A very excellent and learned discourse touching the tranquilitie and contentation of the minde : conteining sundry notable instructions and firme consolations most necessarie for all sortes of afflicted persons in these latter dayes (1592)
L'Espine, Jean de, 1506?-1597 · Cambridge : Printed by John Legate · leaf 188
TH£ FfFTH BOOI^E of the tranqulhtie and contentn- tionofthcminde. ^AGAINST TLEASVRE.A briefe fumrne of the vvhole Bodkc. Eesng that wee haue learned by evidentdemonflrations and found proofes out ofthewordeofGod, that this earthly life isbut a pilgrimage, and (as it were) a way … wherein we walk* vnto abetter life, thatis to/ay,vnto the l^ingdome of heaven: itfofloweth then that we muftfo vfe our bo*dies and our goods, be it either for nccef-fttie orforpleafure,that both may furthervsfor the attaitjing of that heavenly place, wherein our true reft andrepofe dwelleth…
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