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The eight Rule in Christian Arithme∣metick is this; number and compare your daies with the age of the World: if the whole Age of the World be so little compared with Eternity, and thine Age so short compared with the Worlds age, How small a thing is thy life com∣pared with Eternity! see Eccles. 1.4.
One generation passeth away and another cometh, but the Earth abideth for ever; add to this what is read Psal. 102.25. &c. Of old hast thou laid the foun∣dation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the works of thy hands, they shall perish but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years have no end. If thou should have been born in the beginning of the World, and have lived to the end of it, it is but a moment, and yet how narrow a space of the World's age dost thou live.