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 whome euill might chance: o likewie when thou hat ended this tate of mortalitye thou halt no more be afflicted, for thou halt not be in uch eae as that any euill can touch thee. VVherefore hake off and cat away all thee trifles and worldly baggage, thus waying in thy minde, that when the frame of this earthly building is diolued, and the oule being ingled, is retored to his naturall place: this bodye which is then left an earthly mae and an vnreaonable ubtance, is then no more a man. For we are a oule, that is to ay, an immortall creature, beeing hut vp and incloed in an earthly dungeon. VVherewithall nature hath clothed vs, and charged vs with many mieries, o that euen thoe things which eeme pleaant to vs and ioyfull, are indeed but vaine and hadowed, beeing mingled and wrapped in many thouand orrowes, and thoe alo which ve to breede vs orrowe and heauines, are both odaine, and therefore more hardely auoyded, and alo perdurable, and therefore the more painefull and weariome. Such be dieaes and inflammation of the ences: Such bee inward griefes and ickenees, through which it cannot chooe but that oule mut been alo dieaed, ince that beeing cattered and pread through the powres and paages of the body, it coueteth the ve of that open and kinde heauen out of which it was deriued, and thirteth for