The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.
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- The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.
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- Bentley, James.
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- At London :: Printed by I.R. for Nicholas Ling ...,
- 1600.
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"The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08598.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.
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preuent the suddaine stroake of death? or vvho can assure himselfe of so much cer∣taintie, as to performe tomorrow, what he left vndone to day? For, man hath no as∣surance of his owne life; but liues vncer∣taine of his last howre, finding nothing in this world that he may boldly leane or trust vnto.
Hee vvanders alwayes vp and downe among most vncertaine and doubtfull chaunces, onely comforting his mind with hope; but neuer knowing certainlie vvhat shall befall him, or howe, when, or where, he shall leaue his carkasse.
When hee goeth out of his house, hee is not sure to returne into the same againe: and when he entereth into his house, hee is asmuch vncertaine to goe foorth againe. Likewise, when he sitteth downe to meate, he knoweth not that he shal rise vp againe, and lying down in his bed at night, he can∣not promise to come safe from thence the next morning.
But this thing onely, of all other in the world, is most certaine to man, that death is common to all; though to some one way, and to some another.
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Thales.
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Socrates.
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Seneca.
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Demonax.