〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…nce that made them. Therefore in him their knowledge is day, in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (as we sayd) twy-light. But the knowledges of a thing, by the means 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and the thing it selfe made, are farre different. (c) The vnderstanding 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a figure doth produce a perfecter knowledge of it, then the draught 〈◊〉〈◊〉) dust: and iustice is one in the changelesse truth, and another in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…oule. And so of the rest, as the firmament betweene the waters aboue 〈◊〉〈◊〉, called heauen, the gathering of the waters, the apparance of land, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…f plants, creation of foules and fishes, of the water, and foure foo•…•…ed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…he earth, and last, of man the most excelling creature of all. All these the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…scerned in the Word of God, where they had their causes of their pro∣•…•… •…•…mmoueable and fixed, otherwise, then in them selues: clearer in him, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in them-selues: yet referring all those workes to the Creators praise, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ke morning in the mindes of these contemplators.
L. VIVES.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 (a) plainer] They haue both sharper wittes then we, and the light whereby they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…he •…•…rinity is farre brighter then that by which wee know our selues. (b) The crea∣•…•… •…•…owing the effect better in the cause, then in it selfe, (c) The vnderstanding] Mathe∣•…•… •…•…ciples giue better knowledge of times and figures, then draughts, which can ne∣•…•… •…•…ct as to present the thing to the eye, truly, as it is: and better conceiue wee by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a straight line is the shortest draught from point to point, and that all lines drawne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ter to the cyrcle are equall, by the precepts of Geometry, rather then by all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…f dust? nay) of Parrhasius or Apelles. (d) Dust] The old Mathematicians drew •…•…tions in dust, wi•…•…h a compasse, the better to put out or in what they would. This 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was a dooing when Syracusa was taken. Liu. Tully calleth it, learned dust. De nat. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 secto in puluere metas, saith Persius, Lines in diuided dust. Satyr. 1.