XXXIII. Admitting that Christ or the Word had no hypostatic [actual] existence from the beginning, he nevertheless declares that Angels and the Elect were verily in God from the first. REPLY. XXXIII. What you mix up and make me say here, is false. Nothing created—no creature—existed before the moment of its creation. ARTICLE. XXXIV. He maintains that the Deity is present substantially in all creatures. REPLY. XXXIV. God, I say, is present in all creatures by his essence and power, and himself sustains all things. ARTICLE. XXXV. Having mixed up many vain, perverse, and pernicious dreams about the substance of Souls, he concludes at length that the Soul is from God and of his substance; 416 that a created inspiration was infused into it along with its divineness; and that in respect of substance it was united through the Holy Spirit by a new inspiration into one light with God. REPLY. XXXV. Take away the words, of his substance, you will find the rest to be true; and that it is you yourself who dream with Simon Magus. ARTICLE. XXXVI. Though the soul is not primarily God, yet does it become Divine or is made God by the Spirit, which, indeed, is very God, so that it is improper to doubt that our Souls and the Holy Spirit conjoined with Christ are of the same elementary substance as the Word conjoined with the flesh. Further, that created and uncreated things combine and unite in one substance of Soul and Spirit. REPLY. XXXVI. This is so; many things thus unite in one—bones, flesh, nerves, soul, spirit, and form, for instance, to make the one substance of Man. ARTICLE. XXXVII. He has written and published horrible blasphemies against the Baptism of Infants, and has said that mortal sin is not committed before the age of twenty years. REPLY. XXXVII. I own to having written so; but when you have convinced me that I am in error in this, I will not only acknowledge my fault, but kiss the ground under your feet. ARTICLE. XXXVIII. The Soul, he says, was made mortal by sin, even as the flesh is mortal—not meaning to say that the Soul is annihilated, but that deprived by pain of the vital 417 actions of the body, it languishes, and is shut up in hell as if it were to live no more. Thence he concludes that the Regenerate have souls other than they had before, new substance, new divineness being added to them [by the Water of Baptism]. REPLY. XXXVIII. The passage you quote against me, shows that you act perfidiously. I there say that it is as if the Soul died, and, languishing, is detained in Hell. But if it languishes, it still lives. See what I have elsewhere said of the ‘Survival of the Soul,’ pp. 76, 229, and 718 [of the Chr. Rest]. The souls of the regenerate, I say, are other than they were before; even as a thing is said to be new or altered by the accession of new properties.[93]