Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . bu of your foe v? ?fivce hone ts counted bafe,lf)cu confticr God theaufbopr ojyoir raceyBut het that wtthfovle 9tce dcetb hss crvne btrth deface. Piatcnifts, who thought, that the foules wer? createc in heaucn, but the tiaetn is that they are created ia tiie laoae as they are ready for life. HE LP That true hdppinejfe confijlethnotinpleafure. lOW whatfhould Ifpeakeof bodily pleafure, the de-fire of which is full of anxi-etic,& die enioying of them breedsrepentance? How many difeaies,how intollerable griefes bring; rheyforth in the bod
Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . bu of your foe v? ?fivce hone ts counted bafe,lf)cu confticr God theaufbopr ojyoir raceyBut het that wtthfovle 9tce dcetb hss crvne btrth deface. Piatcnifts, who thought, that the foules wer? createc in heaucn, but the tiaetn is that they are created ia tiie laoae as they are ready for life. HE LP That true hdppinejfe confijlethnotinpleafure. lOW whatfhould Ifpeakeof bodily pleafure, the de-fire of which is full of anxi-etic,& die enioying of them breedsrepentance? How many difeaies,how intollerable griefes bring; rheyforth in the bodies of their poiTef- iors. Tbilo/ophicaU Qomfort, iors, Esic were the fruices of theirwickedneflTe? I know not whatfiveecnefle their motions haue, butwhofbeuer will remember hi»lufts,fbali vnderftand, that the endof pleasure is fadnelle. Which if itbe able to caule happinefle, thereis no reafon,\vhy beails fhould notbe thought ble{Ted,whoie whole in-tentionisbent to fupply their cor*porall wants. Thatplealure,whichpi oceedeth from wire and childrenis moft honeft^biit it was too iiatu*raly fpoken, thatfl knowe notwhome} iound his children histormentors , whole condicion,whatfoeuer it be, bow biting itis,Ineedeno: tf 11 thee, who hail hade>pjnence heeretoiore, and art notnow free fom care. In which I;appiouethe opinion of Euripides^who laid t
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