God's anger

1. The Rebels are thoughts. Man is an abridgement of the world, and is not exceeded by it, but in quantity, his pieces be not pauciora, sed minora. If all the veins of our bodies were extended to rivers, our sinews to mines, our muscles to mountains, our bones to quarries of stone, our eyes to the bigness of the Sun and Moon, and all other parts to the proportion of such things as correspond to them in the world; man might stride over the sea, as the Hebrews feigned of Adam; the air would be too little for him to move in, and the whole firmament but enough for this Star; yea indeed, this little world would be the great one, and that great world appear but the little one. There is nothing in the world for which we may not find some answerable part in man: but there is something in man for which we can find no answerable part in the world: I need not say Part; for the whole world is ⟨p. 45⟩not able to give any representation. Man hath a soul, made after the Image of God: of this the world can yield no resemblance. The world produceth innumerable creatures; man yet in more abundance. Our creatures are our thoughts, creatures that are borne Giants; that can reach from east to west, from earth to heaven. These can survey the whole earth, bestride the ocean, comprehend the vast air, and span the very firmament.

1. The Rebells are thoughts. Man is an abridgment of the world, and is not exceeded by it, but in quantity, his pieces be not pauciora, sed minora. If all the veins of our bodies were extended to rivers, our sinews to mines, our muscles to mountaines, our bones to quarries of stone, our eyes to the bignesse of the Sunne and Moon, and all other parts to the proportion of such things as correspond to them in the world; man might stride over the sea, as the Hebrews fained of Adam; the aire would bee too little for him to move in, and the whole firmament but enough for this Starre; yea indeed, this little world would be the great one, and that great world appear but the little one. There is nothing in the world for which we may not find some answerable part in man: but there is something in man for which we can find no answerable part in the world: I need not say Part; for the whole world is ⟨p. 45⟩not able to give any representation. Man hath a soul, made after the Image of God: of this the world can yeild no resemblance. The world produceth innumerable creatures; man yet in more abundance. Our creatures are our thoughts, creatures that are borne Gyants; that can reach from east to west, from earth to heaven. These can survey the whole earth, bestride the ocean, comprehend the vast air, and span the very firmament.