AChain of Principles: 369 would all quicklybe overflown. Well Exerc. 4. may themultitude of the ifles be glad thereof: for what are they in regard of the Ocean that furrounds them, but as Co many nutthels in a great veffel of water ; how fuddainly drowned, if God did not reign fo as to refrain that element ? ç. 4. But I mull not allow my felf too much fcope, I íhall therefore re- f}rain my future difcourfe upon this head to the foie creation of man and íhew how goodness appeared in it. It is reported as the speech of Favorinus; x,mireti1 m4_ That in the vafl î orld of creatures there erocofm;mat- is num Prater mi- nothing truly great except the little world croc&uuv e of man. Surely, next to theknowledge ofGod there is nothingofmore con- cernment to us ; and therefore let nonewonder at me who cannot go over all, for fingling out his creation tobe intifledupon : concerningwhich I intend to thew out of certain texts in Genefis , the consultation upon which , the pattern after which, and Bbb 2 the
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