Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of…Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of…

Christ. Yea indeed Sir, I must confess I should.

Christ. Yea indeed Sir, I must confesse I should.

Ind. Why then I beseech you to consider, that in this great house of the world there are a great multitude of men and beasts, and other things exceeding wisely ordered, yea so ordered, as all the wisdom and power of man could never do it. As for example, If you do but consider the excellent subordination of the creatures, you shall see a wonderful order; if you do but cast your eyes downward, and behold the lowest creature, in the earth, you shall perceive that when it is wet with the dew of heaven, it nourisheth the grass, and the grass serveth to nourish the beasts, and the beasts they do nourish and feed man; whereby you may perceive the combination and connection that is amongst these creatures; and here you may see an order from one thing to another, and all to one end, all to serve man, and must you not then think and conclude, That man is to serve him who is the Author of this Order; and that is the very same whom we call God. And if you do but cast your eyes upward, you shall perceive such an heaven so beset and furnished with Sun, Moon, and Stars, as no man could make: And if you look into ⟨p. 12⟩the fabric of the world, you shall in your apprehension behold one thing contrary to another, the water contrary to the fire, and dryness contrary to moisture; and the nature of contraries, is one to destroy another; and yet you may see these brought to such a comely agreement, that they do not intrench or usurp one upon another, but match together in the composing of many things. The Earth you know is heavy and massive, and very huge in bigness, and there is no solid thing to uphold it, nor pillar to support it, for it is founded upon the waters; and yet notwithstanding it is settled, or rather hung as a Ball in the Air, and stirreth not a whit. The Sea likewise doth continually threaten the Earth, and the nature thereof is to overflow the same, and yet we see it passeth not its bounds; now all these things considered, must it not needs follow that there is a great and sovereign power which over-ruleth all these things, who maketh them thus to keep their order; and who can that be, but only the God of Order? Thus my loving friend, you see that the whole world, with all that is therein, is a plain book laid open to all men, yea even for Children to read, and as it were to spell