spiritual healing, according to the rule by which things carnal are always antecedent1 as figurative of things spiritual. And thus, when the grace of God advanced to higher degrees among men,2 an accession of efficacy was granted to the waters and to the angel. They who3 were wont to remedy bodily defects,4 now heal the spirit; they who used to work temporal salvation,5 now renew eternal; they who did set free but once in the year, now save peoples in a body6 daily, death being done away through
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