This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1619 edition. Excerpt: ... greater, which as it is an art of Religion most honorable to the Creator, so is it most beneficial! also to his creature; who receiuing this precious body from the liberality of God, offers It to him againe, for an Holocaust, for a thanksgiuing, for a Propitiation or semislion of sin, honoring him sot his gifts, with his.propergife, asin Figure thereof. In the Law of Nature and Afoyses, the holy Saints did honor him, in making offrings of those goods, that they had receiued of.him: Which is it that thegreatanddeuout KingZ)Mconfesscth, saying, .a.pMi.i9.t4. i/Mtbings an tbim, and we btutigmen thee that, .which wee haze received from thy hands. In this Sacrament wee haue likewise a lesson of humility, seeing our Sauiour to appeare amongst vs in a poore familiar habit, without attendance, and in a meaner manner then 'Dautd, when he came to the;& . priest Aehiraelecb; to appeare, I fay, not in his owne gar ment, butvndcr the formes of bread and wine, hidixig therewith his robe of glory, that wee might with greater confidence draw ncerevnto him. Wee haue hecre also a; lesson of patience; beholding ourRedeemer to endure so constantly, and for so many ages the iniuries that the wic1 Iced doc vnto him, through their misbelcefe, their sinnes, their blasphemies, treading, him ynder their feete casting him into the sier, and the like di(honors, though all this be done without any hurt of his impassible body. Hcere we haue also a lesson of obedience.in that he is present without faile, at the voyce of his Vicar, whosoeuer he be, prp_ neuncing the words of his omnipotency, puer the bread and wine.Hccre dierefore we haue a lesson of all the mpst high vertues, giuen by the example it seise, of our Redeemcr, aminnerof teaching most..

Anthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.