crfife again from time to time and accordingly the twffled parrs of the Ro\v 
dorh grow fulla^aisj with Mifcu inc Seed, that fo at the Oriking time, they 
ar^ fo L vely, or are n^uch cHliv-ned that we haveofrea dnies fecn 'them 
fvv!rr» Ibrth. ia t^iin Mc fta e that conraineth chem. 
Tiais being To, we mu^ arcably «{Tcrt it as a truth, that _wlien a Cod hath 
fh:-': h?s MjTa'UocSeed rhi -e dorh ft ll reaiaiti Jn his Soft Bows, a great 
dca' 0' Stedirg Maftei, vvhcrc cut more Scedly Animals are produced, thea 
^^erc» Onr our of It rhe Tear b:fore, by. Reafoa as Fifhes grow 'ajgi^er 
from Year to Year, fc> doth alic? their Soft Rows encreafe ia buik. ° 
No-v that rhefe An'-nah fnould come or proceed from themfelves, feems 
to me not to be scpre'^cnded, for if they O^ould come from, or cut of ihcm- 
fclvcs, lim^igh'c chat th; ri they could liot ail be endued with one and the 
fame q.iartv-as DOW thty are. 
For we fiad liOi the Mai. u.' ne Seed of a Cod,^ doth, intermiK with the 
Fcu/ale E;^c,-. cr other f nh, ahh^.ugh they ftrike at the fame time. We 
have only oj.srved that thf Fifhes which we call Soals and Schars^ ieter- 
mix the) SJio: S ed-j (yet very fc'dom) with ore another, from whence 
comes -i b'iih, rliat Ir neiih vr SehAr*noi Soalh and therefore the Fiflier give, 
him the njme of ^tf^^yrf-/^;^/^ ^ 
Now are alfo the FiOie?, as miSny forts as are found, not of themfelves, 
but Originally come from the firft Seeds, aad that from th^ fame,, that 
were Created from the beginning. 
Now if we know vhich way the Fi(li do increafe,tbat it is not done but by 
iniermixiDg of the Male nd Female SecdSjanJ likewifc we do know the grear 
Mifterv that is inc!ud?.i uithefmall Sted of an Apple, why might not we 
then alT-rr, that in du Animal nf theMafculine Seed of a Man, is locked up 
a whole iM^n, and that the Animals of the Seed, are all descending from 
thefirfl Grcar^'d Man. 
We ifno-v, thJt the TtftNdes are chiefly confirting of a very thin and long 
VelTel, chat dofh lay in a rnu ctcude of turnings and windings, and that we 
have pulied om near rhe end of ic fome Living Creifures. 
Now if we im^ine,rhar rhrongh rhis long and thin VciTcI, the Matter of the 
MafculiDe Seed," vdirrewrh this long vtAel is filled up, is from time to time 
carryed very fl nvfv fu'-ther, to fill up the places again, of thcfe Animals that 
in and about the Gopujatiori were cirriedoff j^nd wh > doth know, but thefe 
Animals have left behind them fome Seminal Matccr, from whence 
thfir Species cm be Propagated, and that withoar Copulation, as wc have 
Obfcr^cd, thac fmall Animals, that were not near come to perfection 
bring firth chc-ir Kind wi hauc C <pu!i-ioa, are eocreafed !□ bigaefs, and. 
afterwards changed into b lying Creatures. 
It wi]l feem fl ange to many, that cannot comprehend, how In aa Ani- 
mal of eh- Mafculin - S ed jbat «?> fo lo omprehenfr/ely fmall, fo great a Secret, 
as a Body of a M. n doth comprehend, can bi L.:- eked up. Bat if we re=- 
member t.'^ac there are Living Creatures in Wau-rs, rhst we have >i:any times 
feen come bef )r'.^ our E>c that bcin§ of a Roundi'li Body, were no thicker 
then the thinr^ eod of a Tayl of aa Antmai in the Mafcaline Seed. 
And \ve have alfo at ^h^ fame time judged, thit a^thoufand Millions o\ thefe 
Animals togethefj could make up so bigger a Body then, a fing'eCorn of a 
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