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I And fruly, I do not know, but that the1 sins of the Blessed may be blotted out, evenof their own Memories. Some Philosophersj who were of Opinion, that Souls præ-existbefore their Bodies, thought they were diptI in Lethe, which is a Fountain causing Obli-| Vion, by means whereof they forgat what-| ever they had done before. This I look upon! as a dream, or Fancy .- but truly I am inch-I nable sometimes to imagine, that the Soul ofMan can hardly be entirely happy, unless itbe as it were thus dipt in Lethe .-. for everysinful Action having a natural Turpitude init, and being dishonourable, how can theMemory and thought of it, but beget suchan ungrateful Passion as Shame, even to E-ternity ? And what do Divines mean by say-| ing, that the action [ of sinning ] suddenlypasses away, but the stain and blot of it re-mains ; but that a vicious action, even bythem to whom it is pardoned, can never bej thought of without grief and disturbance, it' leaves an indelible scar in the Soul, which; can never be perfectly healed and oblitera-ted.

| x. It concerns us much to live in all holyConversation in this World, as we desire to1 avoid that Pain and Misery, which we shall! otherwise most certainly be adjudged to at

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