THE

SECOND PART.

CONTAINING AN

ACCOUNT

Of the LIVING and DYING

SAYINGS

OF

Men Eminent for their GREATNESS, LEARNING, or VIRTUE;

And that of divers Periods of TIME, and NATIONS of the WORLD.

All concurring in this one TESTIMONY, That a Life of ftrict VIRTUE, viz. To do Well, and bear Ill, is the Way to lafting Happiness.

Collected in Favour of the TRUTH delivered in the FIRST PART.

By WILLIAM PEN N.

The ELEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON: Printed and Sold by MARY HINDE, 1770.

THE

PREFACE.

N° O CROSS, NO CROWN, should have ended here; but that the Power, Examples, and Authorities have put upon the Minds of People, above the most reasonable and preffing Arguments, inclined me to prefent my Readers with fome of thofe many Instances that might be given, in Favour of the virtuous Life recommended in our Difcourfe. I chose to cast them into three Sorts of Teftimonies, not after the threefold Subject of the Book, but, fuitable to the Times, Qualities, and Circumftances of the Perfons that gave them forth; whofe divers Excellencies and Stations have transmitted their Names with Reputation to our own Times. The first Testimony comes from thofe called Heathens, the fecond from profefs'd Chriftians, and the laft, from Retir'd, Aged, and Dying Men; being their last and Jerious Reflections, to which no Oftentation or worldly Interefts could induce them. Where it will be eafy for the confiderate Reader to obferve, how much the Pride, Avarice, and Luxury of

the

the World, flood reprehended in the Judgments of Perfons of great Credit amonft Men; and what was that Life and Conduct, that in their mot retired Meditations, when their Sight was clearest, and Judgment most free and difabufed, they thought would give Peace here, and lay Foundations of eternal Bleedness.

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The TESTIMONIES of feveral Great, Learned, and Virtuous Perfonages among the Gentiles, urged against the Excelles of the Age, in Favour of the Self-denial, Temperance, and Piety recommended in the first Part of this Difcourfe.

I. Among the GREEKS. viz.

§. 1. Cyrus. §. 2. Artaxerxes. §. 3. Agathocles. §. 4. Philip. §. 5. Alexander. §. 6. Ptolemy. §. 7. Xenophanes. §. 8. Antigonus. §. 9. Themistocles. §. 10. Ariftides. §. 11. Pericles. § 12. Phocion. §. 13. Clitomachus. §. 14. Epaminondas. §. 15. Demofthenes. §. 16. Agaficles. §. 17. Agefilaus. §. 18. Agis. §. 19. Alcamenes. §. 20. Alexandrides. §. 21. Anaxilas. §. 22. Ariston.

nias.

23. Archidamus. §. 24. Cleomenes. §. 25. Derfyllidas. §. 26. Hoppodamus. §. 27. Leonidas. §. 28. Lyfander. §. 29. Paula§. 30. Theopompus, &c. §. 31. The Manner of Life and Government of the Lacedæmonians in general. §. 32. Lycurgus their Law-giver.