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Chap. 14. equal that whatsoever is pleasing to God, should (for that very reason) be so also to Man. The Souldier in the Camp upon Notice of a March, gets on his knap-sack; but if it sound to Armes, he layes it aside, as one who with his Mind, and Eyes, and Ears, is intent upon, and prepared for any command. Let it be thus with us, and in this Warfare of ours, let us chearfully and resolvedly March after our General, which way soever he shall command us. We are sworn to this, saith Seneca, ''to endure such things as Mortality is liable to, and not to be disturbed in case some things fall out, which it is not in our power to prevent. We are born in a Kingdom, and to obey God is Liberty it self''. Rh