From the knowledge of the sensible World, we come to that of the Creator, and the Intelligible world; by the Creature, the Creator is understood, saith Saint _Augustine_. Fire then gives motion to the body, Aire feeling, Water nourishment, and Earth subsistence. Moreover heaven designes the intelligible world, the earth the sensible: Each of them is subdivided into two, (in every case I speake not but after _Zohar_ and the ancient _Rabbins_.) The intelligible into Paradise and Hell; and the sensible, to the Celestiall and Elementary world: Upon this passage _Origen_ makes a faire discourse at the entry on _Genesis_, that God first made the heaven or the intelligible world, following that which is spoken in the 66. of _Esay_, _Heaven is my seat and Earth my footstoole_; Or rather it is God in whom the world dwelleth, and not the world which is Gods habitation: For in him _we live, move, and have our beeing_; for the true seat and habitation of God, is his proper essence: and before the Creation of the World, as _Rabbi Eliezer_ sets downe, in his Chapters, there was nothing but the essence of God, and his name, which are but one thing: Then after the heaven, or the intelligible world, _Origen_ pursues, _God made the Firmament_, that is to say, this sensible world; for every body hath I know not what firmnesse and solidity, and all solidity is corporal; and as that which God proposed to make, consisteth of Body and of Spirit, for this cause it is written, that God first made the Heaven, that is to say, all spirituall substance, upon which, as upon a certaine throne, hee reposeth himselfe. The Firmament for our regard is the body, which _Zohar_ calleth the Temple, and the Apostle also, _Yee are Gods Temple_, 1 Cor. 3. 17. And the Heaven, which is spirituall, is our soule, and the inner man; the Firmament is the externall, that neither seeth, nor knoweth God but sensibly. So that man is double, an animall, and spirituall body, the one Internall, Spirituall, Invisible; that which Saint _Marke_ in this place designeth for man; the other Externall, Corporall, Animal, which he denotes by the Sacrifice which comprehendeth not the things that are of the Spirit of God, but the Spirituall discerneth all; So that the exteriour man is an animal compared to brute beasts, whereout they tooke their offerings for Sacrifices: He is compared to foolish Beasts, and is made like them; for a man hath no more then a Beast: we must understand the Carnall, and Animall, that consists of this visible body, that dyeth as well as Beasts, are corrupt and returne to Earth: Whence _Plato_ said very well, that which is seene of man, is not man properly. And the first of _Alcibiades_, yet more distinctly, that Man is I know not what else, then his body, namely his soule, as it followes afterwards. That which _Cicero_ borrowed out of _Scipio’s_ dreame; But understand it thus, that thou art not mortall, but this body; thou art not that, which this