The Godly Man's Picture

6 Think of your short stay in the world,¹ 1 Chron. 29. 15. Our days on the Earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. There is but a span between the Cradle and the Grave: Solomon saith, there is a time to be born, and a time to dye, Eccles. 3. 2. but mentions no time of living, as if that were so short, it were not worth naming; and time, when it is once gone, cannot be recalled; the ⟨p. 298⟩Scripture compares time to a flying Eagle, Jo• 9. 6.—yet, herein time differs from the Eagle, the Eagle flies forward, and then back again, but time hath wings only to fly forward, it never returns back. —fugit irrevocabile tempus—

6 Think of your short stay in the world,¹ 1 Chron. 29. 15. Our daies on the Earth are as a shaddow, and there is none abiding. There is but a span between the Cradle and the Grave: Solomon saith, there is a time to bee born, and a time to dye, Eccles. 3. 2. but mentions no time of living, as if that were so short, it were not worth naming; and time, when it is once gone, cannot be recalled; the ⟨p. 298⟩Scripture compares time to a flying Eagle, Io• 9. 6.—yet, herein time differs from the Eagle, the Eagle flies forward, and then back again, but time hath wings only to fly forward, it never returns back. —fugit irrevocabile tempus—

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