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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.
2. For before we consider the gross absurdity of such a supposed production, that is, that 1a thing should be brought to pass by so mere a casualty, that so evidently requires an exquisitely formed, and continued design, even though there were nothing positively to resist or hinder it. Let it be considered what there will be that cannot but most certainly hinder any such production. To this purpose we are to consider, That it is a vast power which so generally moves the diffused matter of the Universe.
2. For before we consider the gross absurdity of such a supposed production, that is, that 1a thing should be brought to pass by so meer a casualty, that so evidently requires an exquisitely formed, and continued design, even though there were nothing positively to resist or hinder it. Let it be considered what there will be that cannot but most certainly hinder any such production. To this purpose we are to consider, That it is a vast power which so generally moves the diffused matter of the Universe.
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Hereof make an estimate by considering what is requisite to the continual whirling about of such huge bulks as this whole massive globe of earth (according to some.) Or, which is much more strange, the Sun (according to others) with that unconceivably swift motion which this supposition makes necessary, together with the other Planets, and the innumerable heavenly Bodies besides, that are subject to the laws of a continual motion. Adding hereto how mighty power it is which must be ⟨p. 48⟩sufficient to all the productions, motions, and actions of all other things.
Hereof make an estimate by considering what is requisite to the continual whirling about of such huge bulks as this whole massie globe of earth (according to some.) Or, which is much more strange, the Sun (according to others) with that unconceiveably swift motion which this supposition makes necessary, together with the other Planets, and the innumerable heavenly Bodies besides, that are subject to the laws of a continual motion. Adding hereto how mighty power it is which must be