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WHen God Almighty had in six dayes made that common-diall of the World the Light;* 1.1 that Storehouse of his Justice and his Mercy, the Firmament; that Ferry of the World, the Sea; Mans workhouse, the Earth; Charriots of Light, the Sun and Moon; the a••ry Choristers, the Fowles; and Mans s••rvants
the Beasts; yet had he one more excellent piece to be made, and that was Man, a Microcosm, even an Abstract of the whole, to whom having fashioned a body, proceeding by degrees of Perfection, he lastly created a Soul; And as the Family of Matri was singled out of the Tribe of Benjamin, and Saul out of the Family of Matri,* 1.2 being higher then the rest by the shoulders upwards. So is the Soul singled out from the other Creatures,* 1.3 far surpassing them all in Excellen∣cy, whether we consider the efficient cause of its Creation, Elohim the blessed Trinity being then in consultation; or the material cause a quinta essentia, noble and divine substance more excellent then the Heavens; or the cause For∣mall, made after the Image of God himself; or lastly the cause Finall, that it might be the Temple of God,* 1.4 and the habitation of his blessed spirit.
Joh. Donne Serm. at S. Pauls, Lond. 1627.
1 Sam. 10 20.
Pet. Gal. lib. 2. cap 8. ••en. 1. 21.
1 Cor. 6. 19.