The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

But considering Gods Dominion over us, and interest in our Lives and Beings; and that as well ingenuity, as necessity binds us to be Subject to his pleasure, we should herein patiently suffer our selves to be over-ruled thereby, and not so abstractly mind our own interest ⟨p. 398⟩and contentment in this matter; as if we were altogether our own; and had no Lord over us. Plato who abounds in discourses of the desirableness of dying, and of the blessed change it makes with them that are good. Yet hath this apt expression of the subjection we ••ght to be into the Divine pleasure as to this matter. That the soul is in the body as soldiers in a garrison,¹ from whence they may not withdraw themselves without his order and direction who placed them there? And expostulates thus. If (saith he) a slave of yours should destroy his own Life, without your consent would you not be displeased; and, if there had been any place left for revenge been apt enough to that too? So he brings in Socrates discoursing, and discovers himself, herein to have had more Light in this matter touching that subordinate interest only, men have in their own lives, and the unlawfulness of self murder (as he had in other things too) then most heathens of the more refined Sect ever arrived to.

But considering Gods Dominion over us, and interest in our Lives and Beings; and that as well ingenuity, as necessity binds us to be Subject to his pleasure, we should herein patiently suffer our selves to be over-ruled thereby, and not so abstractly mind our own interest ⟨p. 398⟩and contentment in this matter; as if we were altogether our own; and had no Lord over us. Plato who abounds in discourses of the desirableness of dying, and of the blessed change it makes with them that are good. Yet hath this apt expression of the subjection we ••ght to be into the Divine pleasure as to this matter. That the soul is in the body as souldiers in a garrison,¹ from whence they may not withdraw themselves without his order and direction who placed them there? And expostulates thus. If (saith he) a slave of yours should destroy his own Life, without your consent would you not be displeas'd; and, if there had been any place left for revenge been apt enough to that too? So he brings in Socrates discoursing, and discovers himself, herein to have had more Light in this matter touching that subordinate interest only, men have in their own lives, and the unlawfulness of self murther (as he had in other things too) then most heathens of the more refined Sect ever arrived to.