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Sourced quotes from Edward Reynolds in the Postmilstill archive, with works and topics linked for reading and research.
A natural man feeds on worldly things by sense, a spiritual man on heavenly things by faith and conscience. We can have nothing from the first Adam which is not mortal and mortiferous. Nothing from the second which is no…
So then the creature can never be proportionable to the soul of man, till it bring God along with it: so long as it is empty of God, so long must it needs be full of vanity and vexation.
Get repentance by an affliction, and then you may look on it as traffic, and not as a trouble, like a merchant's voyage, which has pain in the way, but treasure in the end.
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A natural man feeds on worldly things by sense, a spiritual man on heavenly things by faith and conscience. We can have nothing from the first Adam which is not mortal and mortiferous. Nothing from the second which is no…
So then the creature can never be proportionable to the soul of man, till it bring God along with it: so long as it is empty of God, so long must it needs be full of vanity and vexation.
Get repentance by an affliction, and then you may look on it as traffic, and not as a trouble, like a merchant's voyage, which has pain in the way, but treasure in the end.