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 Rh great deal of Trouble would be sav'd: For he that can overlook his Limbs, and make his Carkass sit loose about him, will hardly disturb himself about the House he dwells in; about his Equipage or Reputation; or any part of the Furniture, and Magnificence of a Figure.

III. You consist of three Parts, your Body, your Breath, and your Mind : The two first are yours to take care of, but the latter is properly your Person. Therefore if you abstract from the Notion of your self that is of your Mind, whatever other People either say, or do , or whatever you may have said or done your self formerly, together with all that which disturbs you under the consideration of its coming to pass hereafter ; If you throw the necessary Motions of your Carcass out of the Definition, and those of the Vortex that whirls about you ; And by this means preserve your Rational Faculties in an Independent state of Innocence , free from Force and Infection; Holding close, and steady to the Virtues of Justice ; Truth, and Acquiescence ; If I say, you keep your Mind separate, and Distinguish'd, from the Objests, of Appetite, and the Appendages of Time, both Past and Future, and make your self like Empedocles's World, Rh