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It was His Wisdom made you Need the Sun.   It was His Goodness made you need the Sea.   Be Sensible of what you need, or Enjoy neither.   Consider how much you need them.  From thence they Derive their Value.   Suppose the Sun were Extinguished:  or the Sea were Drie.    There would be no light, no Beauty, no Warmth, no Fruits, no Flowers, no Pleasant Gardens, Feasts, or Prospects.  No wine no Oyl  no Bread, no Life no Motion.   Would you not give all the Gold and Silver in the Indies for such a Treasure?   Prize it now you have it, at that rate, and you shall be a Grateful Creature:  Nay you shall be a Divine and Heavenly Person.   For they in Heaven do Prize Blessings when they hav them. They in Earth when they hav them not, They in Hell Prize them, when they hav them not.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Centuries of Meditation I