The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.

SECT. II. [§. 2] The earthly man is the vanity of vanities, and the vexation of spirit.

ANd all this comes from man, which is a bundle of vanity, yea less then nothing, vanity and vexation of spirit; The vainest thing that is, saith the Prophet, is man, that is, the natural man, the earthly man, the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart are evil, and that continually; from his evil heart proceeds all evil; for unto the defiled and unclean there is nothing pure or clean, hut all he touches, tastes or handles, is defiled, till he be cleansed within, being like the lepers that infected all about them, houses and walls; So here, O vain man, the worst of all things, in whom dwells no goodness; nay, he makes all other things vain: but it is not so in the Kingdom of God, nor in the World to come, by Christ there∣in; every soul, that tasted and receiv∣ed

of the Father, sees nothing but excellency and everlasting comfort; there is no vanity, nor vexation of spi∣tit: there is nothing but holiness to the Lord; there is durable riches, and eternal mansions, and no alteration or shadow of changing; for all things are there of God, &c.