per Nature by the privation of the other.
22. So if these Two be confessed, That which maketh, and that which is made, then they are One in Union, this going before, and that following.
23. And that which goeth before, is, God the Maker; and that which follows, is, that which is made, be it what it will.
24. And let no man be afraid, because of the variety of things that are made or done, lest he should cast an aspersion of baseness, or infamy upon God; for it is the onely Glory of him to do, or make All things.
25. And this making, or facture, is as it were the Body of God; and to him that maketh, or doth, there is nothing evil, or filthy to be imputed, or there is nothing thought evil, or filthy.
26. For these are Passions that follow Generation, as Rust doth Copper, or as Excrements do the Body.
27. But neither did the Copper-
