So that we may say, that whatsoever is, is but as it were the seed
of that which shall be. For if thou think that that only is seed,
which either the earth or the womb receiveth, thou art very simple.

XXX. Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not
attained to that perfect simplicity: thou art yet subject
to many troubles and perturbations; not yet free from all
fear and suspicion of external accidents; nor yet either
so meekly disposed towards all men, as thou shouldest;
or so affected as one, whose only study and only wisdom is,
to be just in all his actions. XXXI. Behold and observe,
what is the state of their rational part; and those that the world
doth account wise, see what things they fly and are afraid of;
and what things they hunt after.

XXXII. In another man's mind and understanding thy evil Cannot subsist,
nor in any proper temper or distemper of the natural constitution
of thy body, which is but as it were the coat or cottage of thy soul.
Wherein then, but in that part of thee, wherein the conceit,
and apprehension of any misery can subsist? Let not that part
therefore admit any such conceit, and then all is well.
Though thy body which is so near it should either be cut or burnt,
or suffer any corruption or putrefaction, yet let that part
to which it belongs to judge of these, be still at rest; that is,
let her judge this, that whatsoever it is, that equally may happen
to a wicked man, and to a good man, is neither good nor evil.
For that which happens equally to him that lives according to nature,
and to him that doth not, is neither according to nature, nor against it;
and by consequent, neither good nor bad.