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which when we have, the greateft ufe we make of them, is but 

 to lookeupon them, and court them with ourdazeled eyes; whiles 

 they cncompafle us with armies of tray tours &of hungry wolves, 

 to teare them from us , and us in pieces for their fake. Thus will 

 nature of her felfein afhorttime ,, dull thofe weapon? that offend 

 up 9 and deftroy the enemies of thofe verities that fhine upon iis.Cou- 

 rage then, my foule, and neither feare to live, nor yet defire to die. 

 If thou continueft in thy body, it is eafie for thee , and fweete and 

 contentfome, to heape up treafures for eternity. And if thou par- 

 teft from it, thy hopes are great and faire, that the journey thou art 

 going, is to a world of unknowne fclicitie. Take heart then, and 

 inarch on then with a fecure diligence, and expcft the hand of 

 bounteous nature, to difpofe of thee, according as (hee hath wifely 

 and benignely provided for thee. And feare not but that if thou haft 

 kept a reafomable amity with her, (he will pafTc thee to where thou 

 lhalt never more bee in danger of jarring with her; nor of fee- 

 ling within thy felfe the unkind blowes of contrary powersfighr> 

 ing in thee, whiles thou bleedeft with the woundes that each fide 

 giveth 5 nor of changing thy once gained happinefle into a con- 

 trary condition, according to the vicifluudes of all humane affaires. 

 But (halt For ever, bee f welled to the utmoft extent of thy infinite 

 nature, wich this torrent* with this abifle of joy , pleafure, and 

 delight. 



Buc here (my (bule) well mayeft thou ftand amazed at this great 

 word For ever. What will this be, when fleeting time mill be con- 

 verted into permanent eternity > fturpen thy fight to looke into this 

 vaft profundity. Suppofe that halfe anhoure, were refumed into 

 one jnftant or indivifible of time : what a ftrange kindc of durance 

 would that be? I fee that halfe an houre, is divifible without end, 

 into halfes,and halfesof halfes, and quarters of quarters; and after 

 niyriadesofdivifions,noparcelljs fo little, but that it hath an infi- 

 nite fuperpro.portion to an indivifible inftant. What a prodigious 

 thing tfaenmuft it be,to have an inftantequalife halfe an honre? were 

 it but fome ordinary notion or quiddity, as of magnitude, of place, 

 of activity, or the like,in which this excellency of an indivisibles e- 

 qualifing a large extent, were confidered ; my fantafie would offer 

 to wreftlewithit; and peradventure, by ftrong abftraftion, and 

 by deeperetyrement into the clofet of judgement, I might hazard 

 Co frame fome HkeneflTe of it. But that wherein this multiplication 



is, 



