Their Method of Generation. gi 
And-now follows the ftrange and admirable metamor- 
phofis.. It is manifeft, that moft infects pafs thro’ a ve- 
ry great variety of transformations, fucceflively afluming 
the form of one living creature, and then another, be- 
tween which there is not the leaft refemblance. “Yet the 
wonderful change is progreffive and gradual ; firft in one 
part, and then in another, Opening one of thefe ma- 
trixes, wherein is enclofed the embryo, whofe improving 
change approaches; what do you behold but am ugly 
worm, or confufed mafs of corrupt matter! yet. in that 
putrid mafs are implanted and fown the feeds of fo noble 
an infect. 
Thus it lies hid from the eyes of all the living, feems 
to be intombed, and buried in it’s grave, without any the 
leaft fign of life; yet have patience, and you fhall fee the 
noble creature rifing, as it were, from the dead, perfec 
in all it’s parts, and in the moft beautiful form, far more 
glorious than that laid down. A’ moft lively emblem or 
image of the refurrection ! 
The like image of the refurrection, the author of our 
holy religion hath given us in a grain of wheat, which 
muft /perith and die, before it can multiply, and bring 
forth fruit.* To every thing there is a feafon, and a time 
to every purpofés @ time to be born, and a time to die and 
rife again. 
In this intermediate ftate is the principal and moft af- 
fecting transformation. The worm thus interred or feal- 
ed is converted into another living creature; conceived 
a fecond time and born anew ; immediately commencing 
(according 
¢ ) John xii, 244 compare 1 Cor, xv, 9 + Keclef, ili, 1, 2. 
