Two guides to a good life The genealogy of vertue and the nathomy of sinne. Liuely displaying the worth of one, and the vanity of the other.

How the soule is in the body.

THe soule is in the body not▪ as pro∣ceeding from the generatiue seed, or the commixture of the humours, for then the soule should be corrupti∣ble as they are: but the soule is in the body by infusion of God the creator, after that the parts of the body are al∣ready framed & fashioned, and that by no other vertue, but by his own omni∣potent power: so that we must thinke when God inspired a soule into Adam, he made not a blast of his own nature, nor of the ayre round about him, but euen of nothing: who being himselfe incorporall, made the soule also incor∣porall;

but yet he being vnchangable, made the soule mutable, because him∣selfe being vncreated, made the soule a creature. Vpon this may rise a questi∣on, that if the soule be infused and cre∣ated of God, and comes not by propa∣gation from our parents, whence hath it then the pollution which we call ori∣ginall sinne? It were horrible to say it were so created, knowing that all the workes of God are pure and holy; and from the body it cannot come, for the bodie infectes not the soule, but the soule the body, whose instrument it is. Wee answere, that as the soule is in∣fused by god, in that respect it is clean & without spot, but so soon as it is en∣tred vnder the line of the children of Adam, it is presently made subiect to the curse which God laide vppon A∣dam and his posterity, and so becomes guilty of originall sinne.