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

Another is brought in, speaking thus. If God should grant me to become a Child again,¹ to send forth my renewed infant-cries from my Cradle, and, having even run out my race, to begin it again; I should most earnestly refuse it; for what profit hath this life? and how much toil?—Yet I do not repent that I have lived, because, I hope, I have not lived in vain. And I now go out of this life, not as out of my dwelling house, but my Inn. O blessed day, when I shall enter into that Council and Assembly of souls, and depart from this rude, and disorderly rout, and crew, &c.

Another is brought in, speaking thus. If God should grant me to become a Child again,¹ to send forth my renewed infant-cries from my Cradle, and, having even run out my race, to begin it again; I should most earnestly refuse it; for what profit hath this life? and how much toil?—Yet I do not repent that I have lived, because, I hope, I have not liv'd in vain. And I now go out of this life, not as out of my dwelling house, but my Inn. O blessed day, when I shall enter into that Council and Assembly of souls, and depart from this rude, and disorderly rout, and crew, &c.

1. 1Cato in Cicerone de Senect.

I shall add another (of a not much unlike strain^* and rank) that discoursing who is the Heir of Divine things, (as being either not an open or no constant friend to Christianity) Saith, he cannot be, who is in love with this animal, sensitive life; but only that purest mind, that is inspired from above, that partake of an Heavenly, and Divine portion; that only despises the body, &c. with much more of like import.