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A51412	The spirit of man, or, Some meditations (by way of essay) on the sense of that scripture, 1 Thes. 1:23 ... by Charles Morton ...	Morton, Charles, 1627-1698.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2825; ESTC R31044	42,571	116

but to confound it with Body in the business of Sanctification and Preservation here spoken of These three forementioned Interpretations I ●ill not Absolutely deny nor Contend with their Authors about them Because they all agree well enough in the General Scope of the place which is be sure that all that is In Man be sancti●yed to God However any one part be Distingui●hed from the other Yet I am apt to think that a more Proper Interpretation may be found which will give a more F●ll and 〈◊〉 sense to the place then is ●ually a●●ribed to it For the Enquiry after this we shall consider to what things the Name of Spirit i● given in Scripture besides those before men●ioned And this I finde to be to some things Out of Man and some things In Man 1 Out of Man the Word Spirit is ascribed bo●h to God and Creatures 1. To God both Essential and Personal 1. Essential as in Iob. 4. 24 God is a Spirit and they that worship him c. Not that Spirit is an Univocal Genus of God and any of his Creatures for then there would be a Common Nature but there is Infinite Distance between them Only because Spirit i● the Name of the most Noble Created Nature we Ascribe it also to God by Anal●gie for that we have no better Name to give him 2. Perso●al the Third in the Blessed Trinity under the Tide of the H●ly Ghost or Spirit the Spirit of the Lord of Iesus c. But ●his is not OUR Spirit nor is he to be Sanctified ●r Preserved and so cannot be here meant 2. To Angels both Good and Bad but Bad Angels cannot be Sanctified and Good need no Prayers in this Respect Nor can they be called OUR Spirits unless by Assignation of particular Guardia● Angels to particular men which whatever were the Opinion of some Jews and Gentiles of old I know no ground to Believe This of the Spirit Out of Man 2. In Man the Spirit is that wh●ch belongs to a man in a proper and natural sense and of this kind there seem to be four distinct Significations of the word Such as 1. When taken for the Soul the forma hominis Resigned up to God in Death So I understand David Psa. 31. 5. Unto thee O Lord I commit my Spirit however men deal with my Body And this the rather because Christ at his Death using the same words must needs be so understood Luk. 23. 46. Agreeable to Eccles. 12. 7. The Spirit returns to God who gave it And in the same sense also Ch. 11. 5. Thou knowest not the way of the Spirit nor how the Bones grow in the womb That is as I take it Thou understandest not how the Soul doth form the Body as an Habitation for it self 'T is the Inward part of man so the Exegesis seems very plain in that Isa. 26. 9. With my Sou● have I desired thee in the night yea with my Spirit within me will I seek thee early i. e. with my inward man I have and will apply my self to thee from whence arises a Tropical sense of Spirit namely to signifie Sincerity God is my witness whom I Serve in my Spirit in the Gospel Rom. 1. 9. 2 Spirit is taken for the Life or Union of Soul and Body or Souls being in the State of Union So I understand Iob. 10. 12. thou hast granted me Life and thy visitation hath preserved my Spirit namely to continue in and with my Body And ch 34. 14. 15 If God gather to himself mans spirit and his breath all flesh shall perish to gether and man shall turn again unto Dust. Thus t is said of the Damsel whom our Saviour Raysed to Life Her Spirit came again and she arose Luk 8. 55. came again ie to be again United to her Body We Read Ecl. 3. 21. of the Spirit of a man that goes upwards and the Spirit of a beast that goeth Downwards If the Spirit in both parts be understood in the same sense as most likely it is then either Brutes have proper Spirits which many are loath to admit or the Spirit of man must signifie but the Life which is all if not more then some will allow to Beasts Again Chap. 8. 8. No man hath power over the Spirit to Retain the Spirit in the Day of Death i. e. No man is M●ster of his own Life to prolong it To the same purpose is that Expression in Hezekiahs Prayer Isa. 38. 