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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 34, cont. (p.102) |
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looks awry and squint. And so, for the most part, do mindes which have received divers impressions. I will not, nor need to you, compare the Religions. The channels of Gods mercies run through both fields; and they are sister teats of his graces, yet both diseased and infected, but not both alike. And I think, that as Copernicisme in the Ma- thematiques hath carried earth farther up, from the stupid Center; and yet not ho- noured it, nor advantaged it, because for the necessity of appearances, it hath carried heaven so much higher from it: so the Roman profession seems to exhale, and refine our wills from earthly Drugs, and Lees, more then the Reformed, and so seems to bring us nearer heaven; but then that carries heaven farther from us, by making us pass so many Courts, and Offices of Saints in this life, in all our petitions, and lying in a painfull prison in the next, during the plea- sure, not of him to whom we go, and who must be our Judge, but of them from whom we come, who know not our case. [CW: Sir] |
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