42, A PERSUASIVE to 



Death we need not fear, as being to the 

 godly but a pafTage into a better Life ; and 

 confequently are forbidden by our Saviour, 

 to fear men, the word they can do to us 

 being to kill the body. 



Immoderate Sorrow even for our deareft 

 Relations and Friends is forbidden us by 

 the Apoftle^ and yet this is an Affliftion 

 that wounds as deep as any. The ufelef- 

 nefs of forrow for any worldly lofs, fetting 

 afide the ill influence it hath upon our 

 health, is a fufficient argument againft giv- 

 ing way to this Paffion ; Sorrow being fo 

 far from helping us, that it doth but add to 

 our burthen. For what we bring upon 

 our felves by our own default or negli- 

 gence , fo much trouble may be ufeful as 

 to make us more careful for the future, 

 and no more, 



Flagrantior gquo 



Non debet dolor effe viri, nee vulnere ma- 

 jor : * 



A Man's Grief ought not to be immode- 

 rate, not to exceed the caufe of it. 



* Juvenal. Saf. xiii. 



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