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At a Sermon I saw a person so earnest to write it that he left his devotion before the prayer was done to provide tackling ready for the purpose; but as though he had been
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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a Clock wound up for one hour, assoon as the glasse was out, his fit was over, though the dis∣course were continued a little longer, and more pertinent and usefull then the former part. The Apostle saith, The Spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets, so as that they are not impulst into disorder and con∣fusion; and as that is a preposterous worship wherein one service leaps over the back of ano∣ther, so is that a pursy devotion, the pulses whereof are numbred exactly with the sands of the glasse; and they have a carnall Religion, who think not dayes and nights too tedious at Cards, or a Tavern, but would have been sad∣ly put to it, had they been Pauls Auditors, when he preacht till midnight.