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Excerpt from The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution: Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World; With Considerations and Discourses Upon the Several Parts of the Story, and Prayers Fitted to the Several Mysteries Now upon fuppofition of this propofition, which was alwayes true, and 42 is long fince by revelation (if nor by philofophy) made evident, we fhall finde, that whatfoever infiruments god fitted in order to mans laft end, that is, of living happily according to the duration of an immortall creature, muft alfo be fufiicient towards the life of immortality 3 or elfe it was infu ic'ient in the nature of the thing. There is no peradventure but that G O D. Did furnilh his nature with abilities to arrive to the end of his nature juli as all other creatures had fu icient-in rumentgappetites and powers to arrive to that end, which God defigned to them in their creations. And if it had been otherwife, man had been a creature imperfe&, and therefore nor goodzfor all fuch inrperfe ion, which is a deficiency from the naturall end, is monfirofi and an evil! Naturally and phyfieally and contrary to the laying of M02. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."