Now we must needs clearly [conceive, or] think, that the paradisical Fruit which was good, was not so very earthly, for (as Moses himself says) they were of two Sorts; the one good to eat, and pleasant to behold, and the other had the Death and Corruptibility in it: In the paradisical Fruit, there was no Death nor Corruptibility; for if there had been any Death or Corruptibility therein, then Adam had eaten Death in all the Fruits; but seeing there was no Death therein, therefore the Fruit could not be so altogether earthly; though indeed it sprung out of the Earth, yet the divine Virtue of the second Principle was imprinted therein, and yet they were truly in the third Principle, grown [or sprung] out of the Earth, which God cursed as to the earthly Food, that no paradisical Fruit did grow any more out of the Earth.

Now when Adam eat of the Fruit, which was Good and Evil, then he suddenly got such a Body also. The Fruit was corrupt or perished, and palpable, as...

But seeing Adam’s Spirit longed after that Fruit which was of the Quality of the corrupted Earth, therefore also Nature formed or framed such a Tree f...

First, thou hast the bestial Flesh, which is come to be through the lustful longing Bit of the Apple, for it is the House of Corruption. For when...

Not that the Fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the Wrath of God; for the one only incorporated or compacted Word, which is immortal and...

But seeing the Seed, or Mass, or Lump, out of which Adam was made, was somewhat infected with the corrupt Disease or Malady of the Devil, Adam therefo...

Thus also the Earth brought forth no strange Life, but even that which had been in it from Eternity: And as before the Time of the Wrath it had...