'5"0 [ajes of Conjcience. 1.- Booke (oJne fubGance eternal! and almightie, that. A wifedomr, prouidencc, and power,thar creaframed mu goodlyCrwure theWorld, bered all thefe to fuch cndcs, and barb power .iiclc.sir[elfe. to bring them thereunto: and who is thiS but . If.a man comes into alarge forrefl, and God/ . beholds therein goodly faire buildings,and II. Thefecondfortofargumentsdrawne Argumeots fundric krndes of hearbes, and trees, and from thellght of natur~, ~retakenfrom the fromrhe birds, and bcafles, and no roan: hec will preferuation and gouernernenrof the world gouc:rnC'"' memofdlc prcfently reafon thm with himfclfc : thefe created ; and thefearc touched by the Holy wo.dd. bmldings arc the workman!hip offomc mao, Gholl, whenheefaith,ACles 14. 17. That they were not from all ererniric, they did God left nut-himfc!f' withoHt witneff~, in that in not rcarcthcmfelucs,ncitherdid the hearbs, hi& prouidcnceheedid good,and gaueraine (rom i the trees, the birds, orrhe bea£lcs build hcauen,andfruitfuOfeafonJ,fillingour heArtswith I" them: brit of neceflitie rheymu£1 haue fome io7andg/a(4'n~Jfe. 6r11founder, which is man. In like manner, The particulars drawne from thegoucrnwhen wee confider rhis world, fo goodly a menr ofrhe world,are rhcfc: creature to bebolde, though wee fee notthe B Fir£1, OJJr foode whereby wee are noumaker thereof, yet wee cannot fay, that clri!hed, is in it felfe, a dead foocle, voide of rher it made it felfe. or that the things there· hfe: and ycrit Cerueth to maintaineand prein contained made ir,bur that the Creatorof fcruc life: whereas in rea(on, tt 1s more ticte it, was fame \incrcatcd fubflance, moll wafe, to choke and flutfcourbodics,thento fcede mofl cunning, and cuerla(!ing, and that is them. God. Secondly , our garments which wee ._Secondly, from this frame of tlieworld, wcarc, arc in rhemfeJuos coldc, and voide and the confideration thereof,I reafon thus: of heace,•and yet they haue this vfc to preIn the world there are fourc fotts and kindes. ferue hearc, and to fu£lainc life in the exof creatures. The fir£1, bare and naked fubrremille of colde. Therefore there rnufl !lances, that hauc neitherlife, fe.nfe, nor reanecdes bee an omnipotent and dmine pewfan in them: as the Sunne, theMoonc, and er, that giueth vnro them both fucba verthe Srarrcs. The fecond, that haue fubcue, to fecdc and preferuc rhe life and health flance and Hfc, but no fenfe nor rea(on.: as ofman. ~· ; plants, rrces, and hearbes. ·Thethird,that c Thirdly, therainefalling, and the Sunne h.aue no reafon, but both fub£lance, life, !hining opon one and the Came plotte of fenfc, and power to mooue themfelues: as ground, cauferh it to bring forth in his fea· th.e.beaJics of the land, and fi!hcs of the Con a hundr.ed fcuerall kindes of bearbes fea. The fourth arc fuch asliaue all, nameand plants, whereby eucry one bath a feuely, fubftance, hfe~ fenfe , and rcafon : as rail, and drGinCl flower, colour, forme,and men, faueur: Whcnce commeth this/ Not from Now.thefe foure forts of creatures excel! the raine,for it hath nolife in it felfe, and beoneanother jn properties. and degrees. For tides it is in it (e!fe a! one:not fromthe Sunoc, th> fir!! of them which are mcere fub!lanorrhe earth : fortbefe alfo in their kindcare ces, doefcruc thofcrhat haue life,asrhe trees all one,hauing in themno fuch po.-er whereand theplants. The-trees and the plantsferue by they !hould bee the authors of life;there, the-creatures that haucfenfeand life, a!!he fore the differences ofplants in one ground, beatlcsand the fiil1es. The bea!les and the mayconuinceour iudgements, and teach vs fi!hcs ferue man, that hath fubllance; life, rhus much ;that ther.c is a diuineand heauenfenfe, and rcafon , And amonge£1 them a.!I ly power aboueand befidothe power.ofthefe wee fee, that rhofe "hich baue more giftes creatures. are ferucd of thofe which hauc lc!fe, as the D Fourthly, take an example of the bird Sunne and Moone ferue rhe plants,rbe plants and the egge. The bird bringerh forth the aJJd llcarbs ferue the beaGes, and the bea£les egge: the egge againe bringetb forrh the feN~ man, andlhatcreature that bath mo£1 bird. This egge conGdcred in it felf•,harh grfts is ferued of alL Man therefore excelin it neither Jrfo nor foule, •and the ·bJtd ling all thefe muG haucfomcthingto honour can giue it' neither; for all that the bird and fcrue, which mufl bee more excellent can doe, is to giue.it bearc, and no more, then the other creatures, yeathen ilimfdfe, Within the !hell of this cgge, ts m<de a and .that is a fubClance vncreate, moll hogoodly creature:, which, when it commeth ly, mofi wife, eternall, infinite, and this is to fome perfection, it brcakerh the lhell. God, In the n,ell broken, wee thall fee the nibbr, . Thirdly, all particular creatures whetlm the iwing, the Iegge, and all the parrs and mheaucn or in earth,arc rcferr.cd to their cer. mcmben of a bird. Now let this beecontltaioe particular and peculiar endes, wherein dered, that the egge brought norlorth this ClJery one of them, cuenthe bafdl :md mea~ goodly creatore, nor yerrhe hcnnc, Forthe ' ndl, is imploycd, and which r.hey doe all aceggc had no fuch power or ver<ue in it felfe 1 ' compliil1 in their kindc. And this is a plaine and the henne gaue but her hcate; neither proofe , that' there is one that cxcellcth in didman doe it : for rthat which was done, was -
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