part,  becaiifle  we  behold  the  same  in  ourselves,  the  inference
IS  not  reasonable ;  for  if  we  conceive  the  way  of  his  forma-
tion, or  of  the  first  animals,  did  carrj  in  all  points  a  strict
conformity  unto  succeeding  productions,  we  might  foil  into
imaginations  that  Adam  was  made  without  teeth ;  or  that  he
ran  through  those  notable  alterations  in  the  vessels  of  the
heart,  which  the  infiuat  suffereth  after  birth :  we  need  not
<iispute  whether  the  egg  or  bird  were  first ;  and  might  con-
ceive that  dogs  were  created  blind,  because  we  observe  they
are  littered  so  with  us.  Which  to  affirm,  is  to  confound,  at
least  to  regulate  creation  unto  generation,  the  first  acts  of
God,  unto  the  second  of  nature ;  which  were  determined  in
that  general  indulgence,  increase  and  multiply,  produce  or
propagate  each  other ;  that  is,  not  answerably  in  all  points,
out  in  a  prolonged  method  according  to  seminal  progression.
!For  the  formation  of  things  at  first  was  different  from  their
generation  after ;  and  although  it  had  nothing  to  precede  it,
was  aptly  contrived  for  that  which  should  succeed  it.  And
therefore  though  Adam  were  framed  without  this  part,  as
having  no  other  womb  than  that  of  his  proper  principles,  yet
was  not  his  posterity  without  the  same ;  for  the  seminality
of  his  fabrick  contained  the  power  thereof ;  and  was  endued
with  the  science  of  those  parts  whose  predestinations  upon
succession  it  did  accomplish.
