BOOK V.A SURVEY ofMan.
A SURVEY ofMan.
The firstGenusof Animals that I shall take Notice of, shall beMan, who may justly claim the Precedence in our Discourse, inasmuch as God hath given him the Superiority in the Animal World;Gen.i. 26.And God said, Let us make Man in our Image, afterour Likeness; and let them have Dominion over the Fish of the Sea, and over the Fowl of the Air, and over the Cattle, and over all the Earth, and over every creeping Thing that creepeth upon the Earth.
And as to Man, we have so excellent a Piece of Workmanship, such a Microcosm, such an Abridgment of the Creator’s Art in him, as is alone sufficient to demonstrate the Being and Attributes ofGOD. Which will appear by considering theSouland theBodyof Man.