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that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But
above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc
dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and
expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth
the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy,

*'-----Extinctus amabitur idem."
 

III.

OF UNITY IN RELIGION.

Religion being the chief band of human society, it
is a happy thing when itself is well contained within,
the true band of unity. The quarrels and divisions
about religion were evils unknown to the heathen.
The reason was because the religion of the heathen
consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any
constant belief; for you may imagine what kind of
faith theirs was, when the chief doctors and fathers
of their Church were the poets. But the true God
hath this attribute, that He is a jealous God, and