A69075:328
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
His soul was made a spiritual substance,1 which God breathed into that frame of the earth to give it a life, and such a life as had the excellency before spoken of.
His soule was made a spirituall substance,1 which God breathed into that frame of the earth to giue it a life, and such a life as had the excellencie before spoken of.
Why doth he call it the breath of God?
VVhy doth he call it the breath of God?
Because he made it Immediately, not of any of the elements, as he did all other creatures: that being a thing free from composition it might be immortal, and free from the corruption, decay and death that all other earthly creatures are subject unto. And therefore as it had life in it self when it was joined to the body, so it retaineth life when it is separated from the body.
Because he made it Immediately, not of any of the elements, as he did all other creatures: that being a thing free from composition it might be immortal, and free from the corruption, decay and death that all other earthlie creatures are subiect vnto. And therefore as it had life in it selfe when it was ioyned to the body, so it retaineth life when it is separated from the body.