Axiochus.
and notable reaſons of the ſoules immortalitie tend.
For it is not the weake nature of mortall man, to raiſe himſelfe to the fulfilling of ſuch high and haughtye matters, as to deſpiſe the ramping rage of wide beaſts, to ieopard himſelfe in the waſtefull ſea, to builde Citties, and them with lawes and pollicie to eſtabliſh: to looke vp into heauen, and marke the courſe of the Starres; and the wayes of the Sunne and Moone, with their riſings and ſetting, to conſider their eclipſes, their ſpaces, their making of the nights and dayes alike their double conuerſions, to behold the order of the windes, the ſeauen watrie ſtarres, of winter, of ſummer, of ſtormes, with the violent rage of whirlewindes, and as it were theſe labours of the world, to deliuer to poſteritie, vnleſſe in our mindes there were a certaine diuine ſpirit and vnderſtanding, which could comprehend and reach vnto the ſupernaturall knowledge of ſo great matters.
VVherefore nowe O Axiochus, thou art not in the way to death, but to immortality, neither ſhalt thou (as thou didſt ſeeme right now to feare) bee bereft of all good, but ſhall hereby enioy true and perfect good: Neither ſhalt thou perceiue ſuch durty pleaſures as are theſe, beeing mingled with the puddle of this ſinfull body, but moſt pure and perfect delight
