Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.

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Title: Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.
Publication: London :: Printed for the author,; 1664.
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Subject terms: Youth -- Conduct of life.; Conduct of life.
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He that knows most, knows little to what he does not know; our knowledge is but in part; a Pismire may puzzle the profoundest wit. I admire at the pride, and impudence of those persons, who think to lade the Ocean with a Cockle-shell, yet are gravelled in a fellow-creature! how may those eyes look against the Sun, which a Candle dazles: I will not pry within the vail, nor search into what is se∣cret; it was therefore hid, that I might not know it; I will wait till it be revealed; in the mean while adore what I cannot comprehend.