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Chap. 7. AGE NOR ADVANTAGE THIS OUR INWARD MAN THAT IS OUR SOUL. And therefore I will not call them Good or Evil; as if they were so absolutely and simply: But only from Opinion and the common mistake of the Vulgar. Amongst the First they Ranke Riches, Honours, Power, Health, Long-life. Amongst the Last Poverty, Infamy, want of Power, Diseases and Deaths; and in a word whatsoever is accidental and external. From these two stocks those four chief Affections grow up in us which compass and perplex the whole life of Man. Desire and Joy, Fear and Grief. The two former of these respect some imagined good; and thence are bred: the two last respect supposed evils. Each of them do equally hurt and molest the Mind: and unless care be taken to dethrone it; though not after one and the same manner. For whereas the repose and Constancy of the Mind is placed in Rh