. 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. A ^ To To the prefent Age and Pofterit>^, Lthough I had ranked the Hi (lory ofLife and Deaih as the lajlamongjl mySixMonethlyDefignations; yet Ihaye thought fit, in refficB oj the [rime ufe ^ thereof, [in which the leajl lo/^ of time ouoht to he ejleemed preciom) to invert that order^ and to fetid itforth in the[econd place. For I have hope, andivifh, that itmay conduce to a common good ; and that the J\(j)

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. 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. A ^ To To the prefent Age and Pofterit>^, Lthough I had ranked the Hi (lory ofLife and Deaih as the lajlamongjl mySixMonethlyDefignations; yet Ihaye thought fit, in refficB oj the [rime ufe ^ thereof, [in which the leajl lo/^ of time ouoht to he ejleemed preciom) to invert that order^ and to fetid itforth in the[econd place. For I have hope, andivifh, that itmay conduce to a common good ; and that the J\(j)hlerfort ofPhyficians wll advance their thoughts, and not employ theirtimes wholly in the fordidnefi of C iires , neither he honoredfor N eceffity onely, but that they will become C oad ju-tors WInftrmTientso/^/?(? Divine Omnipocence.^;/^CIeme;ncy /V2 Prolonging ^«^Renewing theLite -p f M an ; ejpecially feehig /prefcrihe it to be done byjapyand convenient, andciyiltoays, though hitherto ihoHoh w Chriftians do continually ajpire and pantafterthe Landof Promife 5 yet ifwill be a token ofGods favor^toivards us, in our jour?ieyings through thisWorlds Wildernefs, to have our Shoes^WGar-merLts (I riieanthofc of ou

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