Contiguate

So then the Maſſe and Chaos being firſt created, void, darke, and imformed, was by the operatiue Spirit of God pierced and quickned, and the Waters hauing now receiued Spirit and motion, reſolued their thinner parts into aire, which God illightned .the Earth alſo by being contignat, and mixt with waters (participating the fame diuine vertue) brought forth the budde of the hearbe that ſeedeth ſeede, &c and for a meane and organ, by which this operatiue vertue might be continued, God appointed the light to be vnited, and gaue it alſo motion and heat, which heat cauſed a con tinuance of thoſe ſeuerall ſpecies, which the Earth (being made fruitfull by the Spirit) produced, and with motion begat the time, and times ſucceeding