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…

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 ⟨p. 431⟩one of those ends; either to the perfection of Men, such are all those, which inform the Understanding, and govern the life: or to his Conservation, as those directed to the furthering of his welfare, and repairing the decays, or sheltering the weaknesses of Nature: or lastly to his Ornament, such as are those Elegancies of Art, and Curiosities of Invention, which, though not necessary to his Being, yet are special instruments of his delight, either Sensitive or Intellectual.

Concerning the Attribute of Power, most certaine it is that those great parts of Gods workmanship, Creation, and Redemption, are incommunicably belonging unto him as his owne Prerogative Royall. 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 Analogie 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 formes and intrinsecall 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 naturall instinct, which is Intrinsecally belonging to their condition, without any manner of Art or variety.) The Resemblances of Nature in the Works of Art are chiefly seene in these two Proportions: First, as Nature doth nothing in Vaine, but in all her Works aymes 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