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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.