Book III. The Temple of fV/f^omf. I o r

Plants, Animals, Figures, Eiemencs, Heavens, from Spi- rits, Angels, and every thing -, and how all things maybe fiftei for all things, in their time, place,order,meafurr, proportion and harmony, and can draw and bring to hinifelf even as a Loadftone Iron.
And Ficiniis in his Book teacheth , that no man can come to the perfeftion of this Art , who (hall not know the principles of it in himfelf: But by how much the more every one (hall knqw himfelf, by (b muchheob^ taineth the greater power ofattrafting it>and by fo muclr operateth greater and more wonderful things, and will afeend to fo great a perfeftion, that l^e is mJi4e the Soji of God, and ii> tranflated into tha^t Image which is God, and is united with him 5 which is not granted to Angels, the World) or any Creature, but to man onely, viz* to have power to be made the Son of God, arid to be united to him ; but man being united to God, all things which are in Man, are united ; efpecially his Mindc, then his Spirits and Animal Powers, and vegeta^ tive faculty : And the Elements are to the matter, drawing with it felf even the body, whofe form it hath been, leading it forth into a better condition, and an Heavenly Nature, even until it be glorified into Immor-» tality. And this which we have fpoken, is the peculiar gift to man, to whom the dignity of the Divine Image IS proper, and common to no other creature.
But there are fome Parfbns who ftudy this Art, aiid make thofe powers of mans Memory, Underftanding and Willjthe Image of the Divine Trinity ;others of the Prcl^ by terian Clergy going further, do place this Image, not onely in thefe three faculties, which they call the firft AftSjbutalfointhefecondAfts; And as the Memory reprefcnteth the Father ; The Underftanding the Son; The Will, the Holy Ghoft : Soalfo the word produced ftoift OHT Underftanding and Love, flowing from our ^ " - Hhhj _ Will^
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Will, a id the Underftanding it felf havinga prefent ob^ jecT, and producing it, do let forth the Son, Spirit and rather. ■
And the more Zealous Proteftant Epi(copaI Mini- Sers teach, that moreover, all our members do repre- ient foniething in God, whofe Image they bear : And that even in our pafTions we reprefentGod ; but by a certain Analogy, Epifcopacie is the beft Religion, and that which teacheth the idea of the Law. But to our inatter : we read of the Wrath,Fury,Repentancc,Coai- jplaccncie,Love, Hatred, Pleafure, Delegation, DeHght, Indignation of God, d^r. And we have above Mo- lten of the Members of God , which ir.ay be con» gruent.
' " Alfd Divine Tlato in ThiUhus confeffing the Diving Trinity,dercribeth it lInder(landing,Lire and Brightnefs, which circwhere he calleth theWord, Minde, and the Spirit, and faith, that man is rrade after the Image of God, doth reprefent the fame Trinity 5 for there is in liman U'lderftanding Mind, a verifying Word, and a Spirit, as it wcreaDivineBirightnefsdiifufing itfelfon every fide, replenifhing all things, moving and knitting them together : But this is not to be undcrftood of the natural Spirit, which is the middle, by the which the Soul i? united ; the flefh and the body, by which the bo- dy liveth and afteth, and one member worketh on another; Of the which Spirit we have fpokert before : but we here fpeak of the natural Spirit ^ which yet in fomt fort is al(b corporeal $ notwithftanding it hath not s grofs body, tangible and vifible, but a more fubtle bo- dy, and eafie to be united with tfec Minde, viz, that Superiour and Divine one' which is in us. Neither let ai^ wonder, if we fay that the rational (bul i« that (pi- rit, and a corporeal thing, or- that it cither hath or fa«' jyoureji fomething of cor|wcity,wiiil€iti5 in thebody^