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The tenth Symptome. Security in a State of Uncertainty.
THe Times are then least free from pe∣rill, [unspec X] When there is a general Security upon the Spirits of men without any regular settlement of Church or State. When all things are much out of Order, and yet all sorts of men sit down secure in their pre∣sent state and condition. When notwith∣standing the great changes wrought by the Divine Providence in the world, men are generally so secure as if they had never seene, or were sure they never should see any change. Strange it is that a ship new∣ly tost with a Tempest, and very lately like to have been swallow'd up by the Seas, should saile securely among the yet unquiet Waves, when the cloudy heavens threa∣ten a new storme. Though the storme be past, it's no wisdome while men are yet at sea, to be secure in a Calme. Men are oft in most Danger when they are in least fear of Danger. Do not your Mariners observe, that the greatest Calme is oft the Fore∣runner of the greatest Storme? And have not the most dangerous Earth-quakes come unawares, after a still and quiet season,