Excerpt from Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalWorld, half so stately and daintil'y as candle lights. Truth may perha 3 come to the price of a pearl, that showeth est by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or car buncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth eve1 add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one, would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy dzemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But< it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth' the hurt, such as wc'spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teach eth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which 18 the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. 1first he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breatheth hght intothe face and, still he breatheth and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.