Chap 3.' An Expofitionupon the Bookof J 0 B. Verf:r 3. 405 Soul fees, and the Soul hears, the Soul devifeth, and the Soul ctif- courfeth, the Soul grieves,and the Soul rejoyceth, the Soul hopes, and the Soul fears, the Soul eleaeth, and the Soul refufeth : All this the Soul doth in dreams and vifìons of the night , when deep deep falls upon man. So alto in extafies and ravifliments, the Body is as it were layd by, as :Adds and uríinftrurnental to the Soul./ knew a mass inGhrift aboutfourteenyears rigo,(fo the Apoftle- Paul faith) whether in the body, I cannot tell, or cut of the body, I cannot tell, Godkìeoweth, 2 Go'''. 12. 2. As if he had faid, I was loftas to mybody, I-could not tell what I was, I did not feel my felt; yet he had mightyoperations in his foul, his fpirit wrought llrangely and then took in fuch Revelations ofGod and from God, as his bodily organs could never fafnion into words, or re prefent by fpeecli : Reheard * nnfpeakable words, which it is nt,t.* aie fando- - (a)lawful (or po(fible) for man toutter. The Soul hath an car tó expticortaquo- hear fuch words as theBody cannot finde a tongue to exprcís. Sa quart bonito- non the Apoflle. Johnin his - divine ravifhments, I was in the Spirit ttp záq/fuur on the Lords day.. As for his Body , that was, as to that bufinefs, at nub làyd by 'and fufpended as ufelefs in that day; -and his fpirit called vi ne 8,17)fi0- up to that angelical work , the receivingofVifions and Revelati- rum quidem ons from ,9n. high. And among other things whichJohn law, he pele,expiieari, faív under the Altar the, Souls of,them that had been (lain , for the nemre quia di' vinc.m WordofGod, andfor the teftirnony which they held ; Thefe Souls rensir ef elxpriua were not afleep, though their Bodies were, for- they..cryed wïth:a Cat Ctemens loud voyce, Paying, ,How long, 0 Lard, holy and true, daft thou not Alex.--,,,tram., judg and avenge our blood? &c, Rev.6.9,ro. From all thefe Texts-$ L'ez:r, and experiences we may conclude, that the Soul wakes while the _B_ody sleeps that fleep of death. And the death-of the Body is called a fleep, Firll, Becaufe as fleep, fo death brings the bóáÿ to refi, as wäs obferved in the former point. Secondly, Natural fleep is not perpetual, we fleep andwake a- gain; fo though the bodylie in the grave,yet death is but a fleep,. the man than awake and rife again. Thirdly, Asa-body afleep can eafïly be awaked and called up by the power of fo the body when it is dead, can with infinite- ly more cafe be raifed by the power ofGo -d : It is out a call feom Beaven,and weawakenout of the duff. God can beyond all corn- parifon moreeäf- yawaken us from_that dead fleep ofdeath, then we can awaken one another from the lightefi:!lumber. -- T laére' .
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