Axiochus

and notable reasons of the soul's immortality tend.

For it is not the weak nature of mortal man to raise himself to the fulfilling of such high and haughty matters, as to despise the ramping rage of wild beasts, to jeopard himself in the wasteful sea, to build Cities, and them with laws and policy to establish: to look up into heaven, and mark the course of the Stars; and the ways of the Sun and Moon, with their risings and setting, to consider their eclipses, their spaces, their making of the nights and days alike, their double conversions, to behold the order of the winds, the seven watery stars referring to the seven classical planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon, of winter, of summer, of storms, with the violent rage of whirlwinds, and as it were these labours of the world, to deliver to posterity, unless in our minds there were a certain divine spirit and understanding, which could comprehend and reach unto the supernatural knowledge of so great matters.

Wherefore now O Axiochus, thou art not in the way to death, but to immortality, neither shalt thou (as thou didst seem right now to fear) be bereft of all good, but shall hereby enjoy true and perfect good: Neither shalt thou perceive such dirty pleasures as are these, being mingled with the puddle of this sinful body, but most pure and perfect delight