A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

The other Properties or Attributes of God, of which Mans Soul beareth an Image & dark resemblance, are those, which according to our Apprehension seem not so Intrinsical and Essential as the former. And they are such as may be either generally collected from the Manifestation of his Works, or more particularly from his Word. These, which refer unto his Works, are his Power in Making and Ruling them; his Wisdom in Ordering ⟨p. 430⟩and Preserving them; his Knowledge in the Contemplation of them: and of these it pleaseth him at the first to bestow some few degrees upon mans Soul.

THe other Properties or Attributes of God, of which Mans Soule beareth an Image & dark resemblance, are those, which according to our Apprehension seeme not so Intrinsecall and Essentiall as the former. And they are such as may be either generally collected from the Manifestation of his Works, or more particularly from his Word. These, which referre unto his Works, are his Power in Making and Ruling them; his Wisedom in Ordering ⟨p. 430⟩and Preserving them; his Knowledge in the Contemplation of them: and of these it pleaseth him at the first to bestow some few degrees upon mans Soule.

Concerning the Attribute of Power, most certain it is that those great parts of Gods workmanship, Creation, and Redemption, are incommunicably belonging unto him as his own Prerogative Royal. Insomuch that it were desperate blasphemy to assume unto our selves the least resemblance of them. Yet in many other proceedings of Gods works, there is some Analogy and Resemblance in the Works of Men. For first, what are all the motions and courses of Nature, but the Ordinary works of God? All forms and intrinsical Motive Principles are indeed but his Instruments; for by him we live, and move, and have our being. And of all other works, mans only imitate Nature: as Aristotle observes of the Works of Art, which peculiarly belong unto Man (all other Creatures being carried by that natural instinct, which is Intrinsically belonging to their condition, without any manner of Art or variety.) The Resemblances of Nature in the Works of Art are chiefly seen in these two Proportions: First, as Nature doth nothing in Vain, but in all her Works aims at some End, the Perfection, or the Ornament, or the Conservation of the Universe (for those are the three ends of Nature subordinate to the Maine, which is, the Glory of the Maker) so likewise are the works of Art all directed by the Understanding to some