Preston - BT100 P8 1634

~rhat Goo u. l ~s ~~onwheeles : wherein you may obferve thefe thmgs :· 1 That all things ·here below are exceeding Qlf: . . , - d h c. d h l , o.e1vatwns mutable; an t ererore compare to w,.ee.es, fram rhe becaufethey are t-urned aboutas eafie as awheel, ' wheeles in . · fo that a [nan may wonder at their variety and E~.e~ . x. · turning. _ . z But yet, thefe wheeles have eyes in them, that is)thoughwe fee not the reafon ofthings in them·, yet they ·have eyes in them, they have , foinething to be difcerned;tbe fpeech is a meta– phor,and a metonymie too,(hewing that there is fomthirig in their events,that they may ibew the reafon of their turning, if wee could difcerne it, but it is oft hidden fromus. . . 3 And rhefe wheeln are flirred, but M the heafts flirre them; that is, there is nothing done herebelow,but isbrought topa!feby the infiru– ments ofGod, namely, the Angels. ·4 And thefe bea!h, firft, have faces likemen, 'l'heAngels that is,the wifdome ofmen;and fecondly on the ufed asinfl:ru· h fi n. t.nents inguiOt er 1de, aface like aLion, for their urength; dingthecourfe thirdly, there is fervice, and Iaborioufne!fe in ofthings. tbem,as in O.'X:en; fourthly, there is fwifrneffe in them, as inEagles; and this is meantofthe An. gels, that order and guide the courfe ofthings, andcha~ge them, as we fee continually. , 5 Againe, as thefewheeles move not, but as . they are guidedby them, fo both move by th: Sptrit; that is, what Godcommands them, they I I execute; they goe,when'he would have them go, . I and fiand fti11 1 whenhewollldhave them. D z · .6'Againe, · ' \

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