Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.
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Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.
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Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.
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London :: printed by M.S. for H. Crips, at his shop in Popes-head Alley next Lombard Street,
1662.
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Bible -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
History -- Early works to 1800.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63127.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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Policletus being to make two Statues, con∣trived one of them according to the exact rules of his Art, the other according to the fancy of every one that came by; which when he had exposed to publicke view, the first was applauded by all, the other laught at by those that had themselves given direction for its fashion. What itching fingers hath every meane person to be medling with those in publicke imployments; and they who can∣not ken their A. B. C. will yet take upon them to censure their Teachers, and direct for the management of their function. Yea, Lord, we are ready to say, Why is it thus? and to think if we had the disposing of worldly affairs, those things should never have been which have happened; but we would more compendiously effect those ends which we think God proposeth to himselfe: But were it so, how would unruly passions and unbrid∣led affections distort us, and lead us into fa∣ctions and fooleries, to the vexation of others, and disquieting of our selves, and perverting
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those ends, which culminantly should have been in our eyes?
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