-------------------------------------------------- ' IDeatf)s ~rreft. 393 ------ ~ --------------------------~. ------------~- /load ;;, ~'•) God only gives the Elfen~c,but to exill: comes from the Parents. What is ~he foul but a forme of the body ? and of what body,_ b_ut of that whrch rs organlCal,_ as Ariff deanim.,: b · g pt for the Ju~tl ( This aptnelfe then whereby rt rs prepared for the forme, bemg I, 2. ' ' 1 ern ~d from the Parents, we may fay of the/oul, that thus it is generated, as not ~cc~/r~ning to fubfifr before the body is prrparcd, This is truein fomc fort, though not ··~per!y. Confider then the excellency of mansfo~<l, whrch IS not born, but cr<ated,] ~~d howfocver now it is beljottcd with fin, yet was it then pnre and undefiled, as the untouched virgin:how is it but pure,wh1ch the hands ofGod have made?tt was the devrl that caufcd fin,but all that God made was good,and vcry_g_ood,Gen._I. 3r, and fuch a foul h 1 th every man. It is created by God,mfufed by hrs Sptrtt,of nothmg made fomethmg, Gen. • 31. ahJ what fomethirtg, but an. excellent work,_~efitting fuch an excellent workman. ~;f,'~";,{~~:a; And yet there be more lbtrcs to afccnd: 1t IS tlurdly mvijibic.] -Hath an'j man feen / , G od' Or hath any man feen Gods image (which is thefoul) an.d lived? Subll:arces vent · that ~re more pure are ldfe vifible. W_e fee b~t darkly througha glalfe, ~ay, the bell: eye upon earth looks but through a lattice, a wmdow, an obfcunng unped1ment; mortal eyes cannot behold immurtal things ; how then fhould this corruptible fight, f~e a Spirimalfonl? The object is too clear for our weak eyes, our eyes are but earthly, the -~ the fun! of an heavenly nature. 0 divine being! not only he~venly, but heaven it felf: as God and man met both in Chrifr, ·ro heaven and earth met both in mln: would you fee this earth? That is the body, Out of it waft thou ta~~' and into it muft thon retum, Gen 4· 19. Vilould you fee this heaven? That IS, Gen.4. '9· the foul, the God of heaven gave it, ~nd to the God of heaven returns i·t, Ecclef. 12. 7· The body is but a lump, but the foul is that breath oflife : of earth came the body, of Eccle[. 12 • 7· God was the foul: thus earth and heaven met in the creation, and the man 1vas made a 2 /h;ing foul, Gen. l. 7·. TheJan£1-tfied foul is an heaven upon earth,where the Sun .is_under- ~ft~ttitt~· Jla"ding, the Moone "far.rh, and the Stars grac.orts ajfc£hons:. what heaven IS m tha.t [an[/a anima, body, which lives and moves by fuch a foul? yet fo wondcrful1s ·Gods mercy to man- habm [olem kinde, that as reafon cloth potfelfe the [!ul, fo the foul mull: polfeffc this body. Here tnrelle~um,lu· is that union of things viliblc, and invilible: as the light is fpiritual, incorruptible, in- "j,~! :;:;"'": divilible, and fo united to the airc, that of thefe two is made one, 'without confufion ~era. rupcr of either; in like manner is the ford united to this body, one together, dillinguifhed a- Caor. funder: only here's the difference, the light is moll: vifible, the foul is invifible, fhe is the breath of God, the beauty of man, the wonder of Angels, the envy ofdevils, that immortal fplendor which never eye hath feen, never eye mull: fee. And yet we mull: up another llep, it is fourthly incorporeal,] as not feen with a mor– tal eye, fo neither clogg'd with a bodily fhape ; I fay not but thefoul hatha body fo~ his organ, to which it is fo knit and tyed, that they cannot be fevered without muc~ forrow or llrugling; yet is it not a body, but a fpirit dwelling in it : the body is an houfe, and thefoul the inhabitant: every one knows the houfe is not the inhabitant, and yet (0wonder!) there is no room in the houfe, \\rherc the inhabitant lives not; would you pleafc to, fee the roomes ? The eye is .hrr JVindow, the head is her tower . the heart is her clofet, the momh is her h,/1, the lungs her prefmcc-chamber, the fenfes he~ cmq#eportslhe 'common fenfe her cuftome-houfe,the phantajie he~· mint_, the memory her trea– jiery, the lips are her two-leav'd doores, that flmt and open, and all thefe, ttnd all the reft~ (as the m~t<ons :n a W4tch,) are a£/ed and ?ltoved by this [Fring, the Soul. Sec here a compofit1on '.'llth\lut co~fulion, th~foul is in the body, yet it is not bodily: as in the greatefl: world the earth IS more fohd, the water Lelfe, the air yet Lell'er, the fire leall ofall: fo in this little world of man, the meaner parts a~e of groffer 'fubfbnce, and the foul by how much more excellent, by fo much more Spiritual . and wholly withdrawn from all bodily being. ' . And y~t a little high·er, it is fifthly immortal.] It was the Errour ofmany Fathers sc.lig. ""~. That bod1es and foul~ mull: both die till Doomef-day, and then the bodies being raifed: in Nov. T<ft• the fouls muft be revrved. Were that true, why then cryes Stephen, LordJijit, recewe my Spmt? Or why fhould Paul be dij[olved, th~t he might be With Chr·ift? Blef- Alls 1 , 19 , fed men are but men, and therefore no wonder if fubjeCl: to fome Errour. Others fhil, r. 23 ., more abfolutely deny the fouls immortality, We are borne (fay they) at all adventures 4ndlvejhall behe;Mfter, rts thottgh wehadneverbeen; (Whyfo?)for the breath is; Ji:mk.fm our nofinis, and the words as a fp.trk_ raifed om of onr hearts, which being ex- , tmgrsijhed, the body "tumed :mo ajhes, and theJpmt v11ni}heth as[oft aire. What, is Wr[d·> .>, 3· thef•ul a fnaoke? And the Spmt no better than the foft vanifhin~ alre? wretched men! E ee Ha'l!<
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