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Show . 0 f tbe aduanc.ement of learning; . fides the Theologicall (ence,much afperfion of P~t· lofophie. 1_ r b ·r· b . So likewife in that excellent Boo.Ke o !tJ . ' J tt e ·reuolued with diligence; it wil~ be fou?d pre~nant, and f\vellina with natural! Phtlofopli1e; astor ex ... · ample, Cof~ographie, an~ the roundndfe of the world : ,Qui extendt;,' aqutlonem fup~r vact19m, & appendit terra;n faper nihzJum: wheren1 the penGle .. netTe of the earth, the .pole of the .. N~~rth, an. the finiteneffe, or conuexitie of Heauen are ma~t .. . fefily touched. S? a§ain~ matter o~ A~onomte ; spirittls eius ornautr ccelos & objfetrtcante 1nanre e- . , itu. eduEttJs eft coluber tartttojiu. =~ .An~ in another · place~ Nnnquid coniungere tJale.bls m_tcantes .ft<llas pleyadas, aut (~yrum arffuri potertJ 4tfltfare ? where the fixing of the fiarres, ener ~andtng at equ ~·ll diftance, is with great eleganct.e note~ : And tn .another ,place; f!J!.t fitrit. arEtttru1J!, ~ onontt,& h)'- . adas, & interior a arJffri, \Vhere agatne bee takes knowledge of the deprefsion ofthe Southerne pole, . calling it th.e fecrets of. the South, f)ecaufe the fou .. therne fiarres \Vere in· that climate vnfeene. Mat· ter of genetation, Ann on frut lac mttlfifli me,~ ficut c~Jcr~m coagtllajli me~ &r. l\1atterof :tvlynerals,H abet arO'entum venar~tm foarttm principiA. : & 1.1~ro / octts eft in 6 qr1o conflat ur ,ferrum de tl!rr a t oUitJw, & Ia pis fo/!utt& cal()re in£ s vertittn: and [o forwards in that Chapter. So li~ewife in the perf on of s ttlorncn the King, w~e fee the guift or endowment of wi(edome and learning both in Sa! a mons petition,andin .. · Gods The frfl13oo~. . 30 · Gods a!fent. thereunto preferred before au· other terrene and tetnporallfelicitie. By'vertue of which grantor donatiueof God, Salomon becatne inabled, not on ely to write thofe excellent Parables , or Aphorifmes concerning diuine and moraii Philofophie; but alfo to compile a naturall Hifiorie· of all verdor, from the Cedar vpon the Mountaine, to the molfe vppon the \vall, (which is but a rudiment betweene putrefattion, and an hear be) and ~Jfo of all ·things, th~t breath or. n1ooue. Nay the fame s al~mon the Ktng, although he excelled in the glone of treafure and magnificent buildings of fhipptng and Nauigation, of (eruice and attendance, of tame and renowne, and the like; yet he·e maketh no claime to any of thofe gia.ries; but on ely to the g1orie oflnquifltion of truth.: .for fo he fayth exprefi'ely! The glorie of God is to C011rta!e a thino- Btlt the glo~ie qf.the King is to J!nd it out, as ~f ~cco~ding to the Innocent play of Chtldren the dnune Maie-fiie took e. delight to hide his workes, to the end to hane .them· found out, ana as if Kinges could not obraine-a:·greater honour, than to bee Gods play· fell owes tn that g~me, confidering tb~ great £otrt- . t:naundetnent o~ Wits and meanes, whereby nothing needeth to be htdden from them. . . Neither did the di(penfation of God varie in the t1m~s afie~ our Sauiour came into the wor1d;fer our ~au tour htmfelfe did firfi fhew hi~ power to fubdue 1gnorance, .by his conference with· the Priefis and Dotlors of thelawe ; before he !hewed his pQwer . H 3 to |