Imagine looking down from some high place. You see flocks of animals and countless sacrifices. You see all kinds of ships — some sailing through rough, stormy seas, others in calm waters. You see the general differences between things. Some are just beginning to exist. You see how things relate to each other. And you see other things that are coming to an end.
From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold here flocks, and there sacrifices, without number; and all kind of navigation; some in a rough and stormy sea, and some in a calm: the general differences, or different estates of things, some, that are now first upon being; the several and mutual relations of those things that are together; and some other things that are at their last.