Preached to the King, at the Court in April, 1629

              preached to the king at the court in abril afril 4pril 152 162 r629 GEN 1.26 126 126 AND GOD SAID LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE AFTER OUR LIKENESSE EVER such a frame so soon set up as this in this chapter Nforforthethingitselfethereisnootherthingtocompare it with for it is all it is the die oie ole whole world and for the time there was no other time to compare it with for this was the beginning of time in the beginning god created heaven and earth that earth which in some thousands of years men could not look over nor dis- cern what form it had for neither lactantius Lactantius almost three hundred years after christ nor saint augustine more then one hundred years after him would beleeve beleave the earth to be round that earth which no man in his person is ever said to have compassed till our age that earth which is too much for man yet for as yet a very great part of the earth is unpeopled that earth which if we will cast it all but into a mappe costs many months labour to grave it nay if we will cast but a peece beece of an acre of it into a garden costs many years labour to fashion and furnish it all that earth and then that heaven which spreads so farre as that subtile men have with some appearance of probability imagined that in that heaven in those manifold sphears spheers of the planets and the starres sharres Starres there are many earths many worlds as big as this which we inhabite inhabited that earth and that heaven which spent god himselfe himselfe almighty god six days in furnishing moses sets up in a few syllables in one line in principio in the beginning god created heaven and earth if a livy or a Guicciardi guicciardine guicciardini ne or such extensive and voluminous authors had had this story in hand god