Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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HISTORY
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Life and Death.</
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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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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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of our Lord ſurvived the other Diſciples; </
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Law, had leſs abatement after our Saviours days then other earthly bleſs-
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much the rather, becauſe it is corrupted with falſe opinions and vain re-
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Moiſture and Natural Heat, are but meer Fictions; </
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