Chapter VH.

"MAN THAT IS BORN OF A WOMAN HATH BUT A SHORT TIME TO LIVE, AND IS FULL OF MISERY. HE COMETH UP, AND IS CUT DOWN LIKE A FLOWER; HE FLEETH AS IT WERE A SHADOW, AND NEVER CONTINUETH IN ONE STAY."

"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH; OF WHOM MAY WE SEEK FOR SUCCOUR, BUT OF THEE, O LORD, WHO FOR OUR SINS ART JUSTLY DISPLEASED."

"O TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS, THAT WE MAY APPLY OUR HEARTS UNTO WISDOM."

CHAPTER VII.

THE CHRISTIAN LEARNING TO NUMBER HIS

DAYS.

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AVING now, good reader, according to my ability, endeavoured to show you the kind of manner in which GOD and Holy Church would have us spend our days, I trust you will bear with me, while, for your own sake, and in the name of CHRIST, I put a very solemn question to you. Have your past days been in any measure so spent?

I am painfully aware that the standard at which I have bid you aim is a low one. I have set your duties be