Chap.5. according to St M A T T H E vv. 161 him,none befides him. A Philofapher could fay, There is nothing Nan/in terra great inearth,befrdes man. And anOra tour, The greateft thing in s præter the leafs room,is á good foul in a mans body. Man, faith the Poet, hominem.Eavo. is the matter ecce of the wifeft Workmen he is, faith the Hifto- rinua. P Mi2csor cr spa. rim, the faireftpeeceof the chiefeft Archite&, the very miracle of y; , & Icon. daring nature, faithTrifinegifl. Galen, a profane Phyfìcian,after zoPis 7-bcrova he had dcfcribed the nature and parts of mans body, was forced to KxAev7ÿtx4N- ling a hymne to that God that heknew not. And Se .Augutine TXVN E""P. complaineth, that men can admire the height of the hills, the huge-. war? nes ofthe waves,checompaifeof the ocean,and the circumvolution xqy , xeito of the ftarrs, and yet not once marke nor admire the powerand phon. goodntíhe ofGod, fhining in their own fouls and bodies, as in a TcAP^e reins rnirrour. Fe,,rfliíly and wonderfully am I made, faith David, yea 'I! pv?ws a- t t and chriotfly wrought i,s the low =fl' party of the earth that is, ,nand. in my mothersWomb, Pfàl. 1 39, 1 3,r 4.1 . A councei was called Gal. lib.;. de in Heaven whenman was tobe formed, Let ue make man, Gen. r. u/uparru,a. 26. And were not the birth of a chrlde fo common, ilaould it fall Euet boy ,,firer out but once in an age, people would run together to fee it, as to a rsirari 'It! ?2°ntiurlr, ia_ miracle. Pliny wondereth at the Gnat,fo finall a crea :ure,yet ma. ,enrer flue(' king fo great a buzz ng : and fo alfaatthe Buzrerfke. He alto ma- maria, oeer,ni kerb mention of one, that fpent 58 years in fearching out thena- arbitumi, turn of the Bee, andcouldnot in all that fpace attain to the full of gyres iylerum, it. What a flume is it forus, not to fee God in every creature in ei retina our felves efpecially, and every, the leapt part ofus? There is not a raj uo";,-;'at._ hair uponour heads white or black, but hath God for the maker, Lib. s,cap.9. and God for the Mailer coo. Let thole that pride themfelves in Abtoton Marre their hair, think what a heavy account fíb(èlom made to God for fùrenr, peitiris that fin. Long hair in women is a token of modefty. But'modei±y Pueñne`hi,s grows íhort in naen,as their hair grows long,taith one. And Seni- M<crorci c,z (peakingof the curled and craned youths of his time, telleth us, i,empub. cur: that they had more care of their locks then of their limmes, and bari mafunt had rather the common-wealth fhould be dillurbed, then their qu'1co.narn. au;cära coma frizzled trefles difheveled. Pompey was taxed for this neat nicety, t,2 p,,,chro di Vnico digitulo caput fcalpit. And of H-lén, toocurious of her gelid, o,din- .e hair at her mothers funerali, the Poet bringeth in one that faith, jroedes, t571, i nvìm 'ern, This isold Helen frill; no changeling in all this sedjruc1aseut- fpace. The holy women of old, datanot adorn themfelves with 70s bee coma plaitedorbroided hair, as St Peter teftifieth, but miffed in God, Faicéragerit. anddecked themfelves with a meek and quiet fpirit. And doth not De copre;. Al. 9 Q ciat, zn Em1'1è. natureit felt teach us, faith St Paul, that it is a fhame to a man,to a í'er.;, i,-4 S, M wear
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