And first, of God.

THE fool hath said in his heart, * there is no God. 'Tis the greatest folly and madness in the world to assert or give credit to it.

The wise man, whose eyes are in his head, cannot harbor such a motion in his heart.

I wholly banish such conceits from my minde; * and on the contrary assert,

That God is that pure and per∣fect being in whom we ail are, move and live; that secret blood, breath, & life, that silent∣ly courseth through the hidden veins and close arteries of the whole creation.

Every thing both visible and invisible is fraught with his pre∣sence, * & brim'd up w^th the plen∣tiful distils of a divine life: he is both all and in all, * he truly is, and there is nothing besides him Page  39that derives not power from him.

He hath but a weak eye, that sees not the sparkling beams of eternity, darting out their re∣fulgent beauty in and through variety.

What madman or fool will then deny a divine and eternal being.

Where can we go, * what can we do without him? heaven, hel, earth, sea, sun, moon, stars, al that you see, all that you possess, is sweetly replenished with the glory of this pure majesty: eve∣ry thing receives from him, and gives up to him.

More might be said but I hope this is sufficient to inform any reasonable man, that I wholly abjure this conceit, or rather deceit of the world.

Now to the next.