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“sagtndiindindiing’n 
Hen creer anen ee 
HISTORY 
Life and Death. — 
The Profuce. 
SIT is an ancient faying and complaint , That Life is 
|| fhort and Art long; wherefore it behoveth us, who 
erry ||((/t 
i Sq) make it our chicfeft aim to sae Arts, to take up- 
Bea) On us the confideration of Prolonging Mans Life , 
+ [idl GOD, the Author of all Truth and Life, profper- 
58 zt. ; 
Ages) ing our Endeavors. - For though the Life of Man be 
e5 J} nothingelfe but a mafs and accumulation of fins and 
forrows, and they that look for an Eternal Life fet but 
light by a Temporary : Yet thecontinuation of VVorks of Charity ought 
not to be contemned, even by us Christians. Befides, the beloved Difciple 
of our Lord furvived the other Difciples; and many of the Fathers of the 
Churck, efpecially of the holy Monks and Hermits, were long-lived : 
VVhich fhews, that this blefsing of long life, fo o'ten promifed inthe Old 
Law, had lefs abatement after our Savieurs days then other earthly blefs- 
ings had; but to efteem of this as the chiefeft good, we are but too 
|prone. Onely the enquiry is difficult how to attain the fame; and fo 
much the rather, becaufe it is corrupted with falfe opinions and vain re- 
{ports: For both thofe things which the vulgar Phyfitians talk of, Radical 
| Moifture and Natural Hear, are but meer Fi@ions ; and the vaigamee 
| raifes 
