The father that begets, knows not the making of him; the mother that conceives, knows it not; neither doth the formative virtue, (as we call it) that is, that vigour that is in the materials, that shapes, and fashions, and articulates the body in the womb, that knows not what it doth. Now is is certain; that he that makes any thing, must needs know it perfectly, and all the parts of it, though the stander by may be ignorant of it. As for example; he that makes a statue, knows how ⟨p. 7⟩every particle is made; he that makes a Watch, or any ordinary work of art, he knows all the junctures, all the wheels, and commissures of it, or else it is impossible that he should make it: now all these that have a hand in making of man, know not the making of him, not the father, nor the mother, nor that which we call the formative virtue, that is, that vigour which is in the materials, which works and fashions the body, as the work-man doth a statue, and gives several limbs to it, all these know it not: therefore he must needs be made by God, and not by man: and therefore see how the Wise-man reasons, Psal. 94.9.1 He that made the eye, shall he not see? he that made the ear, shall not he hear? &c. that is, he that is the maker of the engines, or organs, or senses, or limbs of the body, or he that is maker of the soul, and faculties of it, it is certain that he must know, though others do not, the making of the body and soul, the turnings of the will, and the windings of the understanding; all those other are but as pencils in the hand of him that doth all; the pencil knows not what it doth, though it draws all, it is guided by the hand of a skilful Painter, else it could do nothing; the Painter only knoweth what he doth; so that formative virtue, that vigour that forms the body of a man, that knows no more what it doth, than the pencil doth, but he in whose hand it is, who sets it on work, it is he that gives vigour and virtue to that seed in the womb, from whence the body is raised, it is he that knows it, for it is he ⟨p. 8⟩that makes it. And this is the first particular by which we prove that things were made, and had not their original from themselves. The second is:
The father that begets, knowes not the making of him; the mother that conceives, knowes it not; neither doth the formative vertue, (as we call it) that is, that vigour that is in the materials, that shapes, and fashions, and articulates the body in the wombe, that knowes not what it doth. Now is is certaine; that he that makes any thing, must needs know it perfectly, and all the parts of it, though the stander by may be ignorant of it. As for example; he that makes a statue, knowes how ⟨p. 7⟩every particle is made; he that makes a Watch, or any ordinary worke of art, he knowes all the junctures, all the wheeles, and commissures of it, or else it is impossible that hee should make it: now all these that have a hand in making of man, know not the making of him, not the father, nor the mother, nor that which wee call the formative vertue, that is, that vigour which is in the materials, which workes and fashions the bodie, as the work-man doth a statue, and gives severall limbes to it, all these know it not: therefore hee must needs be made by God, and not by man: and therefore see how the Wise-man reasons, Psal. 94.9.1 Hee that made the eye, shall he not see? he that made the eare, shall not he heare? &c. that is, he that is the maker of the engines, or organes, or senses, or limbes of the body, or hee that is maker of the soule, and faculties of it, it is certaine that he must know, though others doe not, the making of the body and soule, the turnings of the will, and the windings of the understanding; all those other are but as pensils in the hand of him that doth all; the pensill knowes not what it doth, though it drawes all, it is guided by the hand of a skilfull Painter, else it could do nothing; the Painter only knoweth what he doth; so that formative vertue, that vigour that formes the bodie of a man, that knowes no more what it doth, than the pensill doth, but he in whose hand it is, who sets it on worke, it is he that gives vigour and vertue to that seed in the womb, from whence the bodie is raised, it is he that knows it, for it is he ⟨p. 8⟩that makes it. And this is the first particular by which wee prove that things were made, and had not their originall from themselves. The second is:
- 1Psal. 94.9.
