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If thow owest thy whole self to thy God for thy Creation,
Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
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- Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son.
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- Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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- London :: printed for W. Chandeler, in the Pourcy; and Tho. Scott, in Cranbone-Street, Leicester-Fields,
- 1698.
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"Wisdom's better than money: or, The whole art of knowledge and the art to know men. In four hundred sentencious essays, political and moral. Written by a late person of quality; and left as a legacy to his son." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56847.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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what hast thou left to pay for thy Redemption, that was not so cheap as the Creation? In thy Creation he gave thee thy self, and by thy self to him; in thy Redemption he gave him∣self to thee, and through him restored thee to thy self: Thou art given and restored, now what owest thou to thy God? If thou hast paid all thy Debts, give him the Surplusage; and thou hast merited.