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438 vanish away; the peaceable calmness of Mens Judgments will have admirable influence on their Manners; the sincerity of their Understandings will appear in their Actions; their Opinions will be less violent and dogmatical, but more certain; they; will only be Gods one to another, and not Wolves; the value of their Arts will be esteemed by the great Things they perform, and not by those they speak: While the old Philosophy could only at the best pretend to the Portion of Nepthali, to give goodly words, the New will have the Blessings of Joseph the younger and the belov'd Son; It shall be like a fruitful Bough, even a fruitful Bough by a Well whose Branches run over the Wall: It shall have the Blessings of Heaven above, the Blessings of the Deep that lies under, the Blessings of the Breasts and of the Womb: While the Old could only bestow on us some barren Terms and Notions, the New shall impart to us the Uses of all the Creatures, and shall enrich us with all the Benefits of Fruitfulness and Plenty.