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His Lipsius is a firme and well temper'd Shield, against all external Evils. These are those golden Armes with which being cover'd, Plato would have us to fight against Chance and Fortune, to be subject to God, to think upon him, and in all kind of Events, to bend this Mind of ours, unto that great Mind of the World, I mean Providence, whose pious and fortunate forces, forasmuch as I have already made sufficient proof of; I shall now draw forth and lead up another Squadron, which marches under the Standard of necessity. Rh