A69075:264
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Not to be carking for the things of this life: nor to surfeit with the cares thereof, seeing God provided for the necessity and comfort of the beasts ere he would bring them into the world.
Not to be carking for the things of this life: nor to surfet with the cares thereof, seeing God prouided for the necessitie and comfort of the beasts ere hee would bring them into the world.
What is general in all the earthly creatures?
What is generall in all the earthly creatures?
That God proceedeth from the things that be more imperfect to those that are perfecter, until he come to the perfectest, as from the trees, corn, herbs, &c. which have but one life, that is, whereby they increase and are vegetative, unto the beasts which have both an increasing, and feeling or sensitive life, as fishes, fowls, beasts, &c. and from them to man, which hath besides both them a reasonable soul.
That God proceedeth from the things that be more imperfect to those that are perfecter, vntill hee come to the perfectest, as from the trees, corne, herbs, &c. which haue but one life, that is, whereby they increase and are vegetatiue, vnto the beasts which haue both an increasing, and feeling or sensitiue life, as fishes, fowles, beasts, &c. and from them to man, which hath besides both them a reasonable soule.