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And yet I remember that
the most excellent Prince
CyruSf in his last exhorta-
tion to his sons upon his
death-bed, charms them into
peace and imion of hearts
and designs, by telling them
that his Soul would be still
alive, and therefore fit to be
revered and accoimted as
awful and venerable as when
he was alive : and what we
do to our dead friends is
not done to persons imdis-
ceming as a fallen tree, but
to such who better attend
to their relatives, and to
greater purposes, though in
other manner than they did
here below. And therefore
those wise persons who in
their funeral orations made
their doubt, with an " elf ns
c^trOriffis ToTs r€T€\€vrriK6ffi
vcpl rQv ivOdde yiyvoiiivtoVf If
the dead have any percep-
tion of what is done below,**
which are the words of Im-
crates, in the funeral enco-
mium of Evagoras, did it
upon the uncertain opinion
of the Soul's immorality;
but made no question, if
they were living, they did
also understand what could
concern them. The same
words Naziamen uses at the
exe<][uies of his sister Gor-
^onva, and in the former
invective against Jvlian :
but this was upon another



reason; even because it
was uncertain what the state
of separation was, and whe-
ther our dead perceive any
thing of us till we shall
meet in the day of Judg-
ment. If it was uncertain
then, it is certain since that
time we have had no new
revelation concerning it ; but
it is ten to one but when
we die we shall find the
state of affitirs wholly dif-
fering firom all our opinions
here, and that no man or
sect hath guessed any thing
at all of it as it is. 