THE GOD'S SCRIPT
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👉❤ THE MATTER ITSELF, OF WHICH THE UNIVERSE DOTH CONSISTS, IS OF ITSELF VERY TRACTABLE AND PLIABLE. THAT RATIONAL ESSENCE THAT DOTH GOVERN IT, HATH IN ITSELF NO CAUSE TO DO EVIL. IT HAS NO EVIL IN ITSELF, NEITHER CAN IT DO ANYTHING THAT IS EVIL. NEITHER CAN ANYTHING BE HURT BY IT. AND ALL THINGS ARE DONE AND DETERMINED ACCORDING TO ITS WILL AND PRESCRIPT.
👉❤ BE IT ALL ONE UNTO THEE, WHETHER HALF FROZEN OR WELL WARM, WHETHER ONLY SLUMBERING, OR AFTER A FULL SLEEP, WHETHER DISCOMMENDED OR COMMENDED THOU DO THEY THY DUTY, OR WHETHER DYING OR DOING SOMEWHAT ELSE, FOR THAT ALSO "DO DIE", MUST AMONG THE REST BE RECKONED AS ONE OF THE DUTIES AND ACTIONS OF OUR LIVES.
👉❤ LOOK IN, LET NOT EITHER THE PROPER QUALITY, OR THE TRUE WORTH OF ANYTHIG PASS THEE, BEFORE THOU HAST FULLY APPREHENDED IT.
👉❤ ALL SUBSTANCES COME SOON TO THEIR CHANGED, AND EITHER THEY SHALL BE RESOLVED BY WAY OF EXHALATION (IF SO BE THAT ALL THINGS SHALL BE REUNITED INTO ONE SUBSTANCE), OR AS OTHERS MAINTAIN, THEY SHALL BE SCATTERED AND DISPERSED. AS FOR THE RATIONAL ESSENCE BY WHICH ALL THINGS ARE GOVERNED, AS IT BEST UNDERSTANDETH ITSELF, BOTH ITS OWN DISPOSITION, AND WHAT IT DOTH, AND WHAT MATTER IT HATH TO DO WITH AND ACCORDINGLY DOTH ALL THINGS, SO WE THAT DO NOT, NO WONDER, IF WE WONDER AT MANY THINGS, THE REASONS WHEREOF WE CANNOT COMPREHEND.
👉❤ THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE IS, NOT TO BECOME LIKE UNTO HIM.
👉❤ LET THIS BE THY ONLY JOY, AND THY ONLY COMFORT, FROM ONE SOCIABLE KIND ACTION WITHOUT INTERMISSION TO PASS UNTO ANOTHER, GOD BEING EVER IN THY MIND.
👉❤ THE RATIONAL COMMANDING PART, AS IT ALONE CAN STIR UP AND TURN ITSELF, SO IT MAKETH BOTH ITSELF TO BE, AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENETH, TO APPEAR UNTO ITSELF, AS IT WILL ITSELF.
👉❤ ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE ALL THINGS PARTICULAR ARE DETERMINED, NOT ACCORDING TO ANY OTHER NATURE, EITHER ABOUT COMPARRING AND CONTAINING, OR WITHIN, DISPERSED AND CONTAINED, OR WITHOUT, DEPENDING, EITHER THIS UNIVERSE IS A MERE CONFUSED MASS, AND AN INTRICATE CONTEXT OF THINGS, WHICH SHALL IN TIME BE SCATTERED AND DISPERSED AGAIN, OR IT IS AN UNION CONSISTING OF ORDER, AND ADMINISTERED BY PROVIDENCE. IF THE FIRST, WHY SHOULD I DESIRE TO CONTINUE ANY LONGER ON THIS FORTUIT CONFUSION AND COMMIXTION? OR WHY SHOULD I TAKE CARE FOR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT THAT AS SOON AS MAY BE I MAY BE EARTH AGAIN? AND WHY SHOULD I TROUBLE MYSELF ANY MORE WHILST I SEEK TO PLEASE THE GODS? WHATSOEVER I DO, DISPERSION IS MY END, AND WILL COME UPON ME WHETHER I WILL OR NOT. BUT IF THE LATTER BE, THEN AM NOT I RELIGIOUS IN VAIN, THEN WILL I BE QUIET AND PATIENT, AND PUT MY TRUST IN HIM, WHO IS THE GOVERNOR OF ALL.
👉❤ WHENSOEVER BY SOME PRESENT HARD OCCURENCES THOU ART CONSTRAINED TO BE IN SOME SORT TROUBLED AND VEXED, RETURN UNTO THYSELF AS SOON AS MAY BE, AND BE NOT OUT OF TUNE LONGER THAN THOU MUST NEED. FOR , SO SHALT THOU BE THE BETTER ABLE TO KEEP THY PART ANOTHER TIME, AND TO MAINTAIN THE HARMONY, IT THOU DOST USE THYSELF TO THIS CONTINUALLY, ONCE OUT, PRESENTLY TO HAVE RECOURSE UNTO IT, AND TO BEGIN AGAIN.
👉❤ IF IT WERE THAT THOU HADST AT ONE TIME BOTH A STEPMOTHER, AND A NATURAL MOTHER LIVING, THOU WOULDST HONOUR AND RESPECT HER ALSO, NEVERTHELESS TO THINE OWN NATURAL MOTHER WOULD THY REFUGE, AND RECOURSE BE CONTINUALLY. SO LET THE COURT AND THY PHILOSOPHY BE UNTO THEE, AND THOU ALSO IN THOSE THINGS NOT INTOLERABLE UNTO OTHERS.
👉❤ DEATH IS A CESSATION FROM THE IMPRESSION OF THE SENSES, THE TYRANNY OF THE PASSIONS, THE ERRORS OF THE MIND, AND THE SERVITUDE OF THE BODY.
👉❤ WHATSOEVER IN ANY KIND DOTH HAPPEN TO ANYONE, IS EXPEDIENT TO THE WHOLE. AND THUS MUCH TO CONTENT US MIGHT SUFFICE, THAT IT IS EXPEDIENT FOR THE WHOLE IN GENERAL. BUT YET THIS ALS SHALT THOU GENERALLY PERCEIVE, IF THOU DOST DILIGENTLY TAKE HEED, THAT WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN TO ANYONE MAN OR MEN. AND NOW I AM CONTENT THAT THE WORD EXPEDIENT, SHOULD MORE GENERALLY BE UNDERSTOOD OF THOSE THINGS INDIFFERENT, AS HEALTH, WEALTH, AND THE LIKE.
👉❤ AS THE ORDINARY SHOWS OF THE THEATRE AND OF OTHER SUCH PLACES, WHEN THOU ART PRESENTED WITH THEM, AFFECT THEE, AS THE SAME THINGS STILL SEEN, AND IN THE SAME FASHION, MAKE THE SIGHT UNGRATEFUL AND TEDIOUS, SO MUST ALL THE THINGS THAT WE SEE ALL OUR LIFE LONG AFFECT US. FOR ALL THINGS, ABOVE THE BELOW, ARE STILL THE SAME, AND FROM THE SAME CAUSES. WHEN THEN WILL THERE BE AN END?
