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The Fourteenth Question. (Book 14)
Whether such New Soul be without Sin. (Book 14)
1. VVE understand here the Propagated Soul in a Child newly born; my beloved Friend, this is a very acute Que∣stion, but to you my beloved Friend, it shall be answered, that the time of the opening is born or generated, the day dawneth or breaketh, the night is passed away; praise and * 1.1 thanks be given to God for it, that hath generated us again to the Light, to an uncor∣ruptible or unfadable Inheritance, and hath received us for his beloved Children.
2. You my beloved Friend know well the heavy Fall of Adam; as we have exactly set it down in all our Writings, viz. that the Soul with its right Eye, hath turned it self away from God into the Spirit of this World, and is become disobedient to God, and hath destroyed its noble and pretious Image, and hath introduced a monstrous