Apophthegmata Curiosa: Or, Reflections, Sentences, and Maxims, Historical, Moral, Philological and Divine. Being a Summary Collection, of Solid, Useful, and Necessary Cautions, Instructions and Rules, for the Conduct of Human Life ... Extracted from the M
Apophthegmata Curiosa: Or, Reflections, Sentences, and Maxims, Historical, Moral, Philological and Divine. Being a Summary Collection, of Solid, Useful, and Necessary Cautions, Instructions and Rules, for the Conduct of Human Life ... Extracted from the M
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1709 Excerpt: ...For Mens Minds will either Feed upon their own Good or the Evil of others. 209. It's a vai% Conceit and a meer Dream of Enthusiasts, concerning the Seculum Spiritut Santti, that in the Age and Dispensation of the Holy Ghost, all humane Teaching shall cease, and all external Ordinances and Institutions shall vanish and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1709 Excerpt: ...For Mens Minds will either Feed upon their own Good or the Evil of others. 209. It's a vai% Conceit and a meer Dream of Enthusiasts, concerning the Seculum Spiritut Santti, that in the Age and Dispensation of the Holy Ghost, all humane Teaching shall cease, and all external Ordinances and Institutions shall vanish and there shall be no further need of them. For it's very plain from the Ntw Testament, that Prayer and Preaching, and the use '0 Sacraments were intended to contin in all the Ages of the World. 210. The hainious Sin of Swearing upon trivial and needless Occasions, in common Conversation, is giving ones Soul to the Devil for nothing. Other Sins have pretence to Pleasure or Profit; but there is nothing to be got by Swearing but Damnation; tho' we find it a hard matter to cure those that will not believe they are Sick., or reclaim those that Custom has perswaded they don't offend. 211. Trouble not your selves with wishing that things were just as you would have them butbe well pleas'd they should be just as they are, and then you will live happily. 2i2-One Man does me Good by Mistake, another Ignorttntly, a third upon Force % but none of these Cases do I take 'to be an Obligation-, for they were neither dirctted to me, nor was there any kindness of Intention. 213. A Wiss e Saying, as ill becomes a Fool as Dancing does a Cripple; for as his Lameness does never so much appear, as when he would seem nimble Footed ', so the others Folly is never so Ridiculous, as when he would appear to be rnfi. 214. It's a common receiv'd Opinion, that the French are Wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem Wiser than they are. 215. Lenitives are proper in flight Diseases; but desperate Diseases must have desperate Cures., 216. AChirurgeon has a threefold appeara...
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