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 Meditations: 75

��Meditationes Divines & Ethiccs.

I.

I rST nihil occulis vilibile, hominum niillse a6liones,

^-^ nullum acquifitum bonum, nullum prsefens uel

futurum malum, a quibus omnibus animi salutem &

utilitatem promovere non pofsimus — Et ille homo,

non minus sapiens, quam plus eft, qui tales fru6tus ab

eis carpit.

II.

T3LURIMI queant bene loqui, at paucis bene agere.

•*■ Majores in fpeculatione, quam fumus in a6lione.

Ipfe autem revera Chriftianus est qui in utrifque pro-

ficit.

III.

TUVENTUS est capiendi, ampliandi setas media & remifsa, ignorantem facit mediam setatem, & fere, fen- eftutem, utrgeque vacuam reduat. Et cujus ell tantum vanitate & mendaciis cibus, cubitum maeftus eft eun- dum.
 * ^ utendi fene6lus, optima opportunitas. Juventus

Charlestown, Mass., and grandson of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, of New London, Conn. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1728, and was or- dained minister of the Second Church in Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 4, 1738, to fill the place of the Rev. Edward Holjoke, who had been elected Presi- dent of Harvard College. He is described as " a moft worthy, pious, devout chriftian, and faithful paftor," and also as " an excellent fcholar." — Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 75-76.

This Latin translation was probably made in his youth. He died Oct.

s, 1771-

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