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 or bruitish Creatures, for they had no reason, the Air flying things, and the Water such as swim.

17. And the Earth and the Water were separated, either from other, as the Minde would; and the Earth brought forth from her self, such Living Creatures as she had, four footed and creeping Beasts, wilde and tame.

18. But the Father of all things, the Minde being Life and Light, brought forth Man, like unto himself, whom he loved as his proper Birth; for he was all beauteous, having the Image of his Father.

19. For indeed God was exceedingly enamored of his own Form or Shape, and delivered unto it all his own Workmanships: But he seeing and understanding the Creation of the Workman in the whole, would needs also himself fall to work, and so was separated from the Father, being in the sphere of Generation or Operation.