This Body and Spirit, water and fire, are designed unto us by _Cain_ and _Abel_, the first Creatures of all others engendred of the seed of man and woman, and by their Sacrifices, whence those of _Cain_ issuing from the fruits of the earth, were by consequent corporall, dead, and inanimate, and together destitute of faith, which dependeth of the Spirit, and are by Fire dissolved into a waterish vapour, so that to go to finde it in its sphere and habitation, for the newes, we are to suffer thereunder. But those of _Abel_ were spirituall, animate, full of life, that resides in the bloud; full of piety and devotion. This also _Aben Ezra_, and the author of the _Handfull of Myrrh_, call a fire descending from one above to regather them: which happened not to those of _Cain_, which a strange fire devoured; and from thence was declared the exteriour man, sensuall, animall, that must bee salted with Salt; But _Abel_ the interiour, spirituall, salted with Fire; which is double, the materiall and essentiall, the actuall and potentiall, as it is in burnings. All what is sensible, and visible, is purged by the actuall, and the invisible, and intelligible, by the spiritual and potentiall. Saint _Ambrose_, on the Treatise of _Isaac_ and of the Soule. What is man, the soule of him, or the flesh, or the assembly of those two? for the clothing is one thing, and the thing clothed another. Indeed there are two men (I leave the _Messihe_ apart) _Adam_ was made and formed of God; in respect of the body, of ashes, and of earth, but afterwards inspired in him the Spirit of Life; if he had kept himselfe from misprision, he was like unto Angels, made participant of eternall beatitude, but his transgression dispossessed him. The other man is he, which comes successively to be borne of man and woman, who by his originall offence is made subject to death, to paines, travails, and diseases, therefore must hee returne from whence he came. But touching the soule that came from God, it remains in its free will: if it will adhere to God, it is capable to bee admitted into the ranke of his children, _who are borne not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God_. Such was _Adam_ before his first transgression.