Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.

  • Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
Date:
1763
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Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3° ] plant, from the feed, which is to grow into an incor¬ ruptible and glorious body, and be again united to its own foul, agreable to what holy Job profeffes, which we ufe in our admirable buryal fervice. cc 'Though after my Jkin worms cleflroy this body, yet cc in my flef^ my identical, fpecifc body> fall I fee u God. u I fall fee him for my felf and not for another. iC my foul fall be united to my own body ; no met am- u pfychofisr The antient Egyptians raifed their immenfe works of the pyramids, as a moft lafting houfe for their body, which they expected, was to be reunited to the foul, for the fame reafon they preferred their bodys, in the line mummys which we fee at this day. an art they learnt from the patriarch JOSEPH. In every feed there is a radical, feminal point, which produces the plant, and this is but a fmall point, and part of the feed, for much the larger part of a feed, a garden bean for inftance, tho’ deftgn’d for our food, is deftin’d to the nourishment of that feminal point, whilft it puts forth the germ upwards, the radicle downwards, to gather nourifhment from the earth ; and fhift for its felf. And here comes in the do&rine of the great St. Paul, that wonderful piece of metaphyiics, comprehended in the fifteenth chapter of I. Corinth, ufed likewife in our buryal fervice. a chapter, that after a thoufand times reading, will furnifh matter of admiration, as well as inftru&ion, in the moft interefting affair to the human mind. So