That Souls from Souls, spiritually may spring;

Which (if the nature of the Soul be tried)

Will even, in Nature, prove as gross a thing.

Reasons derived from Nature.

For all things made, are either made of nought,

Or made of stuff that ready made doth stand:

Of nought, no creature ever formed ought,

For that is proper to th'Almighty's hand.

If then the Soul, another soul do make;

Because her power is kept within a bound,