"to use" = "to do" in the 18th century?

[Charles C Doyle]

Isn't that phrasing just elliptical for "for ever uses [to do], as they do who"?  "Uses [to]" as the present-tense of the current pseudo-modal-auxiliary "used to":  'customarily, commonly'.

Charlie

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In the following context, is "for ever uses, as they do who" to be
understood as ""always does (practices, acts) as those do who"?

"Our Author in this Paper, and in every Thing published by him
relating to this, or any other Distemper, for ever uses, as they do
who make Venice Treacle."

Joel

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