---- The world lilleth us, us :we fiod out fdva worke.,nough to thinke; A What h•vt I 7tt? H.., may lKtl"""? Wt.atmujlll4J out ? What Jh•ll I ltavt{lr P•· jlerir1 ?H•"' ""1 1 prevt11t1he J>rlllg •f mine All'llerfary ? HDr1111,.Jl rtiMrllt it? Wlm ••frursfoaO I make 11 (uch •8eg•ti1111? What t»ltriAi»rlftrllfo.U Igive 11 (.ehfriends! What CDur{is {/tall/take in f•ch foits!In ,.hat ,ajlime fo•ll Ifiend tbil d•y? lsH~hattht mxt? What advantage Jb.U 1reapety this pr.Oice,,.h•t Ioift? Whit,.,. foid, Anfwered, replied, d•ne,f•Oo,td! Goodly thoughts, and fit for fpiriruall minds ! Say there were no otherworld; how could we fpend our cares otherwife! Unto this ondy neglctl, let me afcrihe hecommonneffe of that La~diet•• temper ofmeo; or (if that be worfc) ofthe dead !dneffewhich bath !lricken the hearts ofmaoy, having leftthem nothing but the bo iesofmen,and vifors ofChri!lians1 to this only,The1 li•ve nit mtdiwed.lt is not B mo impoflible tolivewithoutanheart, then to be dcvoutewithout Meditation. F.xbon"'g <o Would God therefore my words could be in this (as the Wife-man faith theword• ~~:.~;;;"''· ofthe wife are) like unto Gudsin the fides of every Reader, to quicken him up out ofthisdullandJa y ecut!ty,..toachee fullpratl!ceofdlis DivineMuitAJim.Lct him c_urfe m~ upon his ~eath-bed, iflooking backe from thence to the be!lowtngofh!S former 11mes, he acknowledge not thefe houres placed the moll happily in his whole life; if be tbeo with not he had worn out more dayes io fo profitable aod heavenly a worke.
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