(which things nature in the administration of the world,
indifferently doth make use of), is not as indifferent,
it is apparent that he is impious. When I say that common
nature doth indifferently make use of them, my meaning is,
that they happen indifferently in the ordinary course of things,
which by a necessary consequence, whether as principal
or accessory, come to pass in the world, according to that first
and ancient deliberation of Providence, by which she from
some certain beginning, did resolve upon the creation of such
a world, conceiving then in her womb as it were some certain
rational generative seeds and faculties of things future,
whether subjects, changes, successions; both such and such,
and just so many.

II. It were indeed more happy and comfortable, for a man to
depart out of this world, having lived all his life long clear
from all falsehood, dissimulation, voluptuousness, and pride.
But if this cannot be, yet it is some comfort for a man joyfully
to depart as weary, and out of love with those; rather than to
desire to live, and to continue long in those wicked courses.
Hath not yet experience taught thee to fly from the plague?
For a far greater plague is the corruption of the mind,
than any certain change and distemper of the common air can be.
This is a plague of creatures, as they are living creatures;
but that of men as they are men or reasonable. III. Thou must
not in matter of death carry thyself scornfully, but as one
that is well pleased with it, as being one of those things
that nature hath appointed. For what thou dost conceive
of these, of a boy to become a young man, to wax old, to grow,
to ripen, to get teeth, or a beard, or grey hairs to beget,