IX. Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved:
the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance
of the world: and their memories into the general age and time
of the world. Consider the nature of all worldly sensible things;
of those especially, which either ensnare by pleasure, or for their
irksomeness are dreadful, or for their outward lustre and show are
in great esteem and request, how vile and contemptible, how base
and corruptible, how destitute of all true life and being they are.

X. It is the part of a man endowed with a good understanding faculty,
to consider what they themselves are in very deed, from whose
bare conceits and voices, honour and credit do proceed:
as also what it is to die, and how if a man shall consider this
by itself alone, to die, and separate from it in his mind all
those things which with it usually represent themselves unto us,
he can conceive of it no otherwise, than as of a work of nature,
and he that fears any work of nature, is a very child. Now death,
it is not only a work of nature, but also conducing to nature.

XI. Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined
unto God, and how that part of man is affected, when it is said
to be diffused. There is nothing more wretched than that soul,
which in a kind of circuit compasseth all things, searching (as he saith)
even the very depths of the earth; and by all signs and conjectures
prying into the very thoughts of other men's souls; and yet of this,
is not sensible, that it is sufficient for a man to apply himself wholly,
and to confine all his thoughts and cares to the tendance of that
spirit which is within him, and truly and really to serve him.
His service doth consist in this, that a man keep himself pure from
all violent passion and evil affection, from all rashness and vanity,