Of an everlasting Body, the time is only from the Generation. Dissolvable Bodies are increased and diminished, 64. The Generation of Man is Corruption, the Corruption of Man is the beginning of Generation. That which off-springs or begetteth another, is itself an offspring or begotten by another. Of things that are, some are in Bodies, some in their Ideas.
Whatsoever things belong to operation or working, are in a Body.
That which is immortal, partakes not of that which is mortal. Operations or Workings are not carried upwards, but descend downwards. Things upon Earth do nothing advantage those in Heaven, but all things in Heaven do profit and advantage the things upon Earth. Heaven is capable and a fit receptacle of everlasting Bodies, the Earth of corruptible Bodies. The Earth is brutish, the Heaven is reasonable or rational.