what it hath it must have from flesh and blood which is corruption or from the father it is in a state of death and all it hath is under the same before Christ hath raised it 1 Cor. 15.40 Flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdome of God 1 By Kingdom of God here is meant the Church as it doth comprehend the dispensations of the spirit within and of Christ in the Church Discipline without 2 By flesh as before is meant the body 3 By blood the soule of the naturall man 4 By these untill the spirit be quickened no man on earâ—â— can lay claime to the Kingdome of God but is by the institution of God debarred it and therefore faith one of the fruits of the spirit in those are quickened is said to be that by which men were admitted to the Kingdome Gal. 1.16 I consulted not with flesh and blood 1 I In his spirit now quickened when the Adam had no power over it to restrain it 2 This power is so far by the quickening of the spirit destroyed in him as that he immediately consults not with it but discovers it to be an enemy to Christ and his own felicity 3 By flesh and blood is meant his soul and body who had before conspired so together against the Lord and his truth 4 The revealâ—ng of Christ in him was the raising of his spirit from that death it lay in as it was said of Christ he was revealed to be the Son of God by his raising from the dead which in us is called the power of his resurrection Phil. 3.10 2 Cor. 5.16 We know no man according to the flesh 1 For blood it is said clearly God hath made all men of one blood hence the prohibition in marriages did arise to prevent its confusion A thing of speciall note 2 The flesh which is of a more externall concernment 1 He shews one man is not better according to the flesh then an other nor fitter for the Kingdome 2 It is prohibited by any prerogative it can have of the Kingdome 3 That it were the gifts of God not the inward endowments of nature or the outward beauty of the body was in the administrations of the Gospell to be respected Heb. 2.14 For as much as the Children are partakers of flesh and blood be also himselfe tooke part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death 1 By flesh and blood the natural mans body and soule are in this place set out of which Christ was a real partaker being made like to us in all things sin only excepted 2 As far as Christ was flesh and blood he suffered death 3 By this death of his he destroyed him that had the power of death which is the Devill which death was the pouring out of his soule to death 4 Without the right understanding in what and how Christ died no true nor right use of his death can be made The understanding of flesh and blood in this sence opens many hid Truths 1 That when the spirit of God names the body the soule is usually added to it when flesh then blood sets out the soule 2 As flesh and blood are together so soule and body are as appears in the Scripture dialect Note Moses sprinkling the people with the blood of the beasts called the blood of the Covenant sprinkled them with the soule of the beasts and the blood of the new Covenant is the blood of the soule of Christ though not the soule 1 Cor. 11.27 He is guilty of the body and blood of Christ 1 If by blood be meant the soul how necessary is the cup Christ gave not his flesh but blood also how doe the Papists abuse poor men in keeping it away 2 If by the blood be meant in the Scripture the soul multitudes of Scripture are not yet understood but in a carnal sence which wil spiritually in glory appear on their manifestation 3 Luk. 13.1 Pilats sin namely in mixing mans blood with the blood of the beasts which hee sacrificed to Satan aggravates the sinne 4 If the body comprehends the blood or the blood be spoke of as of the body only why are they thus distinguished in a word it is to set forth the Lords death who dyed in soul as well as body Job 2.4 All that a man hath will be give for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his soule ver 6. He is in thy hand but spare his soule And this agrees with that of Christ What shall a man give in exchange of his soule Acts 20.24 I account not my soule dear to my selfe 1 The regenerate part speaks the spirit which was above the soul 2 It speaks its esteem of his soule 3 On what account it speaks so it would not speak so upon any other occasion whatsoever Ezek. 18.20 The soule that sinneth it shall dye Orig. 13 Tom. on John pag. 191. 1 The spirit dyed in Adam in Adam all die by that which is called Original sin 2 The soule that lives by another life in the body and is under the law Morall the transgressions whereof were death so that â—ere is intended the Lords mediate punishing of man with death by the Magistrate or else immediate by himselfe In V. 3. Ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb the Fathers have eate sowre grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge 1 This proverb was true in the spirits death by that sin is called originall in Adam 2 God saith it should be so no more 3 Now the next death is of the soule to which in the after Scripture he only alludes Ver. 4. All soules are mine as the soule of the Father so of the Son the soule that sinneth it shall dye 4 No soule by justice dyeth but for breach of the moral Law â—â—one which is properly its by act not imputation 5 It is clear each man hath a particular soul as well as spirit or â—ody if any two bodies had one soule it were the Father and â—on which the word doth say are distinct 6 If yee understand by death eternal death only then yee make void the Law of God 7 There is a notable distinction used by the Apostle 1 Cor. 6.18 Fornication is sin unto the body of all other sin and James sin ariseth from lust 1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh is grasse and all the glory of man as the flower of the grasse the grasse withereth and the flower thereof falleth 1 The body is the flesh the grasse 2 The soule the flower and glory of man 3 As the grasse withereth the flower falleth 4 The end of the one and the other seem to differ as they differ in themselves but fade and fall together 5 The grasse and flower are of one nature and subject to change though differing in their forme and beauty Object 1. 1 Pet. 4.19 Commit the keeping of their soules to him in well doing Hence men are to commit their soules
be uttered Ver. 27. He that searcheth the heart knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit because he makes intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Note Where by the Spirit and Spirit it selfe the Spirit of Christ sent forth of God into the hearts of Saints be not intended is commended to your judgements to consider of or where the Spirit the Holy 1 Because here is no especial epithite to it as usually given to God the Spirit 2 It is the spirit of intercession which is the Spirit of Christ stirring up in us sighs and groans as in him 3 Bearing our infirmities which is done by Christ as man Heb. 4.15 and c. 5 2. Act. 9 4. 4 God the searcher of the heart is put as distinct from the Spirit of Christ in the heart who is said to intercede according to the Will of God 5 This Spirit is not ours as it is not Gods for saith he Wee know not what we should pray for as we ought whereby we is meant the whole regenerate man who without Christs Spirit assist him in prayer knows not how to pray nor for what to pray as he ought Appli If this be truth the Doctrine taught makes Christ void and in him God is put off from us because none can come to the Father but by him Illust. To set before your eyes the spirits resurrection see it fulfilled in Cyrus a heathen lying under a dead spirit when quickened works wonderfull things Hag. 1.15 2 Chron. 36.22 he is not that man he was before The excellency of Christs Spirits operation in the Elect is wonderful and precious 1 The Spirit of life in Jesus Christ gave the new Law or Covenant as Moses the Mediator of the Old gave that by which we are freed from Moses Law called the Law of sin and death Rom. 8.2 2 It is called the Law of the spirit of life 1 None being under this Law untill quickened by the Spirit of life but were under the law of death 2 It is the law of the spirit of life in which those made alive must walk in and live under it as its Law as Moses Disciples under its 3 This Law was for the spirit to walke with God in when men are said to walk in the spirit and live in the spirit when men are onely said to please God 4 That this is meant of ours and Christs Spirit because opposed to the flesh which cannot walke in this Law Rom. 8.8 Note It is one means by which the Spirit of Christ is distinguished from God the Spirit is that which commeth by hearing Gal. 3.2 5. which differs far from that Act. 10.44 called the Holy Ghost said to fall on them having the gift of tongues The Spirit of God after is given for confirmation of such as doe beleeve Eph. 4.30 and manifested it selfe in dreams visions tongues discerning of spirits prophesie The Spirit of Christ worketh faith love desires Gal. 5.22 which Origen would have to be meant of the regenerate man 's own Spirit which indeed is a fruit of the Spirit of Christ in us for of our selves we are not able to think a good thought It is Christ that worketh all in all Illust Act. 8.12 People of Samaria Beleeved Phillip which was the act of the spirit of Christ in them who yet ver 16. are said none of them to have received the Holy Ghost though by the first the Spirit of Christ they were baptized and so said to be Christs ver 16. after which ver 17. they were established having the Holy Spirit powred out upon them by the laying on of hands by the Apostle the one is mediately by hearing given men the other since the Apostles daies immediately of God 1 To this being of Christ in his Spirit in the Saints the Apostle eminently alludes saying Christ in you is the hope of glory as Col. 1.27 now if he have the Spirit of God in him God is in him if of