That the Creator hath deserued praise in euery forme and kinde of nature. CHAP. 5.
WHerefore all natures are good, because they haue their forme, kinde, and a certaine rest withall in them-selues. And when they are in their true posture of nature, they preserue the essence in the full manner as they receiued it: and that, whose essence is not eternall, followeth the lawes of the creator that sway∣eth it, and changeth into better, or worse, tending (by Gods disposition) still to that end which the order of the vniuerse requireth: so that that corruption which bringeth all natures mortall vnto dissolution, cannot so dissolue that which was, but it may become that afterwards which it was before, or that which it should be: which being so, then God, the highest being, who made all things that are not him-selfe, (no creature being fitte for that equalitie, being made of •…•…othing) and consequently being not able to haue beene, but by him) is not to be discommended through the taking offence at some faults, but to bee honored vpon the due consideration of the perfection of all natures.
L. VIVES.
A (a) certaine] Euery thing keeping harmonious agreement both with it selfe and others, without corrupting discorde: which made some ancient writers affirme, that the world 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vpon loue: