. 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 laying and complaint, Tl-at Life isfhort and jln long; wi crcforc it behoveth us, it our chiefcft aim to perfc(fl y/w, to take up-on us the confidcration ot Frolovpn^ Mans Life ,G 07), the tyluihor of all Triitb and Life, prolpcr-ing our lor thougli t: e Life oi AUn benothingellc but a ma(? and accumulation of (ins andforrows, and thcv tha
. 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 laying and complaint, Tl-at Life isfhort and jln long; wi crcforc it behoveth us, it our chiefcft aim to perfc(fl y/w, to take up-on us the confidcration ot Frolovpn^ Mans Life ,G 07), the tyluihor of all Triitb and Life, prolpcr-ing our lor thougli t: e Life oi AUn benothingellc but a ma(? and accumulation of (ins andforrows, and thcv that look for an Eternal Life icf butlight by a Temporary : Yctthccontinuation of VV^orks ot Charitvouphcnot to be contemned, even b us Chnnuus. Bcfidcs, the beloved JJifupleo our Lord liirvivcd the other7)»/n/>/<j; and manv o the Fatherso theChurck, cipecially of the holv Monks and Hermits, *erc long-lived .^Vhichrhews, that this blcfsing of long life, fo often promifed in the OldLaw, had lefs abatement after our ^JtioKr/ days then other earthly blcfs-ings had ; but to cfteem of this as the chictcft good, we are but tooprone. Onely the cnquirv i-; difficult how to attain the lame ; and lbmuch the ratiicr, bcca
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