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Title:
The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent.
Author: R. B., Gent.
Collection:
Early English Books Online
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OF THE
MORTALITIE
OF MAN.
WHat art thou (O Man) and
from whence hadst thou
thy beginning? What
matter art thou made
of, that thou promisest
to thy selfe length of daies: or to thy
posterity continuance. I haue read the
truest computer of Times, and the best
Arithmetician that euer breathed, and
he reduceth thy dayes into a short num∣ber:
The daies of Man are threescore
and ten. That reuerend Patriarch Iacob,
(though he had liued a long and prospe∣rous
time) yet he confesseth his daies to
be few and euill: the life of Man (saith
the Prophet) is as the grasse that soone
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