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holy Revelations or Illuminations will occur, which enlighten the Soul, and enable it the better to live, and act vertuously. Diogenes.

The great Bleflings of Mankind are within us, and within our reach.Tranquillity is an Equality of Mind, which no Condition of Fortune can either exalt or deprefs. Seneca.

What things are agreeable to God cannot be known, unless a Man hear God himself. Pythagoras and his Sect. The Worship of God confifteth not in Words, but in Deeds. Mar.. Aurelwat tiendea to bo

It is a right Honourable and Blessed Thing, to ferve God, and reverence. his Name. Pythagoras. Fi!

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Of the Soul of Man, its Immortality. and Excellency; Of Confcience of Man's Life, and the Cares and Trou bles thereof Of Natural Death, and Future Rewards.

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AN is a Creature made by God of two Parts: Of a Soul everlasting, immortal; of Subftance immaterial, wherein are Reafon, Wifdom, and Knowledge: And of a Body frail and corruptible, made of the four Elements, whereof cometh Life and Senfe. Plato.

Wisdom, Difcretion, and Knowledge, come not of the Body; then, feeing they be the best Things in Man,. they must come of a better Thing: And better than the Elements (whereof Man is made) is nothing, faving. God, and the Spirit and Power proceeding from him; then is thy Reafon or Soul either of God or his Spirit, and fo of it felf Immortal and Incorruptible. Pythagoras. S He is worthy of God's Fellowship,

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who doth nothing unworthy of God;; but thinketh on Godly and Heavenly Matters, and fpeaketh as he thinketh, and doeth as he fpeaketh. Aga petus.

Truth, Honour, and Seemlinefs, wherewith the more we are decked, adorned, and beautified, the farther off we shall be from the Brutih-nefs of Beasts, and approach the nearer unto the Divine Nature, which of it felf is only moft Excellent, and therefore moft efpecially to be..embraced. Tullius.

All Men are by Nature equal, made all by one Workman of like Clay; and (how foever we deceive our felves) as dear unto God is the poor Beggar, as the most pompous Prince living in the World. Plato

Wo be to him, who contemning the Exccellency of his own Nature, and the Dignity that is in him, ferveth only his Bodily Lufts, defiling his own Soul, through his Vile De fires and Beaftly Delights. Socrates.

He ceaseth to be a Man, and is indeed but a brute Beaft, who leaveth the Rules of Reason, and giveth his

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Mind only to the fulfilling of his Bodily Luft. Zeno.

The most Precious and Excellent Thing, which God hath created here on Earth, is Man; and the Richest Thing to him, is the Soul and Reafon, by which he keepeth Juftice, and efcheweth Sin. Hermes.

If Alexander take my Head, and flay me, he hall not destroy my Soul, which will return to God; while the Body, which was taken out of the Earth, fhall thereunto return. Dind. to Alex's Ambaffodors.

The Soul is an incorruptible Subftance, apt to receive either Joy or Pain, both here and elfewhere. Solon.

By the Juftice of God, the Soul must needs be Immortal, and therefore no Man ought to neglect it; for tho' the Body die, yet the Soul dieth

not. Plato.

The Souls of the Good shall live in a better Life; but the Souls of the Evil in a worfe. Socrates.

If Death were the Diffolution both of Body and Soul, then happy were the Wicked, who being rid of their Body, fhould also be rid of their Soul

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and Wickednefs: But forafmuch as it is evident, that the Soul is Immortal, there is left no Comfort for the Wicked to truft in. Plato.

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The Immortality of the Soul excludeth all Hope from the Wicked, and establisheth the Good in their Goodnefs. Plato.\\

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The Delights of the Soul are to know its Maker, to confider the Works of Heaven, and to know her own Eftate and Being. Ariftotle. The Night feemeth tedious unto a Man, and dark; how much rather a Soul deftitute of the Light of God, and darkned with Sin! The goodly Beauty of the Body, pleaseth the Eyes, but how precious a thing is the Beauty of the Soul! Solon.

The good Soul grafteth Goodness, the Fruit whereof is Salvation; but the Evil planteth Vices, whofe Fruit is Damnation. Boetius.

The good Soul is known, in that it gladly receiveth Truth; and the Evil, by the delight that it hath in Lies.

The Souls of the Good are forrow. ful for the Works of the Wicked.

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