Christ Christ is in him 2 By the Spirit of Christ before he hath the Spirit of God in him he hath the hope of glory but not the seale of glory which distinguisheth the spirits in their distinct operations 3 Thus the Apostle 2 Cor. 13.3 Since yee seeke a proofe of Christ speaking in me which to you ward is not weak but is mighty in you Ver. 5. Know you not Jesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates Rom. 8.9 10. If any have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his And if Christ be in you that is by his Spirit as before the body is dead because of sinne but the spirit that is mans spirit is life being quickened because of righteousnesse Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me the life that I now live is by faith in the Son of God which comes by hearing and is an effect of the Spirit of Christ sent out of God the Spirit as well as Father unto the heart of sons Ephes 3.17 Christ lives in the heart by faith 4 The use of this spirit is hinted at Phil. 1.19 This shall turn to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Act. 16.7 Some translations read The Spirit of Jesus suffered them not 5. Joh. 3.5 Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Here by Spirit I understand the Spirit of Christ by which he is one Spirit with the Lord and grafted unto him by baptisme Reas 1. It is not said the Holy Spirit but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Spirit only as before 2. Ver. 12. In this saying Christ tels them he told them of earthly things it being to be done by the quickening Spirit of Christs humanity assisted thereunto by his divine power 3 Hence it is the Scripture saith he that is in Christ is a new creature 4. Vers 6. That is born of the Spirit signifies that regeneration is by Christs Spirit onely not of our Spirits The Spirit of Christ working Faith and Obedience to Christ in Baptisme in which is regeneration Application 1. Men are taught that there is no other Spirit but God the Spirit who worketh these and all that have any of these have the gift of the Spirit of God 2 The Spirit of Christ which worketh these is not known men oppose against it and deny it to be who yet would be Christians 3 Hence as Christ said to his Disciples so the men of this age know not what spirits they are of that have the Spirit of Christ in them and not the Spirit of God 4 Few men have the Spirit of God and they that have it have it in a hidden way which is by dreams and visions being all that as I know of as yet accompanies the gift of the Spirit of God in these daies to which I might say something or may do when
again corrects with a yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God Note in this to the full is opened that Joh. 5.17 My Father workes hereunto and I worke Vers 19. The Son can do nothing of himselfe but what he seeth the Father do whatever he doth those things also doth the Son Vers 21. As the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will Vers 26. As the Father hath life in himselfe so hath he given to the Sonne to have life in himselfe that was in the Spirit of his mind Hence he laid down his life and had power to take it again Note Moses had not the lesse of the Spirit by what the seventy had nor Christ by what the elect have the fountaine is ever full Illust If as in 2 Chron. 18.20 21. one spirit is a lying spirit in the mouth of all Ahabs Prophets how much more shall the Spirit of Christ be in and direct all the elect of God Object That was an Angelicall Spirit Resp The spirit of man was of an Angelical nature having no flesh nor bones yea if the Angels were created ex prima materia as most hold it may be of a more excellent nature then they being breathed of God into man by which man is called the off-spring of God 2 The Spirit of Christ as joyned to the Spirit of God and sent out of God into the hearts of his Elect by far exceeds the Angels who have their dependance on him as on their head in the power and way he hath of communicating it selfe to men 3 By this God makes the Spirit of the Man Christ with his soul and body to be a root a second Adam by which beleevers receive life in spirit from him as death from Adam without Gods assistance the Spirit of Christ cannot be in mine nor work on mine at all Objections made by Mr. 1 That soul and spirit were expressed exegeticos and that they are but one though they had two names Resp That to maintain these two to be one against the expresse word of God 1 Thes 5.23 Heb. 4.12 John 12.10 is heresie Luk. i. 46.47 and Luk. 23.46 with Act. 2.3 Obj. Offering the testimony of Luk. 1.46 47. he said That whereas it was read my soule and my spirit it may be read my soul my soule Resp To put down soule for spirit the word soule being before was to take away from the Word of God and to be liable to the curse of God yea to be accursed though an Angel Object The spirit of man is the Spirit of God Resp Was My that that was blasphemy because God the Spirit is said to