And that upon the 9. of Saint _Marke, ver. 49. Every man shall be salted with Fire, and every Sacrifice shall be salted with Salt_. Wherein foure things come to be specified, Man, and Sacrifice, Fire, and Salt; which yet are reduced to two, comprehending under them, the other two; Man and Sacrifice, Fire and Salt; in respect of the conformitie they beare each to other. _In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth_; this said _Moses_ on the entrance upon _Genesis_. Whereupon the Jew _Aristobulus_, and some Ethniques willing to shew that _Pythagoras_ and _Plato_ had read _Moses_ bookes, and from thence drawne the greatest part of their most secret Philosophy, alledged that which _Moses_ should have said, that the heaven and the earth were first created; _Plato_ in his _Timæus_, after, _Timæus Locrien_ said that God first assembled Fire and Earth, to build an universe thereof; (we will shew it more sensibly of _Zohar_ in the Weik of a Candle lighted, for all consists of light, being the first of all Creatures.) These Philosophers presupposing that the World consisted (as indeed it doth) of the foure Elements, which are as well in heaven, and yet higher, as in the earth, and lower, but in a diverse manner. The two highest, Aire and Fire, being comprised under the name of Heaven and of the Æthereall Region: for the word ἄιθηρ, comes from the verbe ἄιθω to shine, and to enflame, the two proprieties of these Elements. And under the word Earth, the two lower, Earth and Water, incorporated into one Globe. But although _Moses_ set Heaven before Earth; (and observe here that in all _Genesis_ he toucheth at nothing but things sensible, but not of intelligible things; which is a point apart) for concerning this, there is no good agreement between Jewes and Christians; Saint _Chrysostome_ in his first _Homily_. Observe a little with what dignity the Divine Nature comes to shine in his manner of proceeding to the creation of things; For God contrary to Artists in building his Edifice, stretched out first the heavens round about, afterwards planted the earth below. Hee wrought first at the head, and afterwards came to the foundation. But it is the Hebrewes custome, that when they speake most of a thing, they ordinarily put the last in order, which they pretend to touch first: And the same is here practised, where Heaven is alledged before Earth, which he comes to discry immediately after.