Christian religion

Heaven and earth, as it were the centre and circumference: for as the Arch-builders first shadow out in a plot the building they intend, and as the Painters draw certain gross lineaments of that picture which they will after set forth, and fill up with orient colours: so the Lord our God in this stately building and cunning painting of the frame of the world, hath before the most beautiful frame set out as it were a shadow and a common draught thereof.

Heauen and earth, as it were the center and circumference: for as the Arch-builders first shadow out in a plot the building they intend, and as the Painters draw certaine grosse lineaments of that picture which they will after set foorth, and fill vp with orient colours: so the Lord our God in this stately building and cunning painting of the frame of the world, hath before the most beautifull frame set out as it were a shadow and a common draught thereof.

Why is the rude mass called heaven and earth?

Why is the rude masse called heauen and earth?

By a trope of the matter whereof all the bodily creatures were made; it seemeth that the rudeness was in the earth only, containing the water and the dry land, because the Prophet saith that the earth ⟨p. 19⟩was void and without shape. It is true that Moses giveth this to the earth, rather then to the mass of the heavens, because the confusion and rudeness was greater there then in the mass of the heavens, because the water and dry land being mingled together, there was no form or figure of them.

By a trope of the matter whereof all the bodilie creatures were made; it seemeth that the rudenes was in the earth only, containing the water and the drie land, because the Prophet saith that the earth