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Gen_1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Ver. 25. And all creeping things of the earth.] God assigns the parts of the people as of the gnat, saith an ancient. {Disponit Deus membra publicis et culicis.} And the wisdom of men and angels, saith a modern writer, cannot mend the least thing in a fly. The figure, colour, quality, quantity of every worm, and every flower, with what exactness is it ordered! as if God nod nothing else to do, but to bring forth such a creature into the world, as the product of his infinite wisdom. The devil, with all his skill, could not create a louse. {Exo_8:18} Myrmecides spent more time to make an artificial bee, than some do to build a house. Pliny {a} makes mention of one who had spent sixty-eight years in searching out the nature of the bee, and yet had not fully found it out. God is the greatest in the smallest matters. {Deus est maximus in mininis.} Holy Mr Dod, being at Holmeby, and invited by an honourable person to see that once stately house, desired to be excused, and to sit still, looking on a flower which he had in his hand. "In this flower," saith he, "I can see more of God than in all the beautiful buildings in the world." {b}
{a} Plin. l. xi. c. 9.
{b} Full. Chur. Hist. p. 210.