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 110 VII. Never be asham'd of Assistance: Like a Centinel at the Storming of a Town, your business is to mantain your Post, and execute your Orders. Now suppose you happen to be Lame at an Assault, and can't mount the Breach upon your own Feet, won't you suffer your Comrade to help you?

VIII. Be not disturb'd about the Future; for if ever you come to it, you'l have the same Reason for your Guide, and Protection, which preserves you at present.

IX. All parts of the Universe are Interwoven, and Tyed together. And no one thing is Foreign, or Unrelated to another. This general Connexion, gives Unity, and Ornament to the World. For the World, take it altogether, is but One. There's but one sort of Matter to make it of, one God to govern it, and one Law to guide it : For run through the whole System of Rational Beings, and you'l find Reason, and Truth, is but single, and the same. And thus Beings of the same kind, and endued with the same Reason, are made happy by the same Exercises of it.

X. All Compositions of Matter fly off apace to the Common Stock, and Receptacle : Spirits are quickly swallow'd up in Rh