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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67203	Ecce homo, the little Parliament unbowelled with, the substance, quality, and disposition of the outward members, and inward faculties, vertues, and properties : the glory of the good ones, and sad condition of rotten back-sliders.	Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.	1644 (1644)	Wing W374A; ESTC R1687	12,910	38

Look not without on Votes alone But see what 's hid in Flesh and Bone Ecce Homo THE Little PARLIAMENT unbowelled WITH The substance quality and disposition of the outward Members and inward faculties vertues and properties The glory of the good ones and sad condition of rotten Back-sliders 1 COR. 10. 15. I speak as to wise men judge Yee what I say LONDON Printed by JANE COE and are to be sould at her house without Creeple-Gate 1644. TO The Honourable and truely Pious WILLIAM LENTHALL Esquire Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled Renowned Patriot WHen I consider those admired gifts wherwith your honor is so excellently qualified I censure it too much abruptnesse to present such worth with so meane a tallent yet having had the happinesse to be an eye-witnesse of your love and countenance to Religion and piety And knowing how ignorant many are not only of God but themselves too who may be bettered if God please to give a blessing to this my labour by the use hereof I humbly crave leave to beg this favour to patronize my poore endeavours published for the meditation of those who know better and instruction of those that know lesse That all who use it may savingly know God and themselves which for you and all Gods people is the prayers of Your humble Servant Henry VValker The Contents of the Chapters contained in this Booke CHAP. I. Seweth what the soul is Chap. 2. Sheweth whence the souls come when and how they enter into the bodies Chap. 3. Sheweth the purity of the soul Cha. 4. Sheweth how the soul is defiled with ●…ginall sin Chap. 5. Sheweth how the Sensative part of the soule Chap. 6. The powers of the souls essence Chap. 7. The fuclties of the soul Chap. 8. That when the body dieth the soul neither sleepeth nor perisheth but goeth immediately either to joy or torment Chap. 9. Souls remain where they are sent till the Resurrection Chap. 10. The inward faculties and vertues of the body Chap. 11. Of the vitall spirits Chap. 12. Of the periurbations and passions of the minde Chap. 13. Of the particular faculties of the mind●… Chap. 14. The distinction of the faculties of the soul from the faculties of the minde Chap. 15. The leading of the flesh or spirit one by the other Chap. 16. Of the resurrection Chap. 17. Of Hell Chap. 18. Of Heaven A SECRET Disclosed CHAP. I. Sheweth what the soul of man is I. SOme a define the soul to be the Spirit of life created after the Image of God and inspired into the body of man II. Others say it is an understanding spirit the second part of the substance of man which doth not perish when it departeth from the body but is immortall III. But the true description of the soul according to the diffinition of great learned men is this Namely that the soule of man is a spirituall substance infused of God into the body of man that being joyned thereto may give it life direct and rule it and being separated from the body doth not perish but live immortally and eternally ●… The soul is a very substantiall essence and not a qualitie A qualitie without a substance is not sensible of joy or torment But the soul of man is in it self sensible of joy or sorrow Ergo The soul of man is a very substantiall essence The soul of the rich glutton was tormented in Hell The soul of the theef was with Christ in Paradice The souls under the Altar did cry aloud 2. This substance of the soul is not of these usuall and known natures which we touch and perceive with these senses of the body which are corporall but a spirituall substance That substance which consisteth neither of earth water ayr nor fire neither of any of them severally of part of them or of them all joyned together doth consist not of a corporall but of a spirituall substance But the substance of the soul doth consist neither of earth air fire nor water of any of them nor of all of them Ergo The soul of man is not a corporall but a spirituall substance God breathed the soul of Adam into his body First God made Adam a naturall body then gave him a spirituall soul The body was a type of Adam the soul a type of Christ therefore when the body the earthly part of man dyeth the soul which is spirituall dieth not but departeth pointeth it 3. The soul of man is of God infused into the body and not received by generation from the parents That which we received from our parents we received by generation from them but we received not our souls by generation from our paretns but from God who gave them Ergo We received not our souls from our parents but from God God 〈◊〉 saith Zechariah formed the spirit of man within him Our parents are the fathers of our bodies but God is himself the father of our souls therefore when we die the soul perisheth not with the body in death but returneth to God that gave it CHAP. II. Sheweth whence the souls come when and how they enter into the bodies I. SOme have thought that the soul doth slide from Heaven II. Others have thought that the soul hath its originall from the proper substance of God III. Some do beleeve that all the souls being once made together are reserved in the treasure-house of God and so sent into the bodies after the perfection thereof IIII. Others do suppose that as the body cometh of the body so the soul also springeth of the soul V. Others have declared that the souls