! /^o Of the Advancement of Learning. L i e. VII. 



fhall be endangered. Nay, we are invited to this imitation, Blefs 

 ^vat.1. them that curfc you.and pray for thetn that defpftefully nfeyon^ and perfe- 



cute y otijt hat yoMffiay bethejons of your father which is in Heaven: for he 

 mak^cs his Sim to rife on the Evil, and on the Good j and fends rain up- 

 on theJHJi^ and upon the trnjuB, So in the firft Platform of the Di- 

 vine Nature, the Heathen Religion placeth Gods Attributes thus, 

 ^ ■''*'* Optimus Maximis '-i and facrcd Scripture fpeaks thus, Alifericordia e* 

 JHs^fupra omnia opera ejus. 



§ Wherefore we have now concluded this part of Aioral KnovP' 

 ledge concerning the Culture and Regiment of the Mind-^ wherein if 

 any from a contemplation of the Portions thereof, which we have 

 ftridly enumerated, doth judge that our labour is only this,ftf Collet 

 and Digeji, into an Art or Science^ that which hath been pretermitted 

 by other writers^ as matters of common fenfe and experience , and of 

 themfelves clear and perfpicuous , let him freely enjoy his judgement : 

 yet in the mean time let him be pleafed to remember what we pre- 

 monifht at firft 3 that our purpofe was not toyurfue the flourilh and 

 beauty of things ^ but their ufe and verity. Like wife let him a 

 while ponder in his mind thait invention of the Ancient Parable ^ 

 touching the two gates of Jleep. 



Sunt geminx fomni Porta, quarum altera fertur 

 Virg, un,6. Cornea, qua verisfacilis datur exitus umbris. 



Altera candenti perfect a nitens Elephant 

 Sedfalfa ad Cesium mittunt infomnia Manes. 



A gate of Ivory is indeed very ftately, but true Dreams pafs throughj 

 \\\tgate of Horn. \ 



IV, By wayof fuppliment, that obfervation about Aloral Know- 

 ledge, may be fetdown, which is, that there is akjndof relation and 

 conformity between the Good of the Mind, and the Good of the Body, 

 For as the Good of the Body confiiis , as hath been faid, of Healthy 

 Beauty, Srength and Pleafure : So the Good of the Mind , if we con- 

 fider it according to the Axioms and Precepts oi Moral Knowledge, we 

 fhall perceive tend to this point, to make the mind found, and dif- 

 charg' d from perturbation'^ beautiful and graced with the ornaments of 

 true decencyifirong to all duties of life:LaJily,notfiupid,but retaining an 

 oBive and lively fenfe of plcafure,and honeji recreation. But thefe four, 

 as in the body , fo in the mind, feldom meet altogether. For it is 

 ea(ie to obCcTve, that many have ftrength of wit and courage 5 who 

 yet notwithftanding are infefted with perturbations, and whofc man- 

 ners are little feafbn'd with Elegancy and Beauty of Behaviour, in 

 their doings : S^me again, have an Elegancy and Finenels of Car- 

 riage, which have neither Soundnels of Honefty, nor Subftance of 

 Sufficiency in their doings : fof»e have honeft Minds, purified from 

 the ftain of Guilt, which yet can neither become themfelves, nor 

 manage bufinels : Others which perchance are capable of all thefe 

 three Qualities 3 but pofTeft a with fullen humour of Stoical ladnefs, 



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