(h) Your Crantor.] An eminent Academician; and therefore Tully gives the Objection its full weight, using their own Terms, a Figure call'd Mimesis.
(i) Of his own.] Ajax the Son of Oileus, smitten with a Thunder-bolt, and wrack'd. Ajax the Son of Telamon was distracted, and fell upon his own Sword.
(k) Afflicted and laid prostrate.] To be humbled under the correcting hand of God, is the necessary Tribute of our Obedience; but to fret and repine, to torment our selves, to despond, neither answers the end of his Paternal Corre∣ction, nor commends our Sense of the Divine goodness; and cannot be a reasonable Service.
(l) A Confusion of Life, and all Duties.] Natural Self∣love, is the Standard of all Offices, of mutual Charity, and ground of distributive Justice; so that if every man be false to himself, where shall be had that Bank of Faith, from whence any may be true to another? Excess of Love ren∣ders