_That this worke imitateth the Creation of the worlde._
He giueth vs also an example of the composition of his Stone, saying,
_So was the world created_. That is, like as the world was created,
so is our stone composed. For in the beginning, the whole world and
all that is therein, was a confused Masse or Chaos (as is aboue saide)
but afterward by the workemanship of the soueraigne Creator, this
masse was diuided into the foure elements, wonderfully separated and
rectified, through which separation, diuers things were created: so
likewise may diuers things bee made by ordering our worke, through
the separation of the diuers elemẽts frõ diuers bodies. _Here shal be
wonderfull adaptations_: that is, If thou shalt separate the elements,
there shall be admirable compositions, fitte for our worke in the
composition of our Stone, by the elements rectified: _Wherof_, to wit,
of which wonderfull things fit for this: _the meanes_, to wit, to
proceede by, _is here_.