CHAP. LXXXIX.
LEt thy serious thoughts of Eternity like a perspe∣ctive-glass, present it near; con∣sidering thou art alwayes upon
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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- Meditations.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
- Maxims.
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the verge of that estate, where time and change shall be no more. Xeuxis that famous Pain∣ter being slow at his work, and suffering no Piece of his to go abroad without often reviewing; and being demand∣ed why he was so curious, and so tedious in the use of his Pensil, answered, that what he Painted, he Painted for Eternity; even so what thou dost shall be transmitted to Eternity; but what thou hast will perish with the using; be careful therefore rather of what thou dost, then what thou hast; neglecting rather thy Temporal then thy Eter∣nal concerns.