be one with the created spirit of man sinfull filthy dead I confesse in hast I said that the Spirit Rom. 8.1 was the Spirit of God which is meant the spirit of man quickened by Christ Quest What the distinct difference was between the spirit and soul of man Resp Solomon Eccles 3.21 who knoweth the spirit of a man with whose death the knowledge of it dyed also 2 Yet a more apparent difference to distinguish them cannot be then this that the one the spirit hath its being imediately from God Eccles 12.7 the other the soule from man Exod. 1.5 Gen. 46.24 Heb. 7.10 3 They in the dissolution of the fabrick of Man are distinguished the spirit returning to God the soule to the grave Note So that to affirm soule and spirit to be one I declared to be false doctrine and the Teachers false Teachers that taught it Object Gen. 2.8 God breathed into man the breath of life Man therefore had but one life which was his soul life Resp The word is corruptly translated it is not life but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lives and so the spirit life is comprehended under the same word Object After it is said and man became a living soul therefore man had no other but a soule in him Resp The words are thus to be read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Adam the body was for the living soule which had but one of the lives the body being to the soule especially it being near to it partaking with it in eating drinking suffering c. which the spirit doth not but is of a more sublime and excellent nature 1 The soule comes from man with the body in its beginning 2 It goeth to the grave with the body in its ending 3 It is not said the Adam was for the souls life as before Quest Matth. 22.27 Mark 12.30 Luk. 10.27 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soule with all thy mind with all thy strength which is the body which the soule which the spirit Resp 1. The Question is propounded concerning a command of the law which command was given after mans fall by sin and the spirits death 2 The commands were given the fleshy part of man whence it is said by the Law no flesh living can be justified Ezek. 20.18 Rom. 8.3 Rom. 3.20 3 Hence for the spirit of man it could have no releife by the Law Gal. 3.21 it could not make alive that is the dead spirit as Christ was to do 1 Cor. 15.45 4. Rom. 3.19 What the Law speaks it speaks to them under the Law 1 The spirit when alive it was not under any dominion of the Law man then was a law to himselfe he needed none nor was any given untill two thousand years after mans fall 2 When it was dead it was under none for Rom. 7.1 The Law hath dominion over a man onely whiles alive not when dead therefore Christ first quickeneth the spirits before he give them that Law 3 When the spirit is quickened by Christ it is dead to the Law of the flesh and freed and in subjection onely to the Law of the Spirit of life Rom. 2.8 distinguished Rom. 3.27 4 Here are not three parts but four Heart Mind Soule Strength 1 Which shews that the Spirit Soule and Body are not aimed at as in the other Scriptures 2 That here as the command was given the Naturall man the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the naturall mans parts of Heart and Soule Strength and Mind are intended and not the Spirit that was dead in man and was not capable of obedience or command Object The Law is spiritual Rom. 7.14 Resp The Law indeed is said to be spiritual but no where said to be a Law of the Spirit 2 The spirituality of the Law 1 Is in mentioning the Name of God and forbidding Idol-worship and injoyning the love of God 2 It is spiritual in condemning coveting 3 Yet see that God had a mind to the Soule and Body in these commands 1 Consider the preface I am the Lord thy God c. in which the deliverance of the soule and body not the spirit is mentioned 2 By this Law men were judged by the Magistrate to whom the soul was subjected not the spirit Rom. 13.1 3 Hence Ezek. 18.20 the soule is said to dye by and to be under this Law I proposed this to him 1 That no Scripture saith at death the soule returneth to God or goeth immediately to Heaven before the resurrection but that it goeth to the grave 2 That no Saint ever commended his soule to God at death but his spirit which is onely said to return to God that gave it and the Adam to the dust and earth Ap. If the Scripture saith in many places the soul goeth to the grave and in no place that it immediately goeth to God before the resurrection who shall assert it and not teach false Doctrine and not teach another Gospell 2 If the Scripture saith at the death of a man only the spirit goeth to God immediately for its judgement and yet men teach that we have no spirit or make soule and spirit one and confound those God hath distinguished To which I add this most weighty Query and Objection may be made Since that the spirit comes from God whether then it be polluted or not as it comes out of Gods hand Resp Adam sinning as a general