The Reason of the Minor.
For all things on which we live, whose life we enjoy, in the use of which we are delighted, are bound to the same Conditi∣on, are all subject unto death.
An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ...
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- An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ...
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- Newton, John, 1622-1678.
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- London :: Printed by E.T. and R.H. for Thomas Passenger ... and Ben. Hurlock ...,
- 1671.
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"An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52267.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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Confirmation. Morover our soul doth in∣habit but an infirm and weak cottage, which doth in it self consist of adverse and contrary elements, and from without it self, is assalted with many and great dangers. To which purpose Seneca saith well, that we are deceived, when we look on our death, as if it were to come; a great part thereof is past, and this very time which we live is death.