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 58 Anne Bradjireet''s Woi^ks.

and many times he impofes waighty burdens on their Ihoulders, and yet they go vpright vnder them, but it matters not whether the load be more or lefTe if God afford his help.

XLII.

T HAUE feen an end of all perfection (fayd the royall prophet) ;* but he never fayd, I haue feen an end of all finning: what he did fay, may be eafily fayd by many; but what he did not fay, cannot truly be vttered by any.

XLIII.

I ?IRE hath its force abated by water, not b}' wind; -*- and anger muft be alayed by cold words, and not by bluflering threats.

XLIV.

A SHARP appetite and a through conco6fion, is -^ ■*- a figne of an healthfull body; fo a quick recep- tion, and a deliberate cogitation, argues a found mind.

XLV.-

"1 T "TE often fe ftones hang with drops, not from any

' ' innate moifture, but from a thick ayre about

them; fo may we fometime fe marble-hearted finners

feem full of contrition; but it is not from any dew of


 * Psalm cxix. 96.

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