The immortality of the human soul, demonstrated by the light of Nature. In two dialogues / [Walter Charleton].

  • Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707.
Date:
1657
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    to admit conferences with your Friends 3 touch¬ ing fome Argument or other, that you are able to dtfcourfe of familiarly,and without torturing the brain , and putting your Imagination upon the rack: For, by this means, you fhall infenfibly wear out the Characters your misfortunes ana diftreffes have’ftampt in your Soul , and find a pleafure in taking occafionall reviews of the fe- verall ufefull Notions filed up in the rolls of your Memory, and at the fame time3 both bene¬ fit and endear your company. Mhanafius5 Sir , your Counfel is excellent 3 and I fhall make it my chief care to let you fee how much I prize it 3 by my endeavours to follow it pre- cifely. But3 knowwithall, Lucretius^ that the forefight31 tell you 3 I have of my approaching mine 3 as to all that Fortune laies claim to as hers3doth not imply either my Fear of it3or want ofrefolu.tiontofuftein.that 3 and even Death it felfj in what fhape foever it fhall prefent it felf 3 without {looping one hair's breadth below that . pitch of fpirit, that belongs to an honeft Mind to confervein all encounters. ?Tis one thing to pre- vife a danger 5 and another to be ftartled and grow pale at the ftroak of it .• I well underhand the value of the goods of the Mind above thole of Fortune : And if lean be fo much in favour with Heaven 3 as to be endowed but with trie leaft portion of the Former 3 I fhall eafily part with the Latter^and account my felf rich enough in the exchange* Be confident therefore, that fo