If lovers spake, it was now all by lookes, None deign’d or durst be trouchman to their mind, Paper was barr’d, and penne, and inke, and bookes,
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If lovers spake, it was now all by lookes, None deign’d or durst be trouchman to their mind, Paper was barr’d, and penne, and inke, and bookes,
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This LIFTING UP OF OUR HANDS should put us in mind to take heed of sin, lest we defile our Hands therewith. Since it is very absurd, that those who are to bee the Trouchmen and Interpretours of prayer and divine administrations, should also be the instruments of wickednesse […]
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