"1. In his Preparation: Other Creatures receive the Charter of their Beings by a sme Fiat, but there was a Contation, at his forming; not for the difficulty, but o the dignity of the Work. The Painter is most studiou about that which he to make his Master-piece: The four Elements were taken out of their Elements to make up the perfection of mans complexion: the Fire was purified, the ar was clarified, the Water was purged, the Earth was refined; when Man was moulded, Heaven and Earth was married; a Boy from the one, was espoused to a Soul from the other."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.
William Secker preached at Tewkesbury and afterwards at All-Hallows, London Wall. He may have been the William Secker who was appointed rector of Leigh, Essex, on 30 Aug. 1667, and died there before November 1681.
Secker's sermon on 'A Wedding Ring fit for the Finger, or the Salve of Divinity on the Sore of Humanity, laid open at a Wedding in St. Edmunds, London, 1658, 12mo, was very popular, and was often reprinted. It was translated into Welsh.
Secker also dedicated to Sir Edward and Lady Frances Barkham of Tottenham, who had befriended him, a volume of sermons entitled 'The Nonsuch Professor' (London, 1660, 8vo). It was several times reprinted in America.
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