---- The Epiftle Dedicatory. ing back fomewbat from the publick, he brought forth wooden platter, and did (wear, That it was all he had refereed to himfelf of the fpoyls. He 'WM had in great honour and reputation among the people. That Pilot dies nobly (faith Seneca) who perifh- eth in the ftorm with the Helm in his hand. Ariftides VMS a man of a publick fpirit; after the overthrow of the Perfians, when there was a Mafs of treafure, gold, filver, and rich apparel, he would net touch it, nor take fo much as one farthing of it to himfelf, he was in high e fleens among thepeople. Tully in his Book of Scipio's dream; brings in a dead Father (now in heaven as he fteppofed) encouraging his [onto do fervice for his Countrey (wherein himfelf had given him a molt noble and notable example) upon a very high confideration, viz. There is a rnefl Pare and certain place in heaven for every man that /hall procure the weal of his Countrey, either by freeing it from peril, or increafing the happinefs of it any way. To hear a Gen- tile tell ot' heaven, as of a thing certain ; to hear him tell of certain places provided thete for thole that fliould do vertuoufly, to have the fervice of ones Countrey pre fed On his foul with fo celeflial an argument, what matter of wonder and admiration is it ! Another fpeaking of men of publick fpirits, faith, Such ennobled fpirits, they are the dear off-fpring, the delight and care of God 5 a tivine race it is,from the heavens they come down to us, and to the hea vens again when ever they take their leaves of us, (hall they triumphantly return. Cicere;.
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