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The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
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Chapter 14: Motives inciting Christians to exercise themselves to Godliness. The Vanity of other ex…
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Truly Reader, I may tell thee, if thou art one that busiest thy self about a throng of worldly businesses, and crowdest thy mind and heart with projects and designs, to increase thy heaps, and advance thy name, and provide for thy children, and procure thy self a comfortable subsistence for a few days, that after all thy care, and trouble, ⟨p. 828⟩and restlessness, and vexation, and hazards, and dangers, thou wilt be never the better: Thou wilt, but like them that spend their time, and money, and thoughts for the Philosophers stone, reap thy labour for thy pains, and find all unprofitable. Felix Platerus is of opinion, that all Alchemists are mad, in being so laborious for nothing.
Truly Reader, I may tell thee, if thou art one that busiest thy self about a throng of worldly businesses, and crowdest thy mind and heart with projects and designs, to increase thy heaps, and advance thy name, and provide for thy children, and procure thy self a comfortable subsistance for a few days, that after all thy care, and trouble, ⟨p. 828⟩and restlesness, and vexation, and hazards, and dangers, thou wilt be never the better: Thou wilt, but like them that spend their time, and money, and thoughts for the Phylosophers stone, reap thy labour for thy pains, and find all unprofitable. Felix Platerus is of opinion, that all Alchymists are mad, in being so laborious for nothing.
May I not say to thee truly concerning thy pains and time, what Judas did falsely concerning the Ointment, To what purpose is this Waste? To what purpose is thy waste of time, and strength, and health? Alas, what profit will all thy pains bring thee in?
May I not say to thee truly concerning thy pains and time, what Iudas did falsly concerning the Oyntment, To what purpose is this Waste? To what purpose is thy waste of time, and strength, and health? Alas, what profit will all thy pains bring thee in?