16. O Lord by these things men Live and in all these things is the Life of my Spirit so wilt thou Recover me and make me to Live He me●ns not by the Life of his Spirit the continued Duration of his Ever-living Soul but the continuance of its Union with the Body whereby the Li●e of his person should be prolonged The Spirit in this sense taken may indeed be Sanctified The Life may be Devoted unto God according to that of the Apostle Rom 14. 8. Whether we Live we Live unto the Lord or Wh●ther we Dye c. But this I think is not the direct meaning of the Spirit in our Text. 3. Spirit is taken for some special Faculties or particular Acts of the mind such as 1. Understanding Prov. 20. 27. The Spirit of a man is the Candle of the Lord searching all the Inward Parts of the Belly not in an Anatomical but Moral Sense The Understanding is set up by God in man as a Candle to search and find out by its Exercise all those Inward Acts and Inclinations which would othe●wise lie hidden and undiscovered So that Isa. 29. 24 They that Erred in Spirit shall come to Understanding and they that Murmured shall Learn Doctrine That is they that had misapprehensions of Me and my Ways shall come to Understanding not the Faculty but the Rectitude thereof and they that Murmured whose Wills were averse to embrace Truth shall be graciously Inclined to Learn that which is Right 2. The Fancy or Imagination is sometimes to be understood by Spirit Ezek. 13. 3. Wo unto the Foolish Prophets that follow their own Spirit and have seen nothing or that walk after the things which they have not seen as in orig which God hath not Revealed to them but they have fabricated to themselves out of their Evil Hearts and Foolish Fancies or Imaginations 3. The Spirit is also taken for the Thoughts upon or Remembring of some person or thing Thus the Apostle Expresses his Thinking of the Corinthians I Cor. 5. 3. I verily as absent in Body but present in Spirit have judged already as tho' I were present concerning him that hath done this Deed. He thought of them and their Affairs tho' at a distance from them So of the Colossians Chap. 2. 5. Tho' I he absent in the Flesh yet am I with you in the Spirit Ioying and Beholding your order and the stedfastness of your Faith in Christ. He Rejoyced to behold their Graces by the eye of his mind his Cogitations

they were against God yet against their Enemies they were very Cowards or God in Justice made them so for their Stubborness against him The Children of Ephraim being Armed and carrying Bows turned back in the day of Battel But If Sanctified 't is an Excellent Spirit and of great use This was that other Spirit of Caleb Numb 14. 24. The Spirit of the other Spies was Base and Cowardly and caused the heart of the People to melt Iosh. 18. 8. at which God was greatly displeased but Calebs courage was approved and accepted of God tho' it had not its desired effect upon men and was Rewarded with admission into the Land of Promise when others were excluded This Spirit Sanctified is a Spirit Bound Bent and Resolved in the service of God what-ever be the Hazards And now bohold says Paul I go bound in the Spirit to Ierusalem not knowing the particular things that shall befal me there Act 20. 22. saving Bonds and Afflictions in general which I expect v. 23. But none of these things move me v. 24. Now this Bound Spirit I take to be the Apostles Brave Spirit Bound that is strongly inclined by the Spirit of God to this special and particular Service notwithstanding all these foreseen difficulties to break thorow which he was Gallantly Resolved And this his Courage is I think the same that he prays might be given to the Ephesiaus chap. 3. 16. That he would grant you according to the Riches of his Glory to be strengthned with might by his Spirit in the Inner Man This referrs to v. 13 I desire that ye faint not at my Tribulations for you Some men are so Weak Spi●ited as to faint when they see another Bleed or have a grievous Wound dressed or the like But I would not have you to be so Feeble-Minded I would have you more Couragious and for that end make this prayer on your behalf I should rather shrink that feel the trouble then you that only behold it with your eyes Such another Brave Spirit was in Nehemiah when God had raised it up See a taste of it Neh. 6 11. Should such a Man as I Fly And who is there being as I am would go into the Temple to save his Life I will not go in This Gallantry was of the Lord for whatever his Naturl Spirit was His Captive circumstances had rendred him but weak as we may Guess by his Timorousness to speak to the King tho' he was in good place about him He continually fetch'd his strength from God He was fain by Ejaculation to pray between a Question and an Answer chap. 2. 