The Eple Dedicatory,. dothpowerfully corrupt the mind : It breedeth many dangerous errors, and vices ; and it maketh ufelefs that knowledge which menhave : fo that though fuch men can fpeak the fame words as another, about the matters of the life to come, it is but dre-amingly, and, without life. Their Knowledge bathbutdittle power ,on their hearts and lives. The world is fo Great with them, which is as nothing, that God and everkifling life are as nothing to them, which are 411. They are lofullofthe creature that they haveno room for chrifi : and fo bu. fieabout earth, that they have but little time for hcip- ven : and talk fo much fweetnefs in their prefent pomp, that they cannot rein the true anddurable de- lights. Theyknow their tdifor.dr, as theyknow fome Aftronomical, or Geometrical verities, by an opinion or uneffeaual Knowledge : fo that indeed they Know Not what they Know. Paufanias in his profperity de- firing to hear fome fecrets of Philofoph-y, had no more from simonides but, Remember that thou art a man : He contemned this at the prefent, as a ridiculous Me= mentoof that which no man could forget : But when he was reduced toan extremity, he then remembred the Philofophers leffon and perceived there was more: in it, then he underftood when he contemned it. How little is there in a profperous Rate, that fhould Teem clearable in a wife mans eyes e -why is it that great travellors and ftatermen, and all that have molt tryed the world, defire to withdraw from it, toward the evening of their age, and to retire themfelves into a private life, that theymay there look towards -eter- nal things,and cry out of the Vanity and Vexation which they have here found Muff we not conceive them wifer after much experience, then before d and there- ( b 3) ,fo:e
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