Of Gods vniuersall prouidence, ruling all, and comprising all. CHAP. 11.
WHerefore the great and mighty GOD with his Word and his holy Spirit (which three are one) God only omnipotent, maker and Creator of euery soul•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of euery body, in participation of whom, all such are happy that follow his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and reiect vanities: he that made man a reasonable creature of soule and body •…•…d he that did neither let him passe vnpunished for his sin, nor yet excluded him •…•…om mercy: he that gaue both vnto good and bad essence with the stones, power of production with the trees, senses with the beasts of the field, a•…•…d vnder∣standing with the Angels; he, from whome is all being, beauty, forme and order, number, weight and measure; he, from whom al nature, meane & excellent, al seeds of forme, all formes of seed, all motion, both of formes and seedes deriue and haue being▪ He that gaue flesh the originall, beauty, strength, propagation, forme and shape, health and symmetry: He that gaue the vnreasonable soule, sence, memory and appetite, the reasonable besides these, phantasie, vnderstanding and will: He (I say) hauing left neither heauen, nor earth, nor Angel, nor man, no nor the most base and contemptible creature, neither the birds feather, nor the hearbes flower, nor the trees leafe, without the true harmony of their parts, and peacefull con∣cord of composition; It is no way credible, that he would leaue the kingdomes of men, and their bondages and freedomes loose and vncomprized in the lawes of his eternall prouidence.