person dyed not onely in his own spirit but brought death on the spirits of his whole race for in Adam all dye whose death was in spirit 2 Hence God giving the Spirit gives it not possessed of that spiritual life as he gave it to Adam in its first being but that it comes into man now deprived of his first life and excellency 3 That it is thus given dead appears in that as a remedy Christ by God is given to man as a quickening Spirit to restore and raise the dead spirit of man againe 4 As Adam so Christ is designed by grace a generall person for good to the Elect of God as Adam was by Justice for death to all 5 It is clear the spirits now created of men that the grace of God might abound are not in the capacity Adams was before but in that it was after its fall Obj. Some will cry out this is injustice in God for God to give men a dead spirit and unbeseeming God
4. It was the Spirit Christ breathed out and no more and the Spirit he was so careful of to commit to the hands of God and nothing else Mat. 27.50 Mark 15.37 Luke 23.46 all which Scriptures shew that nothing went forth of Christ at his death but his Spirit and as not out of him so not out of us Psal 76.13 78.39 104.29 Judg. 15.19 And thus Stephen Acts 7.59 Lord Jesus receive my spirit had his Soul then left his body he would have been as careful of the one as the other See 2 Cor. 5.6 the spirit is with the Lord the body dead 5. As the spirits of just men are immediate with God so unbeleevers return to God also and receive the sentence of condemnation and commitment to prison 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20. But quickned in the spirit by which he Christ went and preached to the spirit in prison that sometime were disobedient in the days of Noah 1. The spirits not Souls not bodies are in prison yea see Gen. 6.3 2. They are the spirits of those bodies were disobedient in the days of Noah at his preaching so that what men falsly attribute to the Soul is in truth by God in Scripture only said of the spirit 6. The spirit is to be raised by the Spirit of Christ not the Soul nor body John 6.63 The flesh profiteth nothing it is the spirit quickneth So that the delusion of the times takes off men from the true and immediate use of Christ and the Scriptures 7. The spirit thus raised is that which God mainly respects in his service Joh. 4.23 Those that worship God shall worship him in spirit and in truth 1 Cor 14.15 If I sing I will sing with the spirit c. Phil. 3.3 8. The spirit seems to be of an unknown excellency by what Paul says 1 Cor. 5.3 Col. 2.5 Though absent in body yet present in spirit How the spirit may be present in the absence of the body and how the Apostle intends it is a mystery 9. The seat of the spirit is the mind which is the sublimer part of the Soul as the Soul in the blood the most excellent part of the body 1. That so it may have the more command and readier influence on the whole man 2. That being the next or nearest to its self in being in likeness Ro. 12.2 10. The converse of God is with the spirit as the spirit with the Soul the flesh and spirit are contrary the flesh in those are sanctified wars against the Soul 1 Pet. 2.11 2 Tim. 4.22 Phil. 25. 11. Whereas men are the fathers of the flesh and soul God is the Father of spirits Heb. 12.9 Eccles 12.7 12. Every man hath a particular spirit Christ as man calls his my spirit Stephen his my spirit Mary hers her spirit both male and female Gen. 45.27 Jacob his spirit 2 Cor. 3.17 2.13 13. In this part of man it is the Apostle alludes unto when he saith that in Adam all dye 1 Cor. 15.22 The actual sins we after commit are not of Adam though death of soul and body are annexed to it Rom. Death raigned over those had not sinned after Adams transgression Vide Acts 5.5 10. 1 Chron. 5.26 Dan. 5.20 14. That every man even wicked men have each a distinct spirit Deut. 2.30 see how the King of the Amorites is said to have his spirit hardened and heart obstinate If any shall be so blind as to deny this truth see Job 32.7 8. I said days should speak and multitude of years should speak wisdom But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding 1 Cor. 6.17 1. It is not in days or years or other acquired habits that inables men to speak profitably effectually feelingly but the spirit in man makes a man more wise then his Teachers 2. The Almighty when the spirit is quickened gives it understanding which the Soul should never have or can have from God for the Soulman understandeth not the things of God nor can he but the spirit is taught of God the things eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to consider Acts 6.9 10. 