![]() But, if the latter be the case then I adore the governour of the whole, I stand firm, and trust in him.ġ1. If the former why should I wish to stay longer in this confused mix-ture or be solicitous about any thing, further than “* how to become earth again”? Or, why should I be disturbed about any thing? The dispersion will overtake me, do what I please. Either the universe is a confused mass and intertexture, soon to be dispersed or one orderly whole, under a providence. All things are accomplished by the nature presiding in the whole nor can they be influenced by any other, either surrounding it without, or contained as distinct within it, or externally annexed to it.ġ0. The governing part is that which rouses, and turns, and forms itself, such as it chuses to be and makes every event appear such to itself, as it inclines.ĩ. ![]() Delight thy self in this one thing, and rest in it to be going from one kind social action to another, with remembrance of God.1Ĩ. The best sort of revenge, is, not to become like the injurious.ħ. The governing mind in the universe, knows its own dispositions and actions, and the nature of that matter it is acting upon.Ħ. All things now existing shall speedily be changed, either* by exhaling and rarifying, if all be one substance or be dissolved and dispersed into the several elements.ĥ. Let not the proper quality, or dignity, of any thing, escape your observation.Ĥ. ’Tis sufficient, then, if it be well performed.ģ. For, dying is one piece of the natural business of every living creature. Provided you act the part that becomes you, let it be of no account with you, whether you do it shivering with cold, or agreeably warm whether drousy through long watching, or refreshed with sleep whether in good report, or bad report whether by dying, or by any other action. It is the cause of all that happens, as it executes all things.Ģ. It has no malice nor can it do any thing maliciously nor is any one hurt by it. The matter of the universe is obedient, and easily changed: the intelligence, which governs it, has no cause in itself, of doing evil to any.
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