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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Some things of this kind may become parts of another more entire thing of the same kind: as we see in all those things wherein every part hath the same nature that the whole hath; as every drop of water is water, and being lest to it self, it is a subsistence in it self, and hath its quality, nature, and being in, and for it self; but if it be joined to a greater quantity of water, it hath now no being, quantity, nor operation, but in and for that greater quantity of water, into which it is poured.
1. Some things of this kind may become parts of another more entire thing of the same kind: as we see in all those things wherein every part hath the same nature that the whole hath; as every drop of water is water, and being lest to it self, it is a subsistence in it self, and hath its quality, nature, and being in, and for it self; but if it be joyned to a greater quantity of water, it hath now no being, quantity, nor operation, but in and for that greater quantity of water, into which it is poured.
2. Other things of this kind cannot naturally put themselves into the unity of any other thing; and yet by the help of some foreign cause they may be united; as the ⟨p. 127⟩branch of a Tree of one kind (which put into the ground, would be an entire, distinct Tree in it self) may by the hand of a man be put into the unity of a Tree of another kind; and so grow, move, and bear fruit, not distinctly in and for it self, but jointly in and for that Tree into which it is planted.
2. Other things of this kind cannot naturally put themselves into the unity of any other thing; and yet by the help of some forreign cause they may be united; as the ⟨p. 127⟩branch of a Tree of one kind (which put into the ground, would be an intire, distinct Tree in it self) may by the hand of a man be put into the unity of a Tree of another kind; and so grow, move, and bear fruit, not distinctly in and for it self, but jointly in and for that Tree into which it is planted.