greed, that the vehemence and intenfentflc of any pleafure, is pro- 

 portionable to the adivity,power,and energy of the fubje, which 



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