IV. All substances come soon to their change, and either
they shall be resolved by way of exhalation (if so be
that all things shall be reunited into one substance),
or as others maintain, they shall be scattered and dispersed.
As for that Rational Essence by which all things are governed,
as it best understandeth itself, both its own disposition,
and what it doth, and what matter it hath to do with and accordingly
doth all things; so we that do not, no wonder, if we wonder
at many things, the reasons whereof we cannot comprehend.

V. The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.

VI. Let this be thy only joy, and thy only comfort, from one
sociable kind action without intermission to pass unto another,
God being ever in thy mind.

VII. The rational commanding part, as it alone can stir up
and turn itself; so it maketh both itself to be, and everything
that happeneth, to appear unto itself, as it will itself.

VIII. According to the nature of the universe all things particular are
determined, not according to any other nature, either about compassing and
containing; or within, dispersed and contained; or without, depending.
Either this universe is a mere confused mass, and an intricate context
of things, which shall in time be scattered and dispersed again:
or it is an union consisting of order, and administered by Providence.
If the first, why should I desire to continue any longer in this fortuit
confusion and commixtion? or why should I take care for anything else,
but that as soon as may be I may be earth again? And why should I trouble