. Miscellanea Spiritualia : or, Devout essaies. t u r e , divided into two Sedions.§. I. • Treating the Originall refcttude of <S\Tansnature ^ and theprefent obliquity thereof, S in Navigation, Cofmograpliie is no IcifeufefuU then Aftrologie, by reafon it is byI fome relation to the earth, that all meafuresare taken, and all reckonings are made inthe feverall courfes of our faylings ^ even foin our fpirituall voyage through this life, itfeems no lelle requifite, to ftudy the Map of our own Eartliwe carry about us, then to fpeculate the Globe o^ heaven,vvhereunto we are fteering, in regard t
. Miscellanea Spiritualia : or, Devout essaies. t u r e , divided into two Sedions.§. I. • Treating the Originall refcttude of <S\Tansnature ^ and theprefent obliquity thereof, S in Navigation, Cofmograpliie is no IcifeufefuU then Aftrologie, by reafon it is byI fome relation to the earth, that all meafuresare taken, and all reckonings are made inthe feverall courfes of our faylings ^ even foin our fpirituall voyage through this life, itfeems no lelle requifite, to ftudy the Map of our own Eartliwe carry about us, then to fpeculate the Globe o^ heaven,vvhereunto we are fteering, in regard the conftitution of ourinfirme Nature ought to be underftood, in order to the con-ducing of the VeiTcU to her fupixme and heavenly defignati-on-. And the knowledge ofourfelfe, is as it were the Com-paffe, whereby we muft fet our courfe, fince it is out of diversknowne properties of humane nature, that we forme pointsofdiredion, by which we judge, howneere our anions anddefigns ftand to the right courfe of a rational nature: And as B • the. (tAMap of Chap^ il tBe foule and bodie in man, hold an analogic with the firma-ment and the earth, in point of conftituting but one world ofthefe fo differing fubftaRces-, So Ihall we doe well to confiderthe fpirituall and corporeall fubftances in man, as making onecocxiftence, whereby we may the better underftand the na-ture of the fubjedwe difcourfe upon, and refle<5ting on mansconfining of two fo diverfe portions, as fpirit and materiality,we lliall wonder the leffe, at thofe fo difcordant qualities,which are found in this compound nature of Man. If Faith did not oblige us to beleeve our own originall inte-grity, we have fcarce vertue enough left to own it, our reafonis fo degenerated, as flie hath no mind to claime by that pre-fcription the dominion of our fenfitive appetites Vwhich areher naturall fubjedlsiihe feemes fo much better pleafed to yeeldunto their government; but let us move Reafon (by the dig-nity of her prerogative, a
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