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... able to beget the divine image ... ' Many will find this a welcome change from the almost manichean precepts of some of the religious ascetics ( whose counsels , to do them justice , were seldom intended for lay folk ) . Traherne ...
... able to beget the divine image ... ' Many will find this a welcome change from the almost manichean precepts of some of the religious ascetics ( whose counsels , to do them justice , were seldom intended for lay folk ) . Traherne ...
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... able to live in God's image , if we please ; for if God alone be infinitely glorious and blessed , there is no way for us to become glorious and blessed but by being made , either by ourselves or some other , like unto Him . By nature ...
... able to live in God's image , if we please ; for if God alone be infinitely glorious and blessed , there is no way for us to become glorious and blessed but by being made , either by ourselves or some other , like unto Him . By nature ...
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... able to do it . He hath made the soul on purpose that it might see Him . And if the eye , that was made for the world , being so little a ball of earth and water , can take in all , and see all that is visible ; if the sight of the eye ...
... able to do it . He hath made the soul on purpose that it might see Him . And if the eye , that was made for the world , being so little a ball of earth and water , can take in all , and see all that is visible ; if the sight of the eye ...
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