Lastly, God being made Man for man's owne sake, And being like Man in all, except in sin, His body from the _virgin's_ wombe did take; But all agree, _God form'd His soule within_. Then is the _soule_ from God; so _Pagans_ say, Which saw by _Nature's_ light her heauenly kind; Naming her _kin to God, and God's bright ray_, A citizen of Heauen to Earth confined. But now, I feele, they plucke me by the eare Whom my young _Muse_ so boldly termèd blind; And craue more heauenly light, that cloud to clear, Which makes them think God doth not make the mind. [Footnote 108: Here and elsewhere, the 1622 edn. alters 'since' of the 1599 and 1608 edns. to the earlier form 'sith': on which see Wright's Bible Word-Book. _s.v._ G.] [Footnote 109: In 1599 and 1608 edns., 'did.' G.] REASONS DRAWNE FROM DIUINITY. God doubtlesse makes her, and doth make her good, And graffes her in the body, there to spring; Which, though it be corrupted, flesh and blood Can no way to the _Soule_ corruption bring: And yet this _Soule_ (made good by God at first,[110] And not corrupted by the bodie's ill) Euen in the wombe is sinfull, and accurst, Ere shee can _iudge_ by _wit_ or _chuse_ by _will_.[111] [Footnote 110: By an unhappy oversight, the whole of this stanza is dropped out of 1697 edition: and thence, by Davies, and generally. G.] [Footnote 111: Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'ill.' G.] Yet is not God the Author of her sinne Though Author of her _being_, and _being there_; And if we dare to iudge our _Iudge_ herein,[112] He can condemne vs, and Himselfe can cleare. [Footnote 112: Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'Maker's will.' G.] First, God from infinite eternitie _Decreed_, what _hath beene_, _is_, or _shall bee_ done; And was resolu'd, that euery man should bee, And in his turne, his race of life should run: And so did purpose all the _soules_ to make, That euer _have beene_ made, or _euer shall_; And that their _being_ they should onely take In humane bodies, or not _bee_ at all. Was it then fit that such a weake euent (_W[e]aknesse it selfe_,--the sinne and fall of Man) His counsel's execution should preuent, Decreed and fixt before the World began? Or that one _penall law_ by _Adam_ broke, Should make God breake His owne _eternall Law_; The setled order of the World reuoke, And change all forms of things, which He foresaw? Could _Eue's_ weake hand, extended to the tree, In sunder rend that _adamantine chaine_, Whose golden links, _effects_ and causes be, And which to God's owne chair doth fixt remaine.[113]