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
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
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
the Beast and Man enjoyeth These places and many more in our Translations for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soul have life put in them against the Syriac and the Arabic which retain the Hebrew root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Translations Matth. 6.25 Luk. 12.23 Mat. 10.39 16.25 Mark 8.35 Luk. 9.24 17.33 Joh. 12.25 Luk. 9.56 14.26 Joh. 10.11.15.17 13.38 39. 15.13 Acts 15.26 20.24 27.10 22. Rom. 16.4 Joh. 1. Ephes 3.16 Revel 12.11 Note If the soul and life are two distinct things in Man then to write life where God writes soul is a presumptuous destruction of the Truth of God and the natural life in Christ is the same with that in us he being in all things like us sin onely excepted That the spirit soul and body are three distinct parts of Man I commend these Scriptures to you Note how God speaks to us of himself Gen. 6.5 My Spirit and my Soul Mat. 12.18 My Soul Mat. 10. As having a Body 1 Thess 5.23 as before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 1.46 47. Mary said there is the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My soul doth magnifie the Lord and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Job 12.10 For in his hand is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soul of every one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 living and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirit of every fleshman or all mankinde which is the Adam soma In respect the Scripture saith that every truth is confirmed und r two or three witnesses and here Paul Mary Job are produced which is the number required I shall proceed to particulars and first of the Spirit Joh. 11.33 Christs Spirit is troubled which was his humane spirit And Cap. 13.21 of his Soul Joh. 10.15 12.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Spirit is not by propagation conveyed from man to man Job 26. vers 4. Whose spirit came from thee The first thing necessary to be considered is the Being and Beginning of the Spirit Genes 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plasmavit the word respects the forming of a thing out of a gross body as a Potter of the clay his vessel so God formed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Adam of the dust of the Earth when he breathed in his face spiraculum vitarum the breath of lives not of life as the corrupt Translations read but lives in the plural viz. that of the soul of the spirit and the Adam the Earth became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I thus expound And the Earth IS to the Soul vivens living where the Soul and the life are distinguished Isai 38.19 Gen. 7.21 22. Numb 31.40 2. Whereas it is said the Lord breathed into Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is lives in the plural not life as it is corruptly translated and admirably cleared Isai 57.16 the spirit and spiration shewing 1. That God placed in man differing lives 2. That the spirit hath its life the soul it s and the body it s by this Breath 3. All were far differently from the beasts by God communicated to man in his Creation as I shall shew hereafter Job 35. Of this Life of the Spirit 1. As God of the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tohu and bohu chaos and confusion made Heaven and Earth Man and Angels Beasts and Fishes so of the same spiration or emission he made life in the soul the spirit the body 2. As he divided between the waters above the Firmament and the waters beneath so he divided the soul life from that of the spirit Man the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having in himself as the perfection of the Creation that which corresponds to all these 3. A darkness that lieth hereby on the spirits of men is removed because whereas God said Gen. 2.17 Adam should dye in the day he eat of the tree of knowledg of good and evil some expound ing the day by a thousand years others other-ways but I forbear and commend to you this That God in that day he spake to man alluded to the natural day of man not God this sentence was made good on him not by taking away his soul-life but his spirit-life which was then dead in him as appears in that his access to familiarity with and innocency before God was lost together with all farther actings of the spirit within him 4. Hence as Tim. 1.5.6 of the wanton widow she is dead whiles she liveth which shews that she was some way or where dead that is in spirit and in some thing or part alive which was in body and soul 5. That the spirit was dead appears 1 Cor. 15.44 for Christ was made a quickening spirit to Adams generation who by his fall became only a living soul the spirit being dead in him Ephes 5.14 this spoke to men alive in the flesh but dead in the spirit 6. This quickening of the spirit is the great work of Christ on man in the days of the Gospel to raise the spirit from its death which is called the first Resurrection Rev. 20.6 7. Those that confound soul and spirit do destroy the faith and put men either to expect that now is to be done hereafter or that hereafter is to be done now indeed now is to be the resurrection of the spirit by the Word and Spirit of Christ or that at last will be nothing available many Souls by this delusion have been undone 8. This death first entred into the world by Adams sin so the restoration of this life is first and is called filthiness 2 Cor. 7.1 9. This resurrection is by beleeving in Jesus Christ John 11.25 26. 10. As the soul is to the body so the spirit is to the soul the soul is in the blood as its seat and the spirit in the mind as its seat being the sublimest part of the soul informing and leading the soul and body To make a definition of the Spirit no man ever could since the fall that was meer man Solomon whose Philosophy exceeds all else that men call so Eccles 3.21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that ascendeth to supernals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that above and above of the Apostle 1. Shewing that the spirit of man was of an unknown excellency if any had known it of men Solomon had Adams death of spirit was that he lost the knowledg of God himself and sense of his Soul-misery 2. In the Restoration thereof we have some discovery made of the exercise thereof Gal. 5.22 23. among which Faith that excellent grace is said to be one which since the death of the spirit is the gift of God and a part of the spirits resurrection and life 3. The spirit is that which is immortally with God as in Eccles 12.7 The spirit returns to God that gave it and who dares say more returned either that the Soul or life doth and not be guilty of adding to the Word
