(42) For, the outermost Birth of the Water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the Water, which is called Heaven, and which is made out of the Midst or Center of the Water. [“Heaven is the Firmament, viz. the Fire-sea, or Sea of Fire, out of the seven Spirits of Nature, out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted, incorporated, or created by the Word FIAT: And it has or contains both Fire and Water, and hangs in itself inwardly on the first Principle, and shall bring its Wonders, with or as to the Figure of them, into the Eternal; but its Birth or Geniture fades or passes away.”]

(87) Nature has likewise manifested or revealed so much to Man, that he knows how he may melt away the strange or heterogeneous Matter from every qualifying or fountain Spirit’s strange infected innate Birth or Geniture; whereby that qualifying or fountain Spirit might remain Chief in its own Primacy.

(1) WHEN Man beholds the Deep above the Earth, he sees nothing but Stars and Clouds of Water, and then he thinks, sure there must be another Place, where the Deity presents or shows forth itself, together with the heavenly and angelical Government: He will needs have the Deep together with its Regimen or Dominion separated from the Deity; for there he sees nothing but Stars; and the Regimen or Dominion between, is Fire, Air, and Water.

(29) Every Star has a several peculiar Property, which thou mayest perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blossoming Earth. And the Creator has therefore rebuilt and revived again the old kindled Body into so many and various Powers, that through this old Life, in the Wrath, such a new Life might generate itself therein, through the Closure of Heaven, that that new Life might have all the Powers and Operations that ever the old had before the Times of Wrath, that it might qualify, mix, or unite with the pure Deity distinct from this World, and that it might be one holy God, together with the Deity without, distinct from this World.