. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. THE HISTOR Y OF Life and Death. The T is an ancient faying and complaint, That Life isfhort and Art long; wherefore it behoveth us, whomake it our chiefeft aim to perfect Arts, to take up-on us the confldcration or Prolonging Mans Life ,GOT), the ^Author of all Truth and Life, profper-ingour Endeavors. For though the Life of Man benothing elfe but a mafs and accumulation of fins andforrows, and they that lookfor an
. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. THE HISTOR Y OF Life and Death. The T is an ancient faying and complaint, That Life isfhort and Art long; wherefore it behoveth us, whomake it our chiefeft aim to perfect Arts, to take up-on us the confldcration or Prolonging Mans Life ,GOT), the ^Author of all Truth and Life, profper-ingour Endeavors. For though the Life of Man benothing elfe but a mafs and accumulation of fins andforrows, and they that lookfor an Eternal Life fct butlight by a Temporary : Yetthecontinuation of Works of Charity oughtnot to be contemned, even by us Christians. Bcfides, the beloved Difciplcof our Lord furvived the other <Difciples j and many of the Fathers of theChurch, cfpecially of the holy Monks and Hermits, were long-lived :Which fhews, that this blefsing of long life, fo often promifed in the OldLaw, had lefs abatement after our Saviours days then other earthly blefs-ings had ; but to cfteem of this as the chiefeft good, we are but tooprone. Onely the enquiry is difficult how to attain the fame; and fomuch the rather, becaufe it
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