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XXXVII. Come! You have lived long enough, unless you could make more on't: Here's nothing but Grumbling, and Apishness, to be met with: What makes you Disturbed ? What can you be surpriz'd at? What has happen'd to you worse than you had reason to expect? Does Form or Matter, Body or Spirit, make you uneasie ? Look into them, and you may probably be releived. Now for your Comfort, These Two are Natures, All, and there's no Third thing to Molest you. 'Tis high time therefore to Interpret the Gods rightly, and throw off your Chagrin against Heaven.

XXXVIII. Three Years time to peruse Nature, and look over the World, is as good as a Hundred.

XXXIX. If such a Man has done amiss, the Mischief is to himself ; And it may be if you enquire, he has not neither.

XL. Either all Things are Ordered by an Intelligent Being, who makes the World but one Family, ( And if so, why should a Part, or single Member complain of that which is design'd for the Benefit Rh