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of a manufacture, and the other of a law, decree, or 
counsel. 
3. To proceed to that which is next in order from God 
Des spirits; we find, as far as credit is to be given to the 
“ celestial hierarchy of that supposed Dionysius the senator 
of Athens, the first place or degree'is given to the angels 
of love,-which are termed seraphim; the second to the 
angels of light, which are termed cherubim; and the 
third, and so following places, to thrones, principalities, 
and the rest, which are all angels of power and ministry; 
so as the angels of knowledge and illumination are placed 
before the angels of office and domination. 
4. To descend from spirits and intellectual forms to 
_sensible and material forms, we read the first form that 
was created was light, which hath a relation and cor- 
respondence in nature and corporal things to knowledge 
in spirits and incorporal things. 
5. So in the distribution of days we see the day 
wherein God did rest and contemplate his own works, 
was blessed above all the days wherein he did effect and 
accomplish them. 
6. After the creation was finished, it is set down unto 
us that man was placed in the garden to work therein; 
which work, so appointed to him, could be no ofher than 
work of contemplation ; that is, when the end of work is 
but’ for exercise and experiment, not for necessity; for 
there being then’ no reluctation of the creature, nor sweat 
of the brow, man’s employment must of consequence 
have been matter of delight in the experiment, and not 
matter of labour for the use. Again, the first acts which 
man performed in Paradise consisted of the two summary + 
parts: of knowledge; the view of creatures, and the im-~* 
position of names. As for the knowledge which induced ” 
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