Or what doest thou suffer through any of these? If in none of these,
then neither in the ending and consummation of thy whole life,
which is also but a cessation and change.

XX. As occasion shall require, either to thine own understanding,
or to that of the universe, or to his, whom thou hast
now to do with, let thy refuge be with all speed.
To thine own, that it resolve upon nothing against justice.
To that of the universe, that thou mayest remember,
part of whom thou art. Of his, that thou mayest consider.
whether in the estate of ignorance, or of knowledge.
And then also must thou call to mind, that he is thy kinsman.

XXI. As thou thyself, whoever thou art, were made for the perfection
and consummation, being a member of it, of a common society; so must
every action of thine tend to the perfection and consummation of a life
that is truly sociable. What action soever of thine therefore that
either immediately or afar off, hath not reference to the common good,
that is an exorbitant and disorderly action; yea it is seditious;
as one among the people who from such and such a consent and unity,
should factiously divide and separate himself.

XXII. Children's anger, mere babels; wretched souls bearing
up dead bodies, that they may not have their fall so soon:
even as it is in that common dirge song. XXIII. Go to the quality
of the cause from which the effect doth proceed. Behold it
by itself bare and naked, separated from all that is material.
Then consider the utmost bounds of time that that cause,
thus and thus qualified, can subsist and abide.