An essay to promote virtue by example in a collection of excellent sayings (divine and moral) of devout & learned men, in all ages, from the apostles time, to this present year, 1689 / By William Whitcombe, gent.

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An essay to promote virtue by example in a collection of excellent sayings (divine and moral) of devout & learned men, in all ages, from the apostles time, to this present year, 1689 / By William Whitcombe, gent.
Author
Whitcombe, William.
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London:: Printed for the author: and are to be sold by Edw. Evets ...,
1689.
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Maxims.
Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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Papist.

MY Lord of Worcester (being a Papist) had this Maxim, That he would not be Disordered within him∣self; only because things were out of Or∣der without him.

Queen Elizabeth was wont to say, That my Lord of Worcester had Re∣conciled what she thought Inconsistent; A stiff Papist to be a good Subject.

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