A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

That little that we do know of any thing, we come so droppingly to the knowledge §3of it, that ere we can lay things together, so as to compare them, and separate them, and sort them, and compound them, so as to make a judgment, either things themselves, or our circumstances are altered, or upon alteration, there is such a mutability both in persons, and things, and times, that it is as if one would undertake to gather at the same time Primroses and Violets, and Roses and Gillyflowers to make a Nosegay, when some of these are withered, ere the others be budded: When we call in the help of wiser heads than our own, there's nothing more ordinary than when wise men give good Advice, those they give it to, want Wisdom to receive it, suspecting some over-reaching Design, and therefore dare not trust them, and who can say how soon? Psal. 146.4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his Earth: in that very day his thoughts perish; the Princes thoughts perish, and the thoughts of him that trusted in him perish.

That little that we do know of any thing, we come so droppingly to the knowledg §3of it, that e're we can lay things together, so as to compare them, and separate them, and sort them, and compound them, so as to make a judgment, either things themselves, or our circumstances are altered, or upon alteration, there is such a mutability both in persons, and things, and times, that it is as if one would undertake to gather at the same time Primroses and Violets, and Roses and Gilliflowers to make a Nosegay, when some of these are withered, e're the others be budded: When we call in the help of wiser heads than our own, there's nothing more ordinary than when wise men give good Advice, those they give it to, want Wisdom to receive it, suspecting some over-reaching Design, and therefore dare not trust them, and who can say how soon? Psal. 146.4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his Earth: in that very day his thoughts perish; the Princes thoughts perish, and the thoughts of him that trusted in him perish.