Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.

XLVI.

It hath much startled me, and wiser men, to see the good fare ill, and the bad fare best; that vertue is neglected, and vice rewarded; but why should I wonder, when bones are thrown to Dogs? were those things good, good men should have them; slaves are paid off with these; my wages will be more, the longer it runs on, and my pay-day will come; I shall soon see how all things have been working for the best, that every River tended to its Ocean, and each Circumference to its Center; that it was the end of every Providence to do me good; it is imperfect what I take asunder; but when all parts are put together, it will ap∣pear beautiful; when what is in the myste∣ry, shall be in the history; and what is now a forming, shall be brought to open view.