Effigiate

Let me give you a hint and instance of it, in that one and remarkable example of Mary Magdalen, who though she were a notorious Malefactor, and a great and grievous Sinner, as the History Evangelical effigiates, and sets her forth unto us yet, hearing that Jesus sate down to meat in a Pharifee's house, she presumed and made bold to go into the house; and bringing an Alablaster-Box of Oyntment, she stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears;

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These tables were first made by God himself, Exod. xxxi. 18, and given into the hands of Moses; and when they were broken he was commanded […] to effigiate them, or cut stones after their image, into their likeness, for the first were seen only by himself, Deut. x. 11; Exod. xxxiv. 1.

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In other words, metaphysical wit discovers infinity in time, provides a transcendent vision of life and a means to truth, and effigiates, that is, portrays the secular in the sacred, the sacred in the secular.

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In the same way CAUSALITY is effigiated, not merely by cogitating a WORKER, but by representing such an actuating thing as antecedes in time, and upon which somewhat else invariably follows.

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