"Chain Chain ofPrinciple's A h. 6.' firer ofmen. As God made all .thing,s, by the wordofhis command,l- e con mantled and they were created , fo he. P "11.148. 5'. upholds them all in being by the word ofhia power. Heaven., earth fea, man and beat} efpecially man. It is not with, God , as with carpenters and lhip- wrights , who make houfes for other men to dwell in, veffels for others to fail in and therefore after they arç made look after them no more; God:a who made all things for himfelf, looks- to the prefervation of all. It is accord- ingly laid of Chrift , All things were C0'..1.16,17. created by him andfor him, and by him all things confì/1. The creatures are all as veffels, which if unhooped by with- drawing of Gods manutenency, all the liquor that is in them their leveral vertues, yea their feveral Beings would run out, and they return to their fire$ nothing. Schoolmen. compare God to the fun, creatures to the air. The fun fines by its own nature, the air one- ly by participation of light from the- fun..
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