A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

Should I transcribe what I find written in way of Consolation by Plutarch to Apollonius, upon the loss of a Son, you would see what would give both Instruction and Admiration. I shall mention some Passages. He praises the young Person, deceased, for his Comeliness, Sobriety, Piety, dutifulness towards Parents, obligingness towards Friends, acknowledges that Sorrow in the case of losing such a Son, hath ([Greek or Hebrew]) a principle in Nature, and is of the things that are ([Greek or Hebrew]) not in our Power, or which we cannot help; That to be ⟨p. 17⟩destitute of it is neither possible, nor fit. That an Apathy, or insensibleness in such a Case is no more desirable, than that we should endure to have a Limb, a part of our selves, cut, or torn off from us without feeling it. But yet affirms that immoderate Sorrow upon such an occasion is ([Greek or Hebrew]) preternatural, and hath a pravity in it, and proceeds from a misinformed mind. That we ought in any such Case to be neither ([Greek or Hebrew], nor [Greek or Hebrew]) unaffected, nor ill affected. He tells his Friend a Story (The meaning whereof, is more considerable to us, than the Credit of it, as perhaps it was to him) concerning two Grecian Youths, Cleobis and Biton, whose Mother having a Duty to perform in the Temple of Juno, and the Mules, not being ⟨p. 18⟩at hand, in the instant, when she expected them, to draw •er Chariot thither, they most officiously drew it themselves; with which act of Piety their Mother was so transported, that she made her Request to Juno, on their behalf, that if there were any thing more desirable unto Mortals, than other, she would therewith reward her Sons; who thereupon threw them into a Sleep, out of which they awak'd no more. Thereby signifying, that Death was the best gif• that could be bestowed upon Persons of such supposed Piety, as they!

Should I transcribe what I find written in way of Consolation by Plutarch to Apollonius, upon the loss of a Son, you would see what would give both Instruction and Admiration. I shall mention some Passages. He praises the young Person, deceased, for his Comliness, Sobriety, Piety, dutifulness towards Parents, obligingness towards Friends, acknowledges that Sorrow in the case of losing such a Son, hath (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) a principle in Nature, and is of the things that are () not in our Power, or which we cannot help; That to be