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Show 0 f the A duane em nt rfLearnin~~ . d . . f.h Arch~tipe or firft plat forme, w htch .1s le. gehln t e .b ttes and atts of ·God, as farre as they is tn t e attrl t 1 1 dtotnan andmaybeobfe rue d wa· h { • o- ,, ~~r~ue~herein w~ may not {eeke it bythe nam~ · o~T~~~ning, for all!ear~ing_ is k?ow~e?~e acqm-d d 11 knowledoe 1n-~od ts ongtnall, And rthe er,e afno rea w e nut!\ loo0k e c. · b l an1e that I Or It y an?t ler n ·' . of wifedome or fapience, as the fcnptures c~U It. lt is {o then that in the worke of the Creauon,we fee a double ~n1anation ofvertue fr6 God;, the ~ne referring more proper! y to power, the oth~~ tow tfe. dotne the one expreLTed in making the fub,tfience of the m;ter & the other in difpofing the beanty of the . fourme. This bein"g fuppofed_,it ist? bee o~fert!cd, that for any thing which appeareth 1n th~ hdlorte of the Creation the confufed ~1a[e, and matter ofhea .. uen and earth was made in a mon1ept>and the order and difpofitiori of that Chaos or Ma[e,was the work ' of fixe dayes, fuch a note of difference .it plea fed God td put vppon the workes. ~fpo\ver, and the .. ' workes of wiledome: wherewith concurreth that in the former it is not fette do\vne, that God fayd, Let there be Heautn and Earth, as it isfet downe of the workesfollowing, but aetnally, that God made . · Heauen and .earth: the one carrying the ft ile of a Manufatture, and the other of a lawe, decree, or Councell. · , Toproceedetothat which is next in ?r~erfr~m God to fpirits : we fin de as farre as credtte ts to bee giuen to the celeftiall Hier:archy.e, of that fuppofed · Di onJfi!U, · ~he fiifi hook.!. · 2 S Dionyji&U_ th_e Senator of Athens the nrfi p~ace or. degree ts gtuen to the Angels· of loue, wh1ch are tearme4 Seraphim!Jth,e fecond to the Angels of light, · which are tearmed cherubim, and the third; and fo. following places to thrones, principalities, and the relt, which are all Angels of power and miniftry; {o as the Angels of.knowledge and illumination, are ~laced before the Angels of O~ice an~ domina-: uon. To defcend from fpir·its and intelleauall formes to fenfible and mater.iall fourrhes, wee read the· firft fourm.e that \Vas created) was light, which haih a relation .and c·orrefpondence in nature)and corporall.thinges, to knowledge in fpirits and in~ · · cor,porall thinges. : So in the dt~ribution of dayes, \Ve fee the ·day · wherin God did refi, & conteplate his owne·works, · · · ·was bleffed aboue all th~ dayes, wherein he did ef-fe~ land accomplifh them. , · Afi:er the· Creation was fini1hed, it -is fette· downe vnto vs, that man was placed in the · Ga:den to 'Y(i)rke the~ein , which. ·worke fo appointed to htm, could ·be no other than worke of · contemplation, that is, \V~en the end of worke is. but for exer-cife and ·experirnent, not for nece{sitie, for there'being then no reluclation of the creature, nor fweat of the browe, tnans em.pioytncilt muft ofc?nfequence haue ben matter of delight in the ex .. pertment and n<?~ matter oflabor for the vfe.-Againe · the_ ~r~ A~s wlitch man perfourmed in ·P·aradife, H confified |