For because Man was to be eternal, therefore he must also come to be out of the Eternal; for nothing is created out of the Fountain of the Heart of God. For that is the End of Nature, and has no such Essences; no comprehensible [or palpable] Thing enters therein; otherwise it would be a Filling and Darkness, and that cannot be: Also from Eternity, there has been nothing else but only the Source [or working Property] where the Deity continually rises up, as is mentioned before.

Thus, because man is created according to the qualifying or fountain spirits of God, and also out of the divine essence, therefore has man's life...

Now, where nothing is, there nothing can come to be: All things must have a root, else can nothing grow: If the seven spirits of nature had not been...

For the ideas or figures have in a manner framed themselves thus from eternity, and have passed away and altered again [come and gone perpetually] thr...

All things must have a cause or root, or else nothing will be.

He is proceeded or born of nothing, but he himself is all, in eternity; and all whatsoever is, is come from his power, which from eternity goeth...

For the outermost birth is nature, and that ought not to reach back into the heart of God, neither can it, but it is the body, in which the qualifying...