6 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [1.3. 
brought before him, according unto their proprieties, which 
gave the occasion to the fall: but it was the proud know- 
ledge of good and evil, with an intent in man to give law 
unto himself, and to depend no more upon God’s com- 
mandments, which was the form of the temptation. 
Neither is it any quantity of knowledge, how great soever, 
that can make the mind of man to swell; for nothing can 
fill, much less extend the soul of man, but God and the 
contemplation of God; and therefore Salomon, speaking 
of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the 
| ear, affirmeth that she eye zs never satisfied with seeing, 
nor the ear with hearing ; and if there be no fulness, then 
is the continent greater than the content: so of knowledge 
itself, and the mind of man, whereto the senses are but 
reporters, he defineth likewise in these words, placed after 
that Kalendar or Ephemerides which he maketh of the 
diversities of times and seasons for all actions and pur- 
poses; and concludeth thus: God hath made all things 
beautiful, or decent, in the true return of their seasons: Also 
he hath placed the world in man’s heart, yet cannot man find 
oul the work which God worketh from the beginning to the 
end: declaring not obscurely, that God hath framed the 
mind of man as a mirror or glass, capable of the image of 
the universal world, and joyful to receive the impression 
thereof, as the eye joyeth to receive light; and not only 
delighted in beholding the variety of things and vicissitude 
of times, but raised also to find out and discern the ordin- 
ances and decrees, which throughout all those changes 
are infallibly observed. And although he doth insinuate 
that the supreme or summary law of nature, which he 
calleth Zhe work which God worketh from the beginning to 
the end, is not possible to be found out by man; yet that — 
doth not derogate from the capacity of the mind, but may ae ) 
