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 56 Anjie Bradjli'eet'' s Wo7'-ks.

��XXXVI.

OORE labourers haue hard hands, and old ſinners
 * ^-^ haue brawnie Conſciences.

��XXXVII.

T 11 TTCKEDNES comes to its height by degrees. ^ ' He that dares ſay of a leſſe ſin, is it not a little one? will ere long ſay of a greater, Tuſh, God regards it not !

��XXXVIII.

OOME Children are hardly weaned, although the ^^-^ teat be rub'd with wormwood or muſtard, they wil either wipe it off, or elſe ſuck down ſweet and bitter together; ſo is it with ſome Chriſtians, let God imbitter all the ſweets of this life, that ſo they might feed vpon more ſubſtantiall food, yet they are ſo childiſhly ſottiſh that they are ſtill huging and ſuck- ing theſe empty breſts, that God is forced to hedg vp their way with thornes, or lay affliction on their loynes, that ſo they might ſhake hands with the world before it bid them farwell.

XXXIX.

A PRUDENT mother will not cloth her little ■^ -^^ childe with a long and cumberſome garment; ſhe eaſily foreſees what euents it is like to produce, at the belt but falls and bruiſes, or perhaps ſomewhat

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