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the ■ did I consider these things , and they all re ere m es made through me alone,and through none other,
By me alsoshall they be ended and by none other. That Meditation, fbrcrunns every Solemne Workj is a thing so well known to man, that he needs no further Demonstration of it then his own Practice : That there is also in God something AnalogicalI to it, from whence Man derived this Customary Notion of his; As it is most agreeable to Reason, so withal! is it very so table to Providence. Dn (faith I amblichus)
( concipiunt in fe totum opus antequam parturient. And the Spirit here to Esdras. 1 hen did " I consider these things, He confider'd. them fir ft and made them afterwards. God in his Æ- 1 ternall Idea, foresaw Thati whereof as yet there was no Material! C°? y \ The goodnes and Beauty of the one, mov’d him to create the o- ther, and truly the Image of this ‘Prototype jbeingimbosom’d in the Second made Him so ,much in love with his (re at arc , that when ee -> j Sin had defae’d it, He restor ed it by the fuffer- jingsof that Pattern by which at first it was -|made. Dyonijius the Areopagite , who lived in j the Primitive Times , and received the Myste- R ■ j ties of Divinity immediately from the A- | postles, stiles God the Father,sometimes Area- A j num Divinitatis, sometimes Occultum Hind fu~
lord) hersubftantiale and elsewhere he compares him did, J to