But that Moses presses so hard upon it, and says, God created Man of a Lump of Earth; there the Vail is before his Face, so that the earthly Man cannot look him in the Face; indeed he was rightly a Lump of Earth, and Earth, when he had eaten earthly Fruit, which God did forbid him; but if Adam (before the Fall) had been of the Earth earthly, then God would not have forbid him the earthly Fruit; as also, if he had been created out of the earthly Element, why did not the earthly Element put its Clothes upon him instantly with a rough Skin? Why did that [earthly Element] leave Man naked and bare? And when it had plainly possessed him, yet it left him naked.

The dear man Moses writeth, That God made man out of a clod of earth, as the learned have rendered it. But Moses was not present when it was done.

Moses writeth very rightly, that man was created out of the earth; but at that time, when the mass was held by the Word, then the mass was not earth....

Man is made out of the seed of the earth, out of an incorporated or compacted mass or lump— ["Understand, out of the matrix of the earth, wherein the...

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...

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...