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§. 5. The Seed sown at Death.
SOme may object, If Man be a small Incarnation, wherein God was pleased to multiply himself; Or if Man be God's Off-spring and Essence, how can God pass Sentence upon his own Essence? Answ. Here lies the great Mystery: The Work of Eternity is the World not yet made, and yet ever made by Eterni∣ty: viz. This World was made in six Days, but the World for which this was made, will scarce be finish∣ed in less than Six thousand Mystical Days or Years. The Soul as to the stamp, mold, or eternal shape thereof, will not be finished till the death of the Bo∣dy: Even then the Signature of the Soul's Spirit, (or else of its Worm) will be charactered for Eter∣nity. Every wicked Soul is but an Embryo: And the Divine Child, or Pious Soul, is now a forming in the Womb of the outward Body, and not perfected in an holy Man till the fall of the Body. Therefore whatsoever God doth, it shall be for ever established by his Graver, the Spirit on the Souls Beast-Plate. Con∣sider his Work: For who can make straight that which he hath made crooked, by the Law which altereth not. And say not thou, What is the cause that the former Days in the outward Life, were better than these dark and gloomy Days nigh Deaths Door: For thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this: And the Day of Death (if the Soul be perfected in its formation) is better than the Day of the false Birth. Dici{que} beatus ante Obitum n••m•• suprema{que} funera debet: No Man before Death should be accounted happy: This World is a wide Prison, and every Day is Execution Day.