A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

This is vain, because by the breathing of this life, it's said, Adam became a living soul, so that he was but a dead lump of earth (as it were) before; And indeed this Text is so clear, that I know none of the Adversaries to the souls immediate Creation do deny it: Now then, If the soul of Adam was by creation, Is it not probable that all other souls were in the like manner? What a great disproportion would there be between Adam and us, if his soul was by creation, and ours by generation? Some have questioned, Whether it would not make a specific difference between Adam and us? But that is not to be affirmed; For Christ as man was of the same species with other men, though his Conception and Nativity were miraculous: But the Argument from the Creation of Adam's soul, to the Creation of ours, though it be not cogent, yet it maketh it more then probable, because God at first did appoint that order, which afterwards was to continue; So he appointed the animate creatures, to multiply in their way, making their bodies and forms to be educed out of the power of the matter, (as Philosophers express it, though very obscurely,) but he did not do so with Adam's soul; Can we think that our souls are less glorious and precious before God (I mean as meet creatures) then Adam's was? It is true, There was a necessity that Adam's body should be otherwise made then ours, because he was the first Parent, and so he could not be by generation; Thus the other living creatures they had their bodies at first out of the earth, or out of the water, not by generation, as afterwards; Thus for the body there was a necessity, but then for the soul there was none at all; Why might not Adam's soul have been with his body out of the prejacent matter, as well as it was with other living creatures? But because the soul of man is of an higher nature coming from God alone: This Argument will appear in further strength, if you consider that Eve, though she was made in such an extraordinary manner out of Adam, yet she had not her soul from him, but her body only; For when he awakened, see what he saith, This is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh;

This is vain, because by the breathing of this life, it's said, Adam became a living soul, so that he was but a dead lump of earth (as it were) before; And indeed this Text is so clear, that I know none of the Adversaries to the souls immediate Creation do deny it: Now then, If the soul of Adam was by creation, Is it not probable that all other souls were in the like manner? What a great disproportion would there be between Adam and us, if his soul was by creation, and ours by generation? Some have questioned, Whether it would not make a specifical difference between Adam and us? But that is not to be affirmed; For Christ as man was of the same species with other men, though his Conception and Nativity were miraculous: But the Argument from the Creation of Adam's soul, to the Creation of ours, though it be not cogent, yet it maketh it more then probable, because God at first did appoint that order, which afterwards was to continue; So he appointed the animate creatures, to multiply in their way, making their bodies and forms to be educed out of the power of the matter, (as Philosophers expresse it, though very obscurely,) but he did not do so with Adam's soul; Can we think that our souls are lesse glorious and precious before God (I mean as meet creatures) then Adam's was? It is true, There was a necessity that Adam's body should be otherwise made then ours, because he was the first Parent, and so he could not be bygeneration; Thus the other living creatures they had their bodies at first out of the earth, or out of the water, not by generation, as afterwards; Thus for the body there was a necessity, but then for the soul there was none at all; Why might not Adam's soul have been with his body out of the prejacent matter, as well as it was with other living creatures? But because the soul of man is of an higher nature coming from God alone: This Argument will appear in further strength, if you consider that Eve, though she was made in such an extraordinary manner out of Adam, yet she had not her soul from him, but her body only; For when he awakened, see what he saith, This is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh;