The vanity of this mortal life, or, Of man, considered only in his present…

There is nothing in this world of that value, or worthy to be bought so deer, as with the less and forfeiture of the rest and repose of a mind quiet, benign, peaceful, and well pleased with it self. It is ⟨p. 101⟩enough if one find himself, by difficulties which he cannot master, constrained to dissent from persons above exception wise and pious, placidly, and without unbecoming confidence, to go on in the way which his present judgment allows, carrying with him a modest sense of humane infirmity, and how possible it is the error may lye on his own part: Having, yet, to relieve him against that supposition, the clearness of his own spirit, the conscience of his innocency of any ill disposition or design; of his instructibleness and preparedness to admit a conviction if he err. And be he never so fully persuaded about the thing in difference, yet to consider the smallness of it, and how little cause he hath of glorying, if he know in this matter more than others, who, possibly, know ten times more than he, in far greater and more important matters.

There is nothing in this world of that value, or worthy to be bought so deer, as with the less and forfeiture of the rest and repose of a mind quiet, benign, peaceful, and well pleased with it self. It is ⟨p. 101⟩enough if one find himself, by difficulties which he cannot master, constrained to dissent from persons above exception wise and pious, placidly, and without unbecoming confidence, to go on in the way which his present judgment allows, carrying with him a modest sense of humane infirmity, and how possible it is the error may lye on his own part: Having, yet, to relieve him against that supposition, the clearness of his own spirit, the conscience of his innocency of any ill disposition or design; of his instructibleness and preparedness to admit a conviction if he err. And be he never so fully perswaded about the thing in difference, yet to consider the smallness of it, and how little cause he hath of glorying, if he know in this matter more than others, who, possibly, know ten times more than he, in far greater and more important matters.