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Postscript: Created for Service


"Oh, how absurd is it to conceive that God should work a body so `curiously in the lowest parts of the earth,' embroider it with nerves, veins, variety and proportion of parts, (miracles enough, saith one, between head and foot to fill a volume,) and then enliven it with a spark of His own fire, a ray of His own light, an angelical and heaven-born soul, and send this picture of His own perfections, this comely creature, into the world, merely to eat, and drink, and sleep, or to buy, and sell, and sow, and reap. Surely the only wise God had a higher end and nobler design in forming and fashioning man with so much care and cost."

 

-- George Swinnock (1627-1673)



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