_In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth, and the Earth was without Forme and void_; Saint _Matthew_ useth the same, upon the entrance to his Gospell, _The Booke of the Generation of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham, Abraham begat Isaac, &c._ For it is well knowne, that _Abraham_ was a long time before _David_: Otherwise it seemes, that _Moses_ would particularly demonstrate, that the Earth was made before the Heaven, by the Creation of man, that is, the Image and pourtrait of the great World, for that in the second of _Genesis_, _God formed man of the slime of the earth_, (that is to say,) his body which it represents; _and afterwards breathed in his face the spirit, or breath of life_: that carrieth him backe to heaven; whereunto suits that which is written in the 1 to the _Cor._ 15. _The first man from the earth is earthly, and the second man from heaven is heavenly: the first man Adam was made a living soule; and the last Adam, a quickning spirit._ Whereto the Generation of the Creature relates, who six weeks after the Conception, is nothing but a masse of informed flesh, till the soule that is infused from above, doth vivifie it. Moreover the foure Elements (whereof all is made) consists of foure qualities, Hot and Drie, Cold and Moist; two of them are bound up in each of them: _Earth_, that is to say, Cold and Dry, the _Water_, Cold and Moist; the _Aire_, Moist and Hot; the _Fire_, Hot and Dry: whence it comes to joine with the earth; for the Elements are circular, as _Hermes_ would have it; each being engirded with two others, with whom it agreeth in one of their qualities; which is thereunto appropriate: as Earth betwixt Fire and Water, participates with the Fire in drynesse, and with Water in coldnesse; and so of the rest. Man then which is the Image of the great World, and therefrom is called the Microcosme, or little World, as the World which is made after the resemblance of his Archetype, is called the great man; being composed of foure Elements, shall have also its heaven and its earth: The soule, and understanding, are its heaven, the body and sensuality, its earth: So that to know the heaven and earth of man, is to have true and entire knowledge of all the Universe, and of the Nature of things. [Sidenote: Act. 17. 28.]