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The eldest of our fore∣fathers liued not so much as a day to God; to whome a thousand yeeres is as no more; we liue but as an houre to the day of our forefa∣thers; for if nine hun∣dreth
Meditations and vowes, diuine and morall: a third century. By Ioseph Hall.
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- Meditations and vowes, diuine and morall: a third century. By Ioseph Hall.
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- Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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- 1606.
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and sixty were but their day, our fourescore is but as the twelfth part of it: and yet of this our houre we liue scarce a minute to God: For, take away all that time that is consumed in slee∣ping, dressing, feeding, talking, sporting; of that little time there can remaine not much more than nothing: yet the most seeke pas-times to hasten it: Those which seeke to mend the pase of Time, spurre a run∣ning horse. I had more neede to redeeme it with double care and
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labor, then to seeke how to sell it for nothing.