3. Hence the regenerate man is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 2.15 of which Origen on Rom. 1.4 Puto quod consuetudine sua Apostolus utatur etiam in hoc loco sciens mediam semper esse animam inter spiritum carnem aut jungere se carni effici unum cum carne aut sociare se spiritui esse unum cum spiritu ex qu◠si quidem cum carne sit carnales homines fiant si vero cum spiritu spiritales idcirco extrinsecus eam non nominat sed carnem tantum vel spiritum scit enim alteri horum necessario animam cohoerere sicut in his ad quos dicit vos autem in carne non estis sed in spiritu Per Archon Lib. 2. de anima Orig. 32 Homil. John understands what is written of the flesh and spirit in Gal. 5. from vers 17 23. is meant of our flesh and our spirit and not of the Spirit of God 4. Solomon gives the most clear description of the spirit Prov. 20.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The candle or light of the Lord is the spirit of man or the inspiration of man he alludes to what was done in the Creation 1. Signifying when man fell this candle was put out 2. When men are regenerated the Lord lights it Mat. 5.15 3. The Conscience is the remain of that light in man of which Job saith Job 18.6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle that is his Conscience within him shall be extinguisht Job 21.17 sinning against the light of Conscience they put out the candle light Job 29.3 When his candle the spirit shined on me my head by his light I shall pass the darkness 1 Thes 5.19 Quench not the Spirit 5. This breathing of God into the face of man is a metaphorical expression used of God for condescention to man and commends to us some immediate way God had to communicate himself to man more then to the other of the terrestrial Creatures by which he was said to be after the image and likeness of God Object Ephes 2.18 There is one Spirit so that men have not each a particular spirit in them and Ephes 4.4 1 Resp. This is not spoke of the spirit of man but God 2 Nor as man a Creature but a Christian all Beleevers had this Spirit but no Unbeleevers 3. This is not the spirit of man but that Spirit is the Spirit to the spirit of man and gives it life again as at first 4. Of this it is said If any have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Object Eccles 3.19 Man and beasts are said to have one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is one spirit 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here is taken for wind
word and fulfilled in man one on his spirit which differs in kind from that of the soule and then there is death in hell as God of one matter made many creatures so of one breath many lives Object Adam was created mortall Resp Death entered by sin into the world and first ceized on his immortall part the spirit and after on the soule had not man finned death had never been on soul or spirit Object 6. Luk. 12.20 This night they shall require thy soule It seems hence the soule is immortall and was taken from the body by the devils Note the words are parabolicall Resp 1. Who these they are is not set down in the Scripture before going or that that followeth after 2 By they are meant the grave and death of whom God saith I will ransome them from the hand of the grave and power of death Hos 13.14 death hath the soule first and after the grave hath soule and body 3 That the grave requires such a soule as fitted for it and the manner Isa 14.9 the grave from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming And Isa 5.14 the grave opened her mouth wide And Salomons Proverbs tel what she means by her cry give give me this or that soule Job 17.1 the graves are ready for me 4 As the grave so death and the law compare Ps 118.18 Ier. 15.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those are for death to death God gives him up to death to take him Object 7 He should rather have spoke of his body then Resp As the fool spake to his soule not body so doth God also 2 If the soule be required the body must be 3 The soule and body lie in grave 4 The foole had more wit then we he saw his soul did partake of the meat he eat and drink and mirth in them which I have not understood Quest In what was his folly then 1 In that he made provision for the flesh not spirit and took up his rest in these earthly things as if he needed no more 2 In that he had goods for many years and his soule might take its ease and never thought his life was of so short continuance 3 That he was now to go to the grave when these should be left to he knew not whom and he have no more to doe with any such things Object 8. Rev. 6.9.10 The soules under the Altar cry how long before thou avenge our blood Hieron ad Vigilantium Ep. Lib. 3. ais enim c. subter aram Dei animas Apostolorum martyrum consedisse nec posse suis tumulis neque ubi voluerunt esse presentes in terra Resp 1. The way of answering Tropological sayings hath been Theologia symbolica non est argumentativa 2 But to answer it indeed is to know what the Altar is and that is Christ at whose feet the Martyrs as the beasts slaine had their blood poured out and to which here the Spirit alludes 3 Where the soules are that are said to bee under the Altar Resp Where ever they are they are under the Altar and not forsaken of Christ as Christs soule was not left of his Father hence they are said to sleep in Jesus and the dead in Christ 1 Thes 4.13 14. Matth. 27.52 4 The soules are said to cry after they were slain ergo not dead Resp A soul hath no articulate voyce to cry with and therefore can be nothing else but Gods beholding the blood and past death the enemy of Saints Antichrist had cruelly spilt Obj. Here are the soules and blood of soules the cry is from the soul not the blood Res It was the same in Abels blood Gen. 4.10 Heb. 12.24 the soul is not seen nor heard 6 Of this Altar speaks the Apostle We have an Altar which they that serve at the Tabernacle have no right to eate 7 As the Altar is a metaphoricall speech so the soules cry and the souls being under the Altar under which some Gospel truth is mystically represented thereby unto us as that the blood of Saints now came to be inquired after Revel 18.24 and 19.2 and 16.6 Note from the nearnesse of blood and the soule 1. Gen. 9.4 5. God giving leave to man to eate flesh forbid him to eate blood before the Ceremoniall Law 2 Under the Ceremoniall Law 3 After the Ceremoniall Law in the Gospel estate Act. 15.29 by which the esteem and mystery of Christs blood in the Sacrament is exalted 4 On this ground Marriages of such as are of consanguinity and next affinity with the Husband and Wife are forbid because of confusion 5 There is in eating blood a confusion of souls with soules as Pilat mingled the blood of men with blood of beasts Obje 9. Every creature of God is good c. for it is sanctified by the Word and prayer 1 Tim. 4.4 5. Resp Note the dependance of its lawfulnesse because sanctified by the word but if the word forbid a thing then it is otherwise Object 10. Not that goeth into a man but that which commeth out doth defile a man Mat. 15.11 Res This is spoken in contempt of a natural defilement by meat eaten without washt hands as being the cause of Christs speaking the words Note under the Gospell the eating blood is forbid for the reverence to be had to the drinking of the blood of Christ Sacramentally also Obj. Tit. 1.15 To the pure all things are pure 1 Cor. 7.14 Their Wife and children are pure yet not to be eat so blood is pure but not to be eate 1 Tim. 4.3 The Apostle shews it was a sign of the false Teachers to command to abstain from meates calling it doctrine of devils Col. 2.21 1 See abstinence was from meat not from drinking blood 2 It was on a religious ground not a morall ground as this 3 There was an abstinence from meat sacrificed to Idols 1 Cor. 10. Object 1 Cor. 10.25 27. What ever is sold in the Shambles and what ever is set before you eate Resp The Gentiles themselves but in their Temples and worship did abstain from eating and drinking blood 4 The abstinence spok of to the Colossians was Judaizing abstinence from meats 5 That of Timothy was Antichrists corrupt worship and religion placed in such things Object 11. Matth. 10.28 Fear not those that kill the body but cannot kill the soule 1 This Scriptures obscurity is to bee explained by Luk. 12.4 which was spoke at the same time and the same thing intended in that of Luke as that of Matthew as in the verses before these Scriptures and after they being the same words matter and occasion in one as in the other 2 In which this general rule is to be observed for the understanding the historians of Christs life 1 That what seems to be obscure in one we are to seek an explanation of in the other 2 What seems wanting in one wee ought to seek the supply thereof in the other 3 That the mind
as the spirit 4 No Scripture says that any soule is yet in heaven Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep Second part of the difference is between these Scriptures say 1 That the souls dye 2 That they only sleep Note In this is the great controversie for by the one it is mortall and the other it seems not to be so 1 For reconciliation we are to distinguish between the differing nature of Death in these parts of man for as the parts differ in themselves so their deaths differ the spirit is dead while in the body and the soule and body alive but never suffers corruption as the body doth in its death whose death is a totall privation of life sence and motion ending in corruption 2 The soules death differs from that of the spirit and that of body 1 Gods leaving the spirit it dies by withdrawing the spirits operation from it which when by Christ it returned into man he is raised from the spirit death 2 The soule leaving the body it dyes 3 The spirit leaving the soule it suffers its death as the body lives by the soule so the soule by the spirit so that when the spirit is gone the soule is dead as the body moves not without the soule so the soule acts not without the spirit be in her who is its life in it s as well natural as spiritual being Conclusion 1 Unbeleevers and all men by nature are subject to this death of soul as that of spirit and body as being the way and means designed of God for their dissolution 2 Beleevers now though their spirits forsake the soule yet the spirit of Christ being with their soules and they said to sleepe in Jesus it is a sleepe to them though a death to others 3. As somnum is imago mortis it shews the difference seems not much between these there is at least the image of the one in the other though not the other 4 This is a further clearing of the preciousness of the first resurrection and Christs so oft saying to his people they should not see death nor taste of death Vse To shew what a sweet use of Christ in mans forsaken condition is lost and unknown Now if Christ bee with us and wee in Christ though in the grave what matters it we are safe enough whiles in Christ 5 The death of the soule is that it is not with God nor God with it in the absence of its spirit its naturall life and body but sin and death hath dominion over them which it hath not over those asleep in Christ Object Christs soule is said to dye Resp 1. Christs soule was left of its spirit as ours which was one part of this death 2 Hee cries out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me which was that other part God forsook the creature the soule in Christ of which O how sensible was hee though wee are not of the spirits death 3. This is more clear Thou wilt not leave my soule in grave that is no longer but the appointed time of three dayes and after God and his spirit would come to the soule and also raise the body 4 This was he in soul to suffer with man that he might become a ransome for and redeem men from death and the grave where hee indured what man by sinne should suffer under death in the grave 5 Hence those that beleeve not and are not in Jesus doe not sleep in Jesus but are dead and so only are ye to understand the Scriptures when it speaks of the dead in soul and body it cals them dead only but of the beleevers as of men that sleep and sleep in Christin the soule 6 When as the Scriptures speak of the dead in Christ then they cheifly respect the bodies not the soules of Saints Vse Shews what multitudes of lyes and errors are taught in the name of Christ and how destructive the doctrine now taught is 2 How obscure the faith of Christ and the Gospel is in this and multitudes of other cases is not seen nor credited 3 Vse Confirmation of this is deduced hence The spirit dieth and the body dyeth and by the argument of the souls mortality that though God hath said in many Scriptures the soul doth dye and the soule that sinneth shall dye 4 The wages of sin is death and the soul that sinneth shall dye and yet it must not dye how contrary this is to Gods word and Justice and mans desert let the world be judge 5 It is set down in the future tence shall die and shews that it is to be another death on the soule then what was on man by Adams fall Object They make the soul doth dye but it is in Hell hereafter Resp That death of soule is a death in which spirit and body doth partake with it and is after the resurrection as they confesse 1 But that death is called the second death Rev. 21.8 2 In that it is called the second death and soule body and spirit are to die therein it is cleare all these must first suffer a first death before this second which by the now doctrine the soule doth not 1 Thes 4.14 16. In one the soules are said to sleep in Jesus in the other the body dead in Jesus the same persons being spoken of Reasons why the Soules of Saints sleep but of Vnbeleevers are dead FIrst The beleeving soule through the seed of faith and hope sleeps only and is not dead as those without hope Secondly The soule though it be left of its own spirit yet it is in the spirit of Christ Thirdly In this is fulfilled that the beleever seeth not nor doth hee tast of death he being by his faith in the name of the Son of God kept from the power of death Fourthly Christ hath by his souls death redeemed theirs from that death the souls of unbeleevers dye 1 This is in Lazarus set forth John 11.4 This sicknesse is not to death his soul not dying Ver. 11. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth they not understanding the soules sleep Ver. 14. he spake more plainly he is dead speaking of his body Ver. 4. if not thus understood is a mystery that the sicknesse was not to death and yet hee dyed 2 This is seen in Stephen Act. 7.59 Hee commends his spirit to Christ ver 60. his soule is made asleep his body chap. 8.2 is committed to the grave the significancy of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his death chap. 8.1 is exceeding great and signifies his resolution as the taking down of a house The life of the soule is maintained within it by hope and differenceth the dead and living soules 1 Hence hope is said to be the anchor of the soule Heb. 6.19 2 The Apostles 1 Thes 4.13 I would not have you ignorant Brethren concerning those that sleep that they mourn not as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those others those that have no hope Thus Mark. 5.39 Why lament yee and