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A good Soul hath neither too great Joy, nor too great Sorrow; for it rejoiceth in Goodness, and it for roweth in Wickednefs. Pythagoras."

It is better for the Soul's fake to fuffer Death, than to lofe the Soul for the Love of this Life. Hermes.:

A wife Man ought to look more carefully to his Soul than to his Body. Socrates. to the least

It is better to have a Soul garnished with Vertue and Knowledge, than a Body decked with gorgeous Apparel. fio do so any Wisdom, Vertue, and Underftanding, are the garnishing of the Soul. Order thy felf fo, that thy Soul may be always in good Estate, whatfoever comes of thy Body. Pythag. Bleffed.is the Saul that is not in fected with the Filthiness of this World. ::,

: If the Soul of Man (through Sin) be once dead, it is never more revived, but by the only meer Grace and Mercy of the most Gracious and Living God, whofe Vengeance (by his Juftice) ftill waiteth the Deftruction of wicked and wilful Sin

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As the Body is an Inftrument of the Soul; fo is the Soul an Inftrument of God: The Body was made for the Soul, and not the Soul for the Body. Plutarch.

Look how much the Soul is better than the Body, fo much more grie vous are the Difeafes. thereof, than the Diseases of the Body. Diogenes.

The Soul cannot but ever live, it hath no end of living: Yet we may fay (in one Senfe) the Soul liveth and dieth; it liveth in the Grace and Favour of God, and dieth in the Malice of the Devil.

The Soul's Life is the Light of Vertue, and his Death is the Darkness of Sin.

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There is a Holy Spirit in us, that treateth us as we treat him. Seneca. That as the Sun cannot be known, but by his own Light; fo God cannot be known, but with his own Light: And as the Eye cannot fee the Sun but by receiving its Image; fo Man cannot know God, but by receiving his Image. Plotinus.

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which raiseth up the Soul into a fenfible Communion with God, above the World, which the Mind of Man is prone to flug or bemire it felf withal. Flato.

The Confcience of Man is (in himfelf) a fecret Knowledge, a private Opener, Teftimony, or Witness; an Accufer, an inward Troubler or Tormentor; or a Satisfier, and joyful Quieter of the Mind of Man in all his Doings. Antifthenes.

A good Confcience is the Teftimony of a good Life, and the Reward of it. Seneca.

Every Man has a Judgment and a Witnefs within himself, of all the Good and Ill that he does; which infpires us with great Thoughts, and adminifters to us wholfome. Coun fels. Seneca.

A Man's Confcience (of it felf) greatly convinceth, and giveth Tetimony of the Truth unto the Judgment of God. Cleobulus.

The Confcience of a Man is not void of the Knowledge of God's Laws, and of his Judgments; because he fhould be moved by them, and therefore fear to offend.

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A good Confcience is a continua 1 Feaft. Seneca.

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It is better to trust in a good and quiet Confcience, in all our Honeft and Godly Doings (in the fight and prefence of God) than to trust to the fatisfying of our felves in the vain Pleasures of this World, or the wick ed Motions and Pleafures of the Flesh, with the Terror of a wicked Confcience. Phocylides.

The Love of this vain and wicked World, maketh Men do many things contrary to the Law of their Con fciences; for in them that love the World, there is little regard of God, neither doth his Love abide in them. Zeno...

He that frameth himfelf untowardly, to do that which his Confcience reproveth him inwardly, cannot pleafe God.

The Confcience that is wounded, and over-burthen'd with Sin, feeleth even in this Life part of Hell Tor

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It is a great deal better to have a quiet and fettled Mind, lying upon the Ground; than to have much .: Trouble

Trouble on a Bed of Gold. Pytha

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The Confcience of a Man is unto himself as a Thoufand Witneffes.' Socrates.

A troubled Confcience tormenteth the Mind; but a quiet Confcience is high Felicity, paffing all Worldly Pleafures and Dignity.

Fearfulness, and Trembling of Confcience, follow Sin and Wickedness.. Keep thy Confcience pure and undefiled, and frive not against the Rule of it.

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If there be a happy Man in this World, it is he who hath a pure and clean Soul, and a Confcience defiled with nothing; for the Myfteries of God may be feen and beheld of him only. Socrates.

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If the Devil, thy own Confcience, or God's Law do accufe thee, for any Evil conceived or done, confefs thy fault fpeedily, defer not the time, dally not with God, be truly repentant, truft in his Mercy, and bide not thy fault from him; fo will he have mercy upon thee.

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