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CHAP. 17.--WHAT PRODUCES PEACE, AND WHAT DISCORD, BETWEEN
THE HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY CITIES.
But the families which do not live by faith seek their peace
in the earthly advantages of this life; while the families
which live by faith look for those eternal blessings
which are promised, and use as pilgrims such advantages of
time and of earth as do not fascinate and divert them from
God, but rather aid them to endure with
greater ease, and to keep down the number of those burdens
of the corruptible
THE HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY CITIES.
But the families which do not live by faith seek their peace
in the earthly advantages of this life; while the families
which live by faith look for those eternal blessings
which are promised, and use as pilgrims such advantages of
time and of earth as do not fascinate and divert them from
God, but rather aid them to endure with
greater ease, and to keep down the number of those burdens
of the corruptible