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create ; but received a revocation, in part, by the 

 curse ; since which time they change not. 



That notwithstanding God hath rested and 

 ceased from creating since the first sabbath, yet, ne 

 vertheless, he doth accomplish and fulfil his divine 

 will in all things, great and small, singular and 

 general, as fully and exactly by providence, as he 

 could by miracle and new creation, though his 

 working be not immediate and direct, but by com 

 pass ; not violating nature, which is his own law, 

 upon the creature. 



That at the first, the soul of man was not pro 

 duced by heaven or earth, but was breathed imme 

 diately from God : so that the ways and proceedings 

 of God with spirits are not included in nature ; that 

 is, in the laws of heaven and earth; but are reserved 

 to the law of his secret will and grace : wherein 

 God worketh still, and resteth not from the work of 

 redemption, as he resteth from the work of creation : 

 but continueth working till the end of the world ; 

 what time that work also shall be accomplished, and 

 an eternal sabbath shall ensue. Likewise, that 

 whensoever God doth transcend the law of nature 

 by miracles, which may ever seem as new crea 

 tions, he never cometh to that point or pass, but 

 in regard of the work of redemption, which is the 

 greater, and whereto all God s signs and miracles do 

 refer. 



That God created man in his own image, in a 

 reasonable soul, in innocency, in free-will, and in 



