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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 

 to ^spirits ; we find, as far as credit is to be given to the 

 celestTaTtrterarchy 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 creaeclwas~ fight, 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 

 as that man was placed in the garden to work therein; 

 which work, so appointed to him, could be no other 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 



