ALL those Things you Drudge, and Range so much Ground for, you may have at your Ease, unless you are afraid of making your self too Happy. Your Method to do your business, is not to concern your self about the time Past, for that is never to be recover'd; To rest the Future with Providence; And only stick to the Present, and improve that to all the Noble purposes of Piety and Justice. The Pious part will be discharg'd by being contented with your Fate; And why should you not, since Nature made you for each other?¹ And as to the Obligations of Justice, you'l acquit your self here, provided you speak Truth boldly, and above board , and make Law , and the Dignity of Things, your Rule to Act by. When you are not to be check'd in your Progress, by the Misbehaviour, the Ignorance , and impertinent Reports of other People, nor yet by the Sence and Sufferings of your own Carcase. Tho' by the way, 'tis a question whether it suffers or not. ² To go on; If, since your Life is almost up, you lay aside all other Matters, and only Cultivate your Mind, and pay a Regard to the Governing , and Diviner part of your self : If you are not at all afraid of losing your Life, but of Missing the Ends on't, and not Living as you should do ; Then you'l act suitably to your Extraction , and deserve to have the Deity for your Maker : Then you'l be no longer a stranger in your own Country , nor be surpriz'd at common Accidents ; you'l ne're be anxious about the Future , nor stand to the Courtesy of Events.