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1. AND I ouer-heard, O Lord my God, and I licked vp a drop of sweete∣nesse out of thy truth: and I vnderstood, that certaine a 1.1 men there bee, who mislike of thy good workes: and who say, that thou madest many of them, meerely com∣pelled by necessity; instan∣cing in the Fabricke of the heauens, and in the ordering of the Starres: and that thou
neuer madest them of thy selfe, but that they were o∣therwhere ready created to thy hand; which thou onely drewest together, and ioy∣nedst one to another, and fra∣medst vp, at such time as against thine enemyes now newly ouercome, thou ray∣sedst vp the Walls of the world; that by this building they being vtterly now de∣feated, might neuer againe be able to rebell against thee. As for other things (they say) thou neuer at all madest them, nor euer so much as ioynedst them together: in∣stancing in all kinds of flesh, and in all sorts of these, smal∣ler creatures, and whatso∣euer thing hath its roote in the earth: but that a certaine minde at enmity with thee, and another nature which thou createdst not, and which was contrary vn••o
thee; did, in these lower sta∣ges of the world, beget and fiame these things. Mad men are they to affirme thus: be∣cause they looke not vpon thy workes by the Spirit; neyther doe they know thee in them.
The Ma∣nichees.