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¹2. To all Christians; that we climb up by the stairs of these inferior creatures, to contemplate the glorious power of the Creator. A good Christian, that like the Bee, works honey from every flower, suffers no action, demonstration, event, to slip by him without a question. All Objects to a meditating Solomon, are like wings to rear & mount up his thoughts to Heaven. As the old Romans, when they saw the blew stones, thought of Olympus; so let every Object, though low in it self, elevate our minds to Mount Zion. A mean scaffold may serve to raise up a goodly building. Courtiers weather-driven into a poore Cottage, (etiam, in caula, de Aula loquuntur) gather hence opportunity to praise the Court. We may no lesse (even ex hara, ²de ara dicendi ansam sumere) from our Tabernacles on earth be induced to praise our standing house in Heaven. So, as the Philosopher aimed at the pitch & stature of Hercules, by viewing the length of the print of his foot: We may by the base and dwarfish pleasures on our earth, guess at the high and noble joys in Heaven. How can we cast up our eyes to that they were made to behold, and not suffer our minds to transcend it; passing through the lower Heaven, which God made for Fowls, Vapours, Meteors, ⟨p. 219⟩to the Firmament wherein he fixed his Stars, and thence meditating of the Empyreal Heaven, which he created for himself, his Angels, his Saints: a place no less glorious above the visible, then the visible is above the earth. Read in every Star, and let the Moon be your Candle to do it, the provident disposition of God, the eternity of your afterlife.

¹2. To all Christians; that wee climbe vp by the staires of these inferiour creatures, to contemplate the glorious power of the Creatour. A good Christian, that like the Bee, workes honey from euery flower, suffers no action, demonstration, euent, to slip by him without a question. All Obiects to a meditating Solomon, are like wings to reare & mount vp his thoughts to Heauen. As the old Rom•nes, when they saw the blew stones, thought of Olympus; so let euery Obiect, though low in it selfe, eleuate our mindes to Mount Syon. A meane scaffold may serue to raise vp a goodly building. Courtiers weather-driuen into a poore Cottage, (etiam, in caula, de Aula loquuntur) gather hence opportunitie to praise the Court. Wee may no lesse (euen ex hara,