You consist of three Parts, your Body, your Breath, ³ 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,

Round as a Ball, and Spinning on your Axis. ⁴

And concern your self to live no longer than your Life time, that is the present Moment; ⁵ If you do all this, you may Move on till Death stops you , with Credit and Satisfaction.