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A Man is of all other creatures néerest in likenesse vnto God,* 1.1 milde after kinde by the lawe of reason, receiuing doctrine and skill, hauing the Image of God by the might of knowledge, and the likenesse in power of louing. Farther to the intent the properties of men shuld be the more openly known to vnlearned mē & simple, of his parties, of yt which he is made & cōposed, we shal shortly begin to intreat: and first of ye worthier kind, yt
is the soule, by the which man agrieth with Angells. For by the soule man is lift vp to heauenlye thinges, aboue the kinde of bodie. For as Isidore sayth, by a misse vse, Homo, a man, hath ye name of Homo, the earth: sith that he is not made only of body, but composed of body & of soule. And therefore a man is called Antropos in Gréeke:* 1.2 By Antropos is vnderstoode vprightlye formed. For the spirit is lifted vp by gouernaunce, to the contemplation of God his maker: wher∣fore the Poet saith.
Prona{que} cum spectant animalia eçtera terrā, Os homini sublime dedit coelumquè videre. Iussit & erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.
The meaning is thus, other beasts looke downeward to the earth. And God gaue to man an high mouth, and com∣maunded him to looke vp and beholde heauen: & he gaue to men visages looking vpwarde towarde the starres. And also a man shoulde séeke heauen, and not put his thought in the earth, and be obedient to the wombe as a beast. Isidore speak∣eth of a double manner man,* 1.3 of the in∣ner man, and vtter man. And first wee shall treate and procéede of the in∣ner man.
Isidorus.
Antropos. of Ants. & Tro∣peo: Homo conuersus. A man grovving vvith his head or roote vp∣vvard.
That is, to voide excesse.