Thesis 5.
For whatever is set next, and as it were contiguous to e••ternall, [ 5] is eternall; Omne contiguum ae••erno spirituali est a••ternum (say some) and hence it is that the soule is eternall because it is made nextly for God, and as it were con••tiguous to him. The body also shall bee eternall, be••cause contiguous to the eternall soule: But no other in••feriour Creatures are thus eternall: For although they b•• made nextly for man, yet so, as that they are firstly for th•• body, which is of it selfe mortall, and not eternall, an•• therefore not being contiguous to that which is spirituall•• eternall, are not so themselves▪ and the reason of this i•• because all inferiour Creatures, as they come out from God, so their motion is toward man, for whom they a•••• nextly made,* 1.1 and they go out strait forward from God as it were in a strait line toward man, to the last end an•• terme of which strait line when they are come, in the ser••vice of man, they then cannot proceed any further, and d•• therefore perish and cease to be, without reflecting, or re••turning back againe immediately unto God. But ma•• being made immediately and nextly for God, hath therfor•• his motion so toward God, as that he returnes immediatel•• unto him againe, and is not led in a strait line, but led (〈◊〉〈◊〉 it were) about in a circular motion, and hence returning immediately to him, he is hereby eternally preserved i•• him, for whom he is immediately made, and unto whom h•• is nextly contiguous, as hath been said.