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to things orperfons, and alfo with them hath distributed cercain powers and offices out of his treafures : fo the Cha- racters and Names of Stars have not any power by reafon of their figure or pronunciation, but by reafon of the vertucor office which God luih ordained by nature cither to fuch a Name or Character. For there is no power either in heaven or in earth, or hell,which doth not defcend from God ; and without his permiffion, they can neither give or draw forth into any a£Hon, any thing they have.

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That is the chiefeft wifdom, which is from God ; and next, that which is in fpiritual creatures ; afterwards, in cor- poral creatures ; fourthly,in Nature^md natural things. The Spirits that are apoftate, and referved to the laft judgement, do follow thefe, after a long interval. Sixthly, the minirters of punifhments in heil,and the obedient unto God. Seventh- ly, the Pigmies do not poffefs the loweft place, and they who inhabit in elements, and elementary things. Ic is conve- nient therefore to know and difcem all differences of the wifdom of the Creator and the Creatures, that it may be certainly manifefl unto us, what we ought to aflumetoour ufe of every thing, and that we may know in truth how and in what maner that may be done. For truely every creature is ordained for fome profitable end to humane nature, and for the fervice thereof ; as the holy Scriptures, Reafon, and Experience, do teftific.

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God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things vifible and invifible -> in the holy Scriptures propofeth himfelf to have an eye over us ; and as a tender father which loveth his children, he teacheth us what is pro- fitable, and what not ; whac we are to avoid, and what we arc 10 embrace : then he allurech us to obedience with great

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