An effectual prescription against the anguish of all diseases and against all other afflictions to which the nature of man is subject. Penn'd, and publish'd, and approv'd, from the author's experience of it: but more especially from the experience of very many much greater and better men, the latchet of whose shoes he is not worthy to untie.

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Title: An effectual prescription against the anguish of all diseases and against all other afflictions to which the nature of man is subject. Penn'd, and publish'd, and approv'd, from the author's experience of it: but more especially from the experience of very many much greater and better men, the latchet of whose shoes he is not worthy to untie.
Author: Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.
Publication: Oxford :: printed by Leon. Lichfield, for Samuel Clark, bookseller,; an. Dom. 1691.
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Subject terms: Christian life -- Quotations, maxims, &c. -- Early works to 1800.
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§. IX.

Thus I take my self to have proved St. Paul's Exhortative to be Rational, which some sensual Apolausticks would gladly have to be Ridiculous. 'Tis an Exhortative to no∣thing but what is possible, and lawful, and highly laudable in its Attainment. A Chri∣stian Duty recommended, if not commanded to be done, and in the Doing of which there is great Reward.