Nosce Teipsum: Why the Soule is United to the Body

This substance, and this spirit of God's owne making,
Is in the body plact, and planted heere;
"That both of God, and of the world partaking,
"Of all that is, Man might the image beare.

Then other things, which mindlesse bodies be;
Last, He made Man, th' horizon 'twixt both kinds,
In whom we doe the World's abridgement see.

Besides, this World below did need one wight,
Which might thereof distinguish euery part;
Make vse thereof, and take therein delight,
And order things with industry and art:

Which also God might in His works admire,
And here beneath, yeeld Him both praier and praise;
As there, aboue, the holy angels quire
Doth spread His glory with spirituall layes.

Lastly, the bruite, unreasonable wights,
Did want a visible king on them to raigne:
And God, Himselfe thus to the World vnites,
That so the World might endlesse blisse obtaine.