these and similar passages, since their direct connection with the context is far closer in places where they have appeared already, than it would be here.*
I.
PHILOSOPHICAL MAXIMS.
Prayers to God (1132. 1133).
1132.
I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.
1133.
A PRAYER.
Thou, O God, dost sell us