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 54 Anne Bradjlrcers Works.

��XXVII.

TT is a pleafant thing to behold the light, but fore ■^ eyes are not able to look vpon it ; the pure in heart Ihall fe God, but the defiled in confcience fliall rather choofe to be buried vnder rocks and mountains then to behold the prefence of the Lamb.

XXVIII.

"X IS TISEDOME with an inheritance is good, but ^ ' wifedome without an inheritance is better then an inheritance without wifedome.

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��XXIX.

IGHTENING doth vfually preceed thunder, and ftormes, raine; and ftroaks do not often fall till

��after threatening.

��XXX.

��"^T'ELLOW leaues argue want of fap, and gra}^ ■*■ haires want of moifture ; lb dry and faplelTe per- formances are limptoms of little fpiritall vigor.

��XXXI.

TRON till it be throughly heat is vncapable to be wrought; fo God fees good to call fome men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anuile into what frame he pleafes.

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