An antidote against distractions, or, An endeavour to serve the church, in the daily…An antidote against distractions, or, An indeavour to serve the church, in the daily…Richard Steele, 1667

Section 3

pp. 43–465 passages

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.

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:110p. 43

The third reason is taken from the Nature of our Condition, ¹and that is this,

THe third reason is taken from the Nature of our Condition, ¹and that is this,

1§. 3. From the Nature of our condition.

:111p. 43–44¶1

1. We cannot live without God. In him we live as to our natural life, every […] ⟨p. 44⟩is fetched from Him; so in our spiritual life, the life of the soul is He that made it. A world without a Sun, is dark; a body without a soul, is dead; but a soul without God, is dark, is dead, is damned: Its true, men feed, and sing, and make a shift without God in the World, but he that lives truly lives by faith; the other life Beasts live, they eat, and drink, and work, but know not God; but if you will define the life of a soul, God must be in the beginning, in the midst, and in the end of it.

1. We cannot live without God. In him we live as to our natural life, every 〈…〉 ⟨p. 44⟩is fetcht from Him; so in our spiritual life, the life of the soul is He that made it. A world without a Sun, is dark; a body without a soul, is dead; but a soul withont God, is dark, is dead, is damned: Its true, men feed, and sing, and make a shift without God in the World, but he that lives truly lives by faith; the other life Beasts live, they eat, and drink, and work, but know not God; but if you will define the life of a soul, God must be in the beginning, in the midst, and in the end of it.

An antidote against distractions, or, An endeavour to serve the church, in the daily…An antidote against distractions, or, An indeavour to serve the church, in the daily…Richard Steele, 1667

Section 3

pp. 43–465 passages

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.

:109p. 43

SECT. III.

:110p. 43

The third reason is taken from the Nature of our Condition, ¹and that is this,

THe third reason is taken from the Nature of our Condition, ¹and that is this,

1§. 3. From the Nature of our condition.

:111p. 43–44¶1

SECT. III.

Reformers309

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Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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