For whatsoever it be that lieth upon thee to effect, thou must
propose it unto thyself, as the scaling of walls is unto a soldier.
And what if thou through either lameness or some other impediment
art not able to reach unto the top of the battlements alone,
which with the help of another thou mayst; wilt thou therefore
give it over, or go about it with less courage and alacrity.
because thou canst not effect it all alone?

VI. Let not things future trouble thee. For if necessity so
require that they come to pass, thou shalt (whensoever that is)
be provided for them with the same reason, by which whatsoever
is now present, is made both tolerable and acceptable unto thee.
All things are linked and knitted together, and the knot is sacred,
neither is there anything in the world, that is not kind and natural
in regard of any other thing, or, that hath not some kind of reference
and natural correspondence with whatsoever is in the world besides.
For all things are ranked together, and by that decency of its due
place and order that each particular doth observe, they all concur
together to the making of one and the same ["Kosmos" ed] or world:
as if you said, a comely piece, or an orderly composition.
For all things throughout, there is but one and the same order;
and through all things, one and the same God, the same substance
and the same law. There is one common reason, and one common truth,
that belongs unto all reasonable creatures, for neither is there
save one perfection of all creatures that are of the same kind,
and partakers of the same reason.

VII. Whatsoever is material, doth soon vanish away into the common
substance of the whole; and whatsoever is formal, or, whatsoever doth
animate that which is material, is soon resumed into the common reason