First Sentence

"SEeing the only Wife and Merciful God in thefe latter days hath poured our fo richly his mercy and goodnefs to Mankind, wherby we do attain more and more to the perfect knowledge of his Son Jefus Chrift and Nature, that juftly we may boaft of the happy time, wherein there in not only difcovered unto us the half part of the World, which was heretofore unknown & hidden, but he hath alfo made manifeft unto us many wonderful, and never-heretofore feen, Works and Creatures of Nature, and moreover hath raifed men, indued with great Wifdom, which might partly renew and reduce all Arts (in this our Age fpotted and imperfect) to perfection, fo that finally Man might thereby underftand his own Noblenefs and Worth, and why he is called Microcofmus, and how far his knowledg extendeth in Nature."