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Chap. 19. heart fails, and you tremble at such a ratefate [sic], as if (should you suffer Shipwrack) you were to swallow it all; when alass one or two Sextaries would be sufficient. If there be a sudden Earth-quake; what a cry, and what fears it raises? You apprehend immediately, that the whole City (or house at least) will fall upon you: Not considering how sufficient any single stone is to perform the work of Death. 'Tis thus in all these calamities; in which it is the noise and vain image of things that chiefly affrights us. See that Guard; these Swords. And what can that Guard, or those Swords do? They will kill. And what is that being kill'd? 'Tis only a single Death; and lest that name should affright you: It is the departure of the Soul from the Body. All those military troops, All those threatning Swords, shall perform no more than what one Feaver, one Grapestone, or one Insect can do. But this is the harsher way of Rh