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When to the Fields we walke to looke upon Some skilfull Mark-man; so much heede we not How many Arrowes from his Bowe are gone, As we observe how nigh the Marke he shot: And, justly we deride that Man who spends His Time and Shafts; but never ayme doth take To hit the White; or foolishly pretends, The number of the Shots, doth Archers make. So, God, who marketh our Endeavours, here, Doth not by tale, account of them receive; But, heedeth rather how well meant they were, And, at his Will how rightly aym'd we have. It is not mumbling over thrice a day A Set of Ave Maries, or of Creeds, Or many houres formally to pray; When from a dull Devotion it proceedes: Nor is it, up and downe the Land to seeke To finde those well breath'd Lecturers, that can Preach thrice a Sabbath; and sixe times a weeke, Yet be as fresh, as when they first beganne: Nor, is it, such like things perform'd by Number Which God respects: Nor doth his Wisdome crave Those many Vanities, wherewith some cumber Their Bodies, as if those their Soules could save. For, not Much-doing, but Well-doing, that Which God commands, the Doer, justifies. To pray without Devotion, is to Prate; And, Hearing is but halfe our Exercise. We ought not, therefore, to regard, alone, How often, but how Well, the Worke be done.

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NON QUAM CREBRO SED QUAM BENE.

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Oft Shooting, doth not Archers make; But, hitting right the Marke they take.

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