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Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk; Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall to Which Is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk; Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall to Which Is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1867 Excerpt: ... Shortness of Time. The eldest of our forefathers lived not so much as a day to God, to whom a thousand years are as one day. We live but as an hour to the day of our forefathers; for if nine hundred and sixty were their day, our fourscore is but as the twelfth part of it. And yet of this our hour we live scarcely a minute to God: for take away all that time that is consumed in sleeping, dressing, feeding, and talking; of that little time there can remain not much more than nothing. Yet most men seek pastimes to hasten it, though in so doing they only spur a running horse. I had more need to redeem time with double care and labour, than to seek how to sell it for nothing. Youth and Age. Infancy is full of folly, youth is full of disorder and toil, and age is full of infirmity. Each state hath its burden, and that which is sufficient to produce weariness. Yet infancy longs after youth, and youth after more ae; and he that is very old, as he is a child for simplicity, so he would be for years. Old age is the best of the three; partly because it hath passed through the folly and disorder of the others; Eartly because the inconveniences of this state are only odily, with a better state of mind, and partly because it is nearest to dissolution. Nothing is more miserable than an old man that would be young again. It was an answer worthy the commendation of Petrarch, and what argued a mind truly philosophical, that when his friend bemoaned his age appearing in his white temples, and telling him he was sorry to see him look so old, replied, 'Nay, be sorry rather, that ever I was young, to be a fool.' On giving Reproof. It is the most thankless office in the world, to be a man's pander to sin. In other wrongs, one man is a wolf to another; but in this, a devil. And th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235829345
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235829340
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 354 gr

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