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 that with judgment doth contract the vat body of Divinity into an Abridgment, doth imitate God, who having the firt day diffued the light through the whole Hemiphere, contracted it, and as it were epitomized the fourth day within the body of the Sun: Be that will condemn Epitomies, condemn himelf for man is the epitomie of the World, But I mut avoid prolixity in commending this Epitomie, left my practie thwart my words. My Lord, This Book is the Epitome of Divinity; and this Epitle, the Epitomie of my true affection, and many thanks I owe you and yours: on whom I wih the influence of all happinee, which is the hearty deire of