- !8 t:Jhe .confirming lF"ork and to have a difl:intl Interefi, both in - its Griefs.and Comfo!ts. , Ill. That it can have no Dependence on .the Body in its Being, . which cloth no\vay depend thereon in its Affings and Exerci~e ; put is of~ mofi: vjgorous and clear, ll1 ItS Exerctfe, not only when _moft feparate and abftract frotn fenfible· ·Things, but when the Flefh is under the greateft Decay, and near its Difiolution ; to fhew the Soul li~th not -a dyit)g with the Body, but hatli its diftincl: Subfift– ence, to livein a feparate State w-hen it dies, - . IV. Its- being peculiarly. fram~cr- for · _ Converfe, and Intercourfe w1th l ptrltual / Beings, .yea·, .its being the ot11y Part of the vifible Creation admitted to Fellow· fhip with the invifiole GOD, and to have ~. reflex A.~S upon !tfelf. V. It is a Being Df a .higher' Nature ·and Value, than the Sun, Moon, and < St~rs ; whieh not ,only can know, and ,– ~conceive of Things above the Evidence and Impreffions of Senfe, but makes a _Jational Choice of Good, (tho' cro.fs. to ·"bny fenfual Pleafure; ) yea, to reJoice, and have its proper Delights, when th,e Boqy is affliCted ·and in pain; · nor can it · _be ' \
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