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

The Soul, (saith one of them^*) is an invisible thing, and is going into another place, suitable to it self, that is noble, and pure, and invisible, even into Hades, indeed to the good and wise God, whether also my Soul shall shortly go if he see good. But this (he saith in what follows) belongs only to such a Soul as goes out of the body pure, that draws nothing corporal along with it, did not willingly communicate with the body in life, but did even fly from it, and gather up it self into it self, always meditating this one thing. A soul so affected, shall it not go to something like it self, divine, (and what is divine, is immortal and wise) whether,² when it comes, it becomes blessed, free from error, ignorance, fears, and wild (or enormous) loves, and all other evils incident to men.

The Soul, (saith one of them^*) is an invisible thing, and is going into another place, suitable to it self, that is noble, and pure, and invisible, even into Hades, indeed to the good and wise God, whether also my Soul shall shortly go if he see good. But this (he saith in what follows) belongs only to such a Soul as goes out of the body pure, that draws nothing corporal along with it, did not willingly communicate with the body in life, but did even fly from it, and gather up it self into it self, always meditating this one thing. A soul so affected, shall it not go to something like it self, divine, (and what is divine, is immo•tal and wise) whether,² when it comes, it becomes blessed, free from errour, ignorance, fears, and wild (or enormous) loves, and all other evils incident to men.

1. *Plato in Phae•one, […] whom I adjoin what (to them that understand it) is more elegant in his […] language, [Greek or Hebrew]. Ibid.Plato in Phae•one, whom I adjoy what (to them that understand it) is more elegant in his language, . Ibid.