4. What is thy Request So I Prayed And I said c. He had not Courage to give the King an answer till he had his Spi●its Revived by the God of Heaven 4. This Hotter Spirit is an Angry Spiri● is Ardent and Fervent in it sel● Eage● and Vigorous in motion with a vehemence in Inclinations all which may be better Referred to this head then that of Activity before mentioned Its chief ingredient is Chollerick Constitution tho' it may be also Habitually encreased and Morally Fixt in men by frequent occasions and provocations as also by much converse with peevish and fretful persons this is intimated in that Prov. 22. 24. 25 Make no friendship with an angry man with a furious man thou shalt not go Lest thou Learn his ways and get a snare to thy Soul His anger will by degrees heat thy Spirit into a Disorder or at least bring it into another frame then to what thou art naturally inclined This Spirit Acts and shews it self in ZEAL and IEALOUSY 1. Zeal is a Fervour of Spirit whereby a man does Act Valide Valde All that comes to his hand he presently does it with his Might Here Anger is Cos Fortitudinis the Whetstone of Valour And tho' Courage hath it● Strength in it self yet it commonly ha● the beginning and more often the continuance of its motion from this Zeal This is as the Touch-Powder that catches the first Fire and as soon inflames that which has all the force in it T is a Natural Passion and therefore in it self neither Good nor Bad. But if 1. Unsanctifyed 't is a Hellish Flame that burns unmercifully and does abundance of Hurt to ones self and others 'T is KAKOZELIA a mischievous vehemence that spoyles the comfort of Humane Society and if it be any way concern'd in Religion it m●kes Havock of the Church as is seen in the Bigots of a false Religi●n An eminent example of which was Paul while he was Saul before his Conversion to the true Faith They shall kill you and think they do God good Service Iohn 16 2 In a word it renders men like the Chaldeans Bitter Hasty Habbac 1. 6. 2. But if Sanctified then the Warm-Spi●ited Paul is another Man He now re●lects on his former course as a Mad Hare Brain●d Wicked Business See the Account of it Acts 26. 9 10 11. I verily thought His Hot Head mistook his way and so ran on furiously in a Perni●ious Error That I ought Divilism is now taken for Duty to do many things contrary c. Many not a few were s●itable to his Hot and Active Spi●its many places Ierusa●em every Synagogue even to s●range Cities many Persons Many of the Saints Many Ways did I shut up in Prison put to Death and compelled them to Blaspheme yea when he was but a St●ipling when he could not hu●ll Mortifying S●●nes he gave his voice against them Held the Garments of those that Stoned Stephen and was consenting to his Death All this he acknowledges to be meer madness being exceeding mad against them But being now Converted Does his Grace quite extinguish his Fi●ry Nature Spirit Not at all only directs exerts it to better purposes Paul is the same Zealot but in other matters His Active Spirit Labours more abundantly then they all 1 Cor. 15. 10. Zeal he commends exhorts and practises He commends Zeal in his Epistles if it be rightly placed 'T is always good to be Zealous in a good thing Gal. 4. 18. To be Zealous of Spiritual Gists 1 Cor. 14. 12. of Good Works Titus 2. 14. He also exhorts men to be Fervent in Spirit Serving the Lord. Romans 12. 11. And he Allowed and Practised it in himself of which we have Divers Instances Take a view of his Hot and Earnest Spirit in some particulars At Athens his Spirit was stirred in him when he saw the City wholly given to Idolatry Acts 17. 16 't was full of Gods without the True God and he was angry and vext to see it So in Corinth at the Jews Infidelity He was pressed in Spirit and Testi●ied that Jesus was the Christ. chap. 18. 5. Now when was this 'T was when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia He had a good mind to it before even when he was a poor Labouring Sojourner v. 3. Even then he Reasoned and perswaded every