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whome euill might chance: ſo likewiſe when thou haſt ended this ſtate of mortalitye thou ſhalt no more be afflicted, for thou ſhalt not be in ſuch eaſe as that any euill can touch thee. VVherefore ſhake off and caſt away all theſe trifles and worldly baggage, thus waying in thy minde, that when the frame of this earthly building is diſſolued, and the ſoule being ſingled, is reſtored to his naturall place: this bodye which is then left an earthly maſſe and an vnreaſonable ſubſtance, is then no more a man. For we are a ſoule, that is to ſay, an immortall creature, beeing ſhut vp and incloſed in an earthly dungeon. VVherewithall nature hath clothed vs, and charged vs with many miſeries, ſo that euen thoſe things which ſeeme pleaſant to vs and ioyfull, are indeed but vaine and ſhadowed, beeing mingled and wrapped in many thouſand ſorrowes, and thoſe alſo which vſe to breede vs ſorrowe and heauines, are both ſodaine, and therefore more hardely auoyded, and alſo perdurable, and therefore the more painefull and weariſome. Such be diſeaſes and inflammation of the ſences: Such bee inward griefes and ſickeneſſes, through which it cannot chooſe but that ſoule muſt been alſo diſeaſed, ſince that beeing ſcattered and ſpread through the powres and paſſages of the body, it coueteth the vſe of that open and kinde heauen out of which it was deriued, and thirſteth
