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The Living Temple
The living temple, or, A designed improvement of that notion that a good man is the temple of God by John Howe ...
London: printed for John Starkey, 1675
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.
But now since we find that the present state ⟨p. 41⟩of things is changeable, and actually changing, and that what is changeable is not necessarily, and of it self.
But now since we find that the present state ⟨p. 41⟩of things is changeable, and actually changing, and that what is changable is not necessarily, and of it self.
And since it is evident that there is some necessary Being, otherwise nothing could ever have been, and that without action nothing could be from it. Since also all change imports somewhat of passion, and all passion supposes action, and all action, active power, and active power an original seat or subject, that is self-active, or that hath the power of action in and of it self. For there could be no derivation of it from that which hath it not, and no first derivation, but from that which hath it originally of it self. And a first derivation there must be, since all things that are or ever have been furnished with it, and not of themselves must either mediately or immediately have derived it from that which had it of it self. It is therefore manifest, that there is a necessary self-active Being, The cause and Author of this perpetually variable state and frame of things. And hence,
And since it is evident that there is some necessary Being, otherwise nothing could ever have been, and that without action nothing could be from it. Since also all change imports somewhat of passion, and all passion supposes action, and all action, active power, and active power an original seat or subject, that is selfactive, or that hath the power of action in and of it self. For there could be no derivation of it from that which hath it not, and no firstderivation, but from that which hath it originally of it self. And a first derivation there must be, since all things that are or ever have been furnisht with it, and not of themselves must either mediately or immediately have derived it from that which had it of it self. It is therefore manifest, that there is a necessary selfactive Being, The cause and Author of this perpetually variable state and frame of things. And hence,