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9. Of Light and Heate.
Mark but the Sun-beames, when they shine most bright,They lend this lower world both heat & light:
They both are Children of the selfe same Mother,
Twinnes; not subsisting one without the other;
They both conspire unto the Common good,
When, in their proper places, understood:
Is't not rebellion against Sense to say,
Light helps to quicken: Or, the Beames of day
May lend a Heat, and yet no Light at all?
'Tis true, some obvious Shade may chance to fall
Vpon the quickned Plant, yet not so great,
To quench the operation of the Heate:
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Nor yet the Light from Heate; They neither might
Be mingled in the Act, nor found asunder:
Distinguish now fond man; or stay and wonder: Know then;
Their vertues differ though themselves agree;
Heat vivifyes; Light gives man powre to see
The thing so vivifyed: No Light, no Heate;
And where the heat's but small the light's not great:
They are inseparable, and sworne Lovers,
Yet differing thus; That quickens; This discovers:
Within these lines a sacred Myst'ry lurkes:
The Heat resembles Faith: the Light, Good-workes.
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