The book of nature translated and epitomiz'd. By George Sikes.

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The book of nature translated and epitomiz'd. By George Sikes.
Author
Sikes, George.
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[London :: s.n.],
Printed in the yeer 1667.
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The book of nature translated and epitomiz'd. By George Sikes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62084.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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SECT. IV.

THe right paying or performing of the secon∣dary debt of love, to all creatures, as the works of gods hands, but specially to all men (and yet more especially to the houshold faith, those that are not only made, but born of God) doth re∣dound wholly to the profit of man as well as his performing the first debt of love immediatly un∣to god himself. God is above all capacity of re∣ceiving any profit by any thing his creatur's can do. All inferiour things are designed for the pro∣fit of man, not of god. And all the duty god re∣quir's of man, is calculated singly and wholly to his own advantage. If he be wicked, he hurts other and himself; but god he cannot hurt. If he be righ∣teous, what gives he to god, or what receiveth god at hi hand? Job 35. 6, 8. The disadvantage of sin, and profit of righteousnes belongs to ourselvs only God can't be hurt by the one, or profited by th other.

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