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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 11, cont. (p.30) |
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our condition and state in this, is as infirm as in our bodies; where physitians consi- der only two degrees; sicknesse, and neu- trality; for there is no health in us. This, Sir, I use to say to you, rather to have so good a witnesse and corrector of my medi- tations, then to advise; and yet to do that too, since it is pardonable in a friend: Not to slack you towards those friends which are religious in other clothes then we; (for Amici vitia si feras facis tua, is true of such faults) but to keep you awake against such as the place where you must live will of- ten obtrude, which are not onely naked, without any fashion of such garments, but have neither the body of Religion, which is morall honesty, and sociable faithfulness, nor the soul, Christianity. I know not how this paper scaped last week which I send now; I was so sure that I enwrapped it then, that I should be so still, but that I had but one copy; forgive it as you use to do. From Micham in as much haste, and with as ill Pen and Inke, as the letter can accuse me [CW: of;] |
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