CHAP. XXXV.
IMp not thy wings with the Churches feathers, lest thou fly to thy own ruine. That God who chose the Tribe of
Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H.
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- Title
- Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H.
- Author
- Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Thomas Helder ...,
- 1669.
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- Subject terms
- Meditations.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
- Maxims.
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"Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43351.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Levi for his Inheritance, pro∣mised to be theirs, and will protect them; if thou deprive him of his blessing, he will pursue thee with his curse. Impropriations are bold Me∣taphors, but being continued are deadly Allegories. One foot of Land in Capite en∣cumbers the whole estate. The Eagle snatched a cole from the Altar, but it fired her Nest.