AND again, when we consider the _Animals_, the _Faculties_ and _Propension_ of their respective _Natures_, how they are endued with peculiar _Sense_, because denied particular _Reason_; and how wisely they are all dispos’d, some inhabiting the _Waters_, some enjoying the free _Air_, and others possessing the _Desarts_; some _reptile_ and creeping, some _gradient_ and walking, some _solivagant_ and wandering, some _wild_ and fierce, and others innocent and _tame_: I say the marvellous and inimitable _Artifice_ of _Nature_ in these, and all other _natural Works_, is not only to be admir’d; but also the _Majesty_, _Glory_, _Fullness_, and _Magnificence_ of the Great CREATOR and Institutor of this Nature is to be most highly ador’d; in whom all things originally _center_, as their common _Source_ and Divine _Fountain_, and to whom all things are finally _reduced_, as the Primigenious _Essence_ and _Archetype_ of NATURE. [Illustration] CHAP. III. _Of MAN._ MAN, to whom all _sublunary Beings_ were subjected, is most excellently qualified, far above all other _Creatures_ of this World: In him is not only the vegetative Life of _Plants_, and the sensitive Life of _Animals_, but also the _Angelical Reason_, the Divine _Understanding_, the true _Conjunction_ and glorious _Possession_ of all Things: He is not only endued with _Reason_ and the _Gift of Speaking_, but also with a _Mind_ and a SOUL, which participates of a _Celestial Nature_ and _Divinity_ itself; which can relate to the Nature of nothing else, and be compared to none but GOD himself: In and thro’ _whom_ he has a _Similitude_ with all things, an _Operation_ with all, and _Conversation_ with all: He symbolizeth with all Matters in proper _Subjects_; with the _Elements_ in a fourfold Body; with _Plants_ in a vegetative Virtue; with _Animals_ in a sensitive Faculty; with the _Heavens_ in an Etherial Spirit; with _Angels_ in Wisdom and Understanding, and with GOD himself (as it were) in containing and comprehending all things, except the Divine Being. Hence nothing can so expresly represent GOD as the _Soul_ of Man, by which he is dignified and railed to the very _Image_ and _Similitude_ of himself. And in _MAN_ the mirificent _Wisdom_ shines the more conspicuously; in that the whole _World_, and the _Fabrick_ of all its Contents, however concise and artificial, can in no respect compare with the noble Structure of this _Microcosm_, MAN. It is so marvellously concise, and so wonderfully artificial, that it seems no otherways, than as if the MAKER (designing _this_ for his _Master-piece_) would have his chief Glory, Esteem, and Reputation to depend upon it, and derive itself from _Hence_; or, as if the _Maker_ (designing this for one signal Instance of his _Divinity_ to Men) would have us brought, merely by the Understanding and Knowledge of ourselves, to the true _Knowledge_ and due _Reverence_ of HIMSELF, our