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30 ous, Plaintfull, Discompos'd, and never (as we ought) assigning what is equall either to God or Man. As a void and empty Ship, is tossed in the Sea, with every wind: So will that Vagrant Mind of ours be, which the weight, and (as it were) the ballast of Reason hath not established.

Evity therefore Lipsius (as you see) is the Comrade of Opinion, and the property of it is alwayes to change and to repent. But the associate of Reason is Constancy; to the putting on of which I do very seriously exhort you. To what purpose is it to have recourse unto things vain Rh