(36) But seeing all the Creatures and Vegetables were created before the Time of Man, therefore the Fault ought not to be laid upon Man; for Man got not the bestial Body in his Creation; but it first came to be so in his Fall.

(37) Neither has Man brought the Malignity, Poison and Venom into the Beasts, Birds, Worms, and Stones, for he had not their Body; otherwise if he had brought Malignity and Fierceness or Wrath into all Creatures, then he could never have looked for Mercy at God’s Hands, no more than the Devil.

(95) For in Respect of this Light, Understanding, and Government, is Man distinguished from Beasts, and is an Angel of God, as I shall clearly show, when I shall write of the Creation of Man.

(83) Thou hast a very good Example and Instance of this, if thou wilt but see, and wilt not be stark blind here; viz. in the Beasts, Fowls, and all Vegetations or Growths in this World: All these were created before Man was created, who is and signifies the second Host or Army, which God created instead of expelled Lucifer, out of the Place of Lucifer. Question. But now, what did the astringent or harsh Quality do in Lucifer? Answer.

(3) Therefore hath He made man of soul and body,—that is, of an eternal and a mortal nature; so that an animal thus blended can content his dual origin,—admire and worship things in heaven, and cultivate and govern things on earth. By mortal things I do not mean the water or the earth [themselves], for these are two of the [immortal] elements that nature hath made subject unto men,—but [either] things that are by men, or [that are] in or from them ; such as the cultivation of the earth itself, pastures, [and] buildings, harbours, voyagings, intercommunications, mutual services, which are the firmest bonds of men between themselves and that part of the Cosmos which consists [indeed] of water and of earth, [but is] the Cosmos’ terrene part,—which is preserved by knowledge and the use of arts and sciences; without which [things] God willeth not Cosmos should be complete. In that necessity doth follow what seems good to God; performance waits upon His will. Nor is it credible that that which once hath pleased Him, will become unpleasing unto God; since He hath known both what will be, and what will please Him, long before.

(122) O Man, thou wast not created together with and as the Beasts, by the Word, from Good and Evil; and if thou hadst not eaten of Good and Evil, then the Wrath-fire would not have been in thee; but by that means thou hast also gotten a bestial Body: It is done, the Love of God take Pity, and have Mercy in that Behalf.

(24) Now the Purpose of God was, to make a curious excellent angelical Host or Army out of the Earth, and all Manner of Ideas, Forms, or Images. For in and upon that all should spring, and generate themselves anew, as we see in mineral Ores, Stones, Trees, Herbs and Grass, and all manner of Beasts, after a heavenly Image or Form.

(173) Therefore also the Creatures, as Beasts, Fowls, or Birds, Fishes and Worms, in this World, are not created to an eternal Being, but to a transitory one, as the Figures in Heaven also pass away.

(2) And after all this He created man, a man and a woman created He them, and gave him dominion over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this He gave him dominion. And these four kinds He created on the sixth day.