Chapter 7: Of Man

Of Man

Man whiche is the perfectest image of God in earthe, and also is the chefe dignite and honoure amonge all creatures visible, beynge made of soule and body, of the whiche twayne the body is mortall, the soule immortall, whan he was creat of god holy, by fallynge in vyce and synne throughe his owne fal, drew with hym in that same ruen & fal, & so subiected all mankynde to the same calamitie & wretchydnes that he fell in.