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Most of our Ignorance & Unhappynesse proceeds, from our seeking the Contrary Qualityes in the wrong Places. For we search for Knowledg in the Little World, & Felicity in the Great: (& so prove equally disappointed in our Speculations & Fruitions:) Whereas we shud learne the Knoledge of Things['T' altered from 't'] without us, from the thinges that are so: & seeke our owne Happynesse, In, (I say not From) our selves. We vainly seeke the Felicity of the Little World in the greate, for Luke XVII, 21, Rom. XIV, 17 [space of 5-6 chars]: & the Knowledge of the Greate World in the Little, Job. X, 7.

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No Good King dos more studiously decline the Conceding any Monopolies['ies' altered from 'y'], then the King of Kings dos the Granting a Monopoly of Parts.

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Speaking of our Ministers & Tub-preachers And tho there may be some Exceptions; yet generally speaking, there's no man makes a Doublet so well as a Taylor.

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As Herbs ev'n after they are gather'd do still retaine their Medicinall Virtues; so may Th: yet after hir Death cure our distemperd Minds by hir Example; & prove an Antidote against those Passions & Temptations, she so generously resisted in hir life-time.