How quietly (without the _swellings_ of _revenge_ and _wrath_) should we bear the daily _injuries_, _reproaches_, _persecutings_, &c. from the hands of men, who passe away and wither (it may be before night) like _grasse_, or as the _smoake_ on the chimnies top, and their _love_ and _hatred_ shall quickly perish? Yea, how _busie_, how _diligent_, how _solicitous_ should we be (like _strangers_ upon a strange _Coast_) waiting for a _winde_ or _passage_) to get _dispatched_ what we have to doe before wee hear that finall call, _Away, Away_, let us be gone from hence, &c. How should we ply to get _aboard_ that which will passe, and turne to blessed _account_ in our own _countrey_? How should we over-look and despise this _worlds trash_ which (as the holy _woman_ going to be burnt for _Christ_ said of money) will not passe in Heaven? How zealous for the true _God_, the true _Christ_, his _praise_, his _truth_, his _worship_, how faithfull in an humble witnesse against the _lyes_ and cozening delusions of the _Father of lyes_, though guilded o're with _truth_, and that _by_ the hands of the highest or holyest upon the Earth? How frequent, how constant (like _Christ Jesus_ our _Founder_ and _Example_) in doing good (especially to the _Souls_) of all men, especially to the _Household_ of _Faith_, yea even to our enemies, when we remember that this is our _seed time_, of which every minute is precious, and that as our _sowing_ is, must be our eternall _Harvest_: for so sayeth the Spirit by _Paul_ to the _Galathians_: _He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption_ or _rottennesse, and he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting_. _FINIS._ * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Obvious printer's errors were corrected. Every effort has been made to replicate this text faithfully, including obsolete and variant spellings, inconsistent and non-standard punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, and other inconsistencies. There are several places where opening or closing parentheses marks appear, and it is not clear from the text where the paired parenthesis would appear. In each case, the single parenthesis was left in place and no opening or closing parenthesis added. However, where printing issues interfere with readability, and the intent is absolutely clear from the text, changes were made to the transcribed text. For example: multiple spellings of "Iesus" have been changed to "Jesus". End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Experiments of Spiritual Life & Health, And their Preservatives, by Roger Williams