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An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…
An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of the country to a person of quality in the city. Who took offence at the late sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of S. Pauls; before the lord mayor.An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of the countrey to a person of quality in the city. Who took offence at the late sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of S. Pauls; before the lord mayor.
London: printed by S.W., 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A LETTER Written out of the COUNTRY TO A Person of Quality in the CITY, &c.
A LETTER Written out of the COUNTREY TO A Person of Quality in the CITY, &c.
I Perceive your Mind is disturbed, which my Friendship with you can no more let me be unconcerned for, than if I heard you were sick; nor less to study your Relief. Such may be the Cause and Measure of your Passion, and such the disproportion between the One and the Other, as to need it a great deal more, though yet perhaps to deserve it less. For your sickness might be your infelicity only, but a perturbation that exceeds its Cause, cannot but be your fault. Which kind of Evil, ⟨p. 2⟩though it be much greater, and therefore needs more application for the removing of it; yet it can challenge less help from another, because you are your own Afflicter, and may, when you please cure your self, which no man else can do for you.
I Perceive your Mind is disturb'd, which my Friendship with you can no more let me be unconcern'd for, than if I heard you were sick; nor less to study your Relief. Such may be the Cause and Measure of your Passion, and such the disproportion between the One and the Other, as to need it a great deal more, though yet perhaps to deserve it less. For your sickness might be your infelicity only, but a perturbation that exceeds its Cause, cannot but be your fault. Which kind of Evil, ⟨p. 2⟩though it be much greater, and therefore needs more application for the removing of it; yet it can challenge less help from another, because you are your own Afflicter, and may, when you please cure your self, which no man else can do for you.