is the proper virtue for this present use? as whether meekness,
fortitude, truth, faith, sincerity, contentation, or any of the rest?
Of everything therefore thou must use thyself to say, This immediately
comes from God, this by that fatal connection, and concatenation
of things, or (which almost comes to one) by some coincidental casualty.
And as for this, it proceeds from my neighbour, my kinsman, my fellow:
through his ignorance indeed, because he knows not what is truly natural
unto him: but I know it, and therefore carry myself towards him
according to the natural law of fellowship; that is kindly, and justly.
As for those things that of themselves are altogether indifferent,
as in my best judgment I conceive everything to deserve more or less,
so I carry myself towards it.

XIII. If thou shalt intend that which is present, following the rule
of right and reason carefully, solidly, meekly, and shalt not intermix
any other businesses, but shall study this only to preserve thy
spirit impolluted, and pure, and shall cleave unto him without either hope
or fear of anything, in all things that thou shalt either do or speak,
contenting thyself with heroical truth, thou shalt live happily;
and from this, there is no man that can hinder thee.

XIV. As physicians and chirurgeons have always their instruments
ready at hand for all sudden cures; so have thou always thy dogmata
in a readiness for the knowledge of things, both divine and human:
and whatsoever thou dost, even in the smallest things that thou dost,
thou must ever remember that mutual relation, and connection
that is between these two things divine, and things human.
For without relation unto God, thou shalt never speed in any
worldly actions; nor on the other side in any divine, without some
respect had to things human.