Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head64" xml:space="preserve">THE
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          HISTORY
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          OF
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          Life and Death.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head65" xml:space="preserve">The Preface.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9127" xml:space="preserve">IT is an ancient ſaying and complaint, That Life is
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            ſhort and Art long; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9128" xml:space="preserve">wherefore it behoveth us, who
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            make it our chiefeſt aim to perfect Arts, to take up-
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            on us the conſideration of Prolonging Mans Life,
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            G O D, the Author of all Truth and Life, proſper-
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            ing our Endeavors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9129" xml:space="preserve">For though the Life of Man be
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            nothing elſe but a maſs and accumulation of ſins and
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            ſorrows, and they that look for an Eternal Life ſet but
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            light by a Temporary: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9130" xml:space="preserve">Yet the continuation of VVorks of Charity ought
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            not to be contemned, even by us Christians. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9131" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, the beloved Diſciple
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            of our Lord ſurvived the other Diſciples; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9132" xml:space="preserve">and many of the Fathers of the
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            Church, eſpecially of the holy Monks and Hermits, were long-lived:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9133" xml:space="preserve">VVhich ſhews, that this bleſsing of long life, ſo often promiſed in the Old
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            Law, had leſs abatement after our Saviours days then other earthly bleſs-
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            ings had; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9134" xml:space="preserve">but to eſte
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            em of this as the chiefeſt good, we are but too
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            prone. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9135" xml:space="preserve">Onely the enquiry is difficult how to attain the ſame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9136" xml:space="preserve">and ſo
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            much the rather, becauſe it is corrupted with falſe opinions and vain re-
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            ports: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9137" xml:space="preserve">For both thoſe things which the vulgar Phyſitians talk of, Radical
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            Moiſture and Natural Heat, are but meer Fictions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9138" xml:space="preserve">and the </s>
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