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rules of life.
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Summarily—
Wherever you are
Live to Conscience, which is the life of your life.
Live to Fame, which is the life after your life.
Therefore, may the Spirit of Christ be with you, so that you may rightly perceive and observe all these things:—and, from my heart, I desire the salvation of your soul, and all prosperity to your affairs, and that the perpetual splendour of your family, in church and country, may be transmitted through you to after ages.
Your most affectionate,
9th of June, 1645, the day on which you depart from me.
