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deavor to do so, and to live like those many worthy 

 men of which you made mention in the former 

 part of your discourse. This is my firm resolu- 

 tion. And as a pious man advised his friend that 

 to beget mortification he should frequent churches 

 and view monuments and charnel-houses, and then 

 and there consider how many dead bones Time 

 had piled up at the gates of Death ; so when I 

 would beget content, and increase confidence in 

 the power and wisdom and providence of Al- 

 mighty God, I will walk the meadows by some 

 gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies 

 that take no care, and those very many other 

 various little living creatures that are not only 

 created, but fed, man knows not how, by the 

 goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore 

 trust in him. This is my purpose ; and so " Let 

 everything that hath breath praise the Lord : " 

 and let the blessing of Saint Peter's Master be with 

 mine. 



Pise. And upon all that are lovers of virtue, 

 and dare trust in his providence, and be quiet, 

 and go a-Angling. 



STUDY TO BE QUIET. i Thes. iv. 1 1 . 



THE END. 



