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cellent en though living unde Κings that

deserve et ter than an Uncertain and wandring a me of thei Memori es, o dry and jejune Elogi es. For to this Potnt, the Invention os one of the Modern Poets, herebyhe ath in rich' the antient Fiction, is notin elegant. Ide ei gns that at the end of the Thread os ver Man' Life there hangs a Medat, or Tablet, hereo thema me of the Decea sed is lampi , and that Time ait up- O the Sheers of the Fatal Sister, and a Gon a the Thre ad is ut immediatet catches pili Medais, carries them a Way, and a liti leaster throws them out of his Bussem in to the Rive Lethel And that aho ut the Rive thereare a Wor Id of Bird Litying up and down that sinatch the Medais; and after the have carried the in abo ut in thei Beah a liti te hile,sosn after thro' Noglige nce suffer them Ofal in to the River Amongst these Birds that there a re a se Sinans found whicli is therget a Medat, remon immediatet to carr itto a cria in Temple consecrate to Immortali ty. No such Soans have almost ait 'd nou Age. An although mos Men, abundanil more ruorta in thei Pursu iis and Studies, than in thei Bodies, despis the Memor o their a me, a Sinny et Alr, nimim magnia laudis gentes Degenerat Sout

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such hos Philosoph an Severit springsfrom that Rout Non prius latides contem Lmus, quam laudanda facere lesioimus me

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De stigmentis Serentiarum. Lib. 2. Cap. II.

nerat, salis unde the same Divi fio in a manner illi Histor Ciuil For there are Eccissastica Chronicie , thereare Liυes of Fatber thereare elations of Synod and of the like Things appertaining to the Church. ut in Propriet of Speech, it is righil divided intoth Hi ior of the Gur: heeping the generat a me the Histor of Prophe Q, and the Hi ovis Proυidence. The First describes the Times, and disterent State of the Chureis Militant; hether me e fluctuant, a theis in ille Delage or moveable, a the rhin

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in the thlernes , or at Rest, a the , cinthe Templo That is, the State of the Churchin Persecution in Remove, an in eaee. In this Par I findi Deficience ather there is Superfluit here than aiat Ont this Icould ista, that the Virtue and Sincerit of the Narration ans Ner' to themas and Quantity.

os Prophe , consist of two elatives, the Prophe rit self, and the Accomptissment there of And theres ore themature offuch asorhought tibe, that ver Prophec of Scripture he sorte ruith the Event fulfilling the sam ;and this throughout ali the Age of the Worid, both so the et ter Confirmation o Falth, an for the stablishingis in o Art, and Shili, in the Interpretationis hos Prophecies, hicli are et uniuifillex Allowing,

neverthelesse, that Latitude hicli is properan familia unio Divine Prophecies thatthei Accomplissimenis may beioth perpetuat, and punctuat For the are of thema

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dous indings, an a tengili manifestlydisin tangi in and clearing the infelves , and the like : hicli serve nolint for the Consolation of the Minds of the Falthful, ut fortherastonishment and Convictio of the γnsciences of the Miched. CHA P.

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De Augimentis crentrarum. Lib. I. Cap. 12.

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in Civi Prudence, re seo the Letiori fgreat Personages, touchin Asfairs of Sta For of at the Voriis Men, there is nothing, in m Judgment, more seund and excellent than theseime Letters For the are imo natura than Oratrons an more advised, than Extempore Conferen ce. The same, When the are continued according to the Ἀ-ries of Time, as in thos frona Embasi ado Governor o Provinces, and therministe hos State, to ing or Senates ' o again frona them to their Ministersyare Without question,

os allisthers, the est Provision or History, and to a diligent Reader, the est Histories

NE ITHER are even Apothegm on lyso Delight, and Ornament, ut sor Bustinessalso, an Civit se. For the are fas 'me