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
putrit in terra nisi corpora quae in terrâ—ponuntur in qua semina jactantur propter hoc dixit seminatur in ignobilitate surgit in gloria Idem Quemadmodum enim corruptelae est capax caro sic incorruptelae quemadmodum mortis sic vitae Concerning the two Opinions of the soule 1 Whether the soule dyeth and lyeth with the body in the grave 2 Whether it sleep in the body as the life in the seed sown There is no destruction of the faith whether we understand one or the other 1 Because both agree that it is in the grave 2 Sleep and death are as one to it sleep is imago mortis 3 Both agree that it injoys not God for the time of its being in the grave 4 That it is with the body to partake of the resurrection if it bee dead it must be quickened and that as the mortall body if asleep then it must be awakened Origen de principiis de anima Lib. 2. Haec de rationali anima discutienda magis à legentibus quamstatuta definitia protulimus Hierm Ep. to Vigilan Lib. 3. Epist God is not the God of the dead but of the living Mark 12. I am the God of Abraham which he applies to the soule but indeed is more proper to the spirit now of the soule he useth Rev. 6. Ais enim in sinu Abrabae vel in loco refrigerii vel subter aram Dei animas Apostolorum vel Martyrum consedisse nec posse suiis tumulis ubi voluerint adesse praesentes 1 Those men whose bodies were burned given to beasts and destroyed not buried their soules as wanting the grave and place of rest for souls are said to be under the Altar 2 No other souls have that benefit but rest with their bodies 3 The reason Because they are not in the grave and with their body or in Heaven where they would be 4 Have they no better place for the spirit which the Scripture saith is with God Clemens Ep. on James alludes to this but is strangely corrupted so as not fit to be cited he tels that as a reward of God Enoch that was found just remained longer in the body others translated to Paradice others not so just their bodies are dissolved but souls in pleasant places that in the resurrection of the dead their bodies should receive and injoy the eternall inheritance And here because of what my adversaries may clandestinely abuse me and the truth calling it Socinianism Arminianism or the like Note I declare against their doctrine 1 That what now men against the Scriptures among us falsly attribute to the soule that I hold is in Scripture given to the spirit who suffers at its departure out of the body by the death of the soule weal with God or woe with Satan and sinners 2 The souls of good and bad whiles dead or a sleep remain so until the resurrection of the body at the last day 3 That good and bad then shall in soule body and spirit be raised united and judged by Jesus Christ and suffer in all evill of pain and losse if reprobates and injoy blessednesse and joy if they belong to Gods election 4 It shall be the same body soule and spirit and not others against the Doctrine of the Remonstants and Socinians which I could sufficiently prove but that it is not my purpose at this time to speak any more hereunto then to prevent offences and scandals that may arise either through the disaffection or mis understanding of men To understand what the Spirit of Christ is to us by the help of the divine Essence of the God-head assisting the same thereunto is of speciall concernment 1 CHrist speaking of his humane spirit saith Job 6.63 It is the Spirit quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing here by Spirit is meant that more excellent part of the humane nature in Scripture opposed to flesh 2 1 Cor. 15.45 The first man Adam by sin came to be a living soule the last Adam a live-making spirit Christ being made and fitted of God on purpose to quicken the spirits of men dead in them by Adams sin in which the great mystery of the Gospel is hid Joh. 5.21 As the Father raiseth and maketh alive the dead which was Christ Act. 3.15 and 4.10 and 5.30 and 13.30 whom God made a quickening Spirit and raised his dead soule and body from their several deaths So the Son maketh alive whom he will which is the spirituall work of Christs spirit on the spirits of the Elect with which compare 1 Cor. 15.21 As by man came death also by man came the resurrection of the dead Ver. 22. As in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all be made alive to whom as Mediator before the giving up of the Kingdom death shall be done away and put under his feet in which is the utter overthrow of death c. But to return John 5.26 As the Father hath life in himselfe in the raising of Christ so he gave the Son to have life in himselfe Ver. 24. That whosoever beleeveth in him that sent him and heareth his word might have eternal life and not come into judgement but hath passed from death unto life which of necessity must be meant of the spirits death and quickening 1 Note This quickening of the spirit and passing from death to life is called the first resurrection Revel 20.5 It being the sole work of Christ in the time of grace to quicken the spirits of the Elect and to make them partakers of this first resurrection which precedes that of the soul and body so that the resurrection which men have by the soule and body of Christ at the last day is no profit to that man who is not first raised or quickened by the spirit to the first resurrection 2 This is opened 2 Cor. 4.14 Knowing he who raised the Lord Jesus also doth raise us by Jesus and shall present us with you Rom. 8.9 Yee are not in the flesh but in the spirit if the spirit of God dwell in you but if any have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his 1 You have the Spirit of God said to dwel in men 2 The having of the Spirit of Christ 3 Without the one man cannot please God without the other he is not Christs Ver. 14. Those are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God Gal. 4.6 Into whose hearts because they are Sons God by his Spirit sends forth the Spirit of his Son teaching them to cry abba Pather The Spirit of God is usually called the Spirit of promise the Spirit the holy which we read the Holy Spirit the Spirit of God given as a seale of the grace of God in Christ to man and the worke done on them Rom. 8.26 The spirit also helpeth our infirmities for wee know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh intercession for us with groans that cannot