But  this  is  a  conceit  answerable  unto  the  generation  of  the
giants ;  not  admittable  in  philosophy,  much  less  in  divinity,
which  distinctly  informeth  we  are  all  the  seed  of  Adam,  that
the  whole  world  perished,  unto  eight  persons  before  the
fiood,  and  was  after  peopled  by  the  colonies  of  the  sons  of
Noah.  There  was  therefore  never  any  autochthon,^  or  man
arising  firom  the  earth,  but  Adam ;  for  the  woman  being
formed  out  of  the  rib,  was  once  removed  from  earth,
and  framed  from  that  element  under  incarnation.  And  so
although  her  production  were  not  by  copulation,  yet  was  it
in  a  manner  seminal :  for  if  in  every  part  from  whence  the
seed  doth  flow,  there  be  contained  the  idea  of  the  whole ;
there  was  a  seminaJity  and  contracted  Adam  in  the  rib,
which,  by  the  information  of  a  soul,  was  individuated  unto
Eve,  And  therefore  this  conceit  applied  unto  the  original
of  man,  and  the  beginning  of  the  world,  is  more  justly
appropriable  unto  its  end ;  for  then  indeed  men  shall  rise
out  01  the  earth  :  the  graves  shall  shoot  up  their  concealed
aeeds,  and  in  that  great  autumn,  men  shall  spring  up,  and
Awake  from  their  chaos  again.
