404 e lob.xzotx.. An fin, Cis A P. 5. Bn Expofition von the (irfi V a a,3 ons ; thinking there could be in no man fuck alacritie in death, without a firong impreffion of immorralitie, So certainly, the feares that Acheats are furprifèd withal! in death, is an Argument thong as any, that thereis a life of the foule, alter it is timed from the body. What tlould I fpeake of that perfeftion, time, that weares out all things corruptible, brings to the reafona- i le foule, and vnderllanding ? The body, the elder it growes, the more feeble ; the fences, that are exercifed by bodily Organs, haue all their decay by age ; whereas the miede, and vnderflanding is perfited by age ; e with the ancient is 1Yifdeme,and in length o fdaìes vnderflanding. I Iprre the teftimonies of Ancient Heathens, that_euety Reader may finde frequent in their writings. That of Dr- D Y s v s King of Bracktnans to Alexander, I cannot let pa ire : Nos non fumnt incolæ huises weundifed adueaa. Nec ita in orbe terrarum venimus,vt in eolibeat con filitere,fed tr,oKre ; properamtu e,üm ad harem patrium. S s N E C A : Eiim venerit diet ille qui mixture: hoc Di_ humanigue fecernat, corpus bet, vbi inxenr`, relingteam: ipfe me .Dija reddam. Porphyrie: Won eft miring* animd,qua fubffantia Meer- perm efit,poffe fepararia corpore;cum ignis,qus eft. fubf#antie corporea corruptibiltsálsgnu quibus eft conirsdt es,pof t feparari, & reuertiinfoam materiam line fui corruption. The fummeis this that neither death nor judgement brings to any man deftruetion of his Nature, or abolifti- ment of being. What then is thedeftruElion here fpoken of ? . Not oft heir Nature, but oftheir ioy, and fceming fe- licicie,that in this life they enjoyed. The amplifications follow : Firft it is rudder), .cosn- Cairing in a time when it is 'eat thought of, and letTe expe- 1rled; u tranellopen a woman with eh:ble;fometimes while they are eating,drinking,f ccping,laughing,. and thinke ofnothinglcfe than of the paints of trauell thereof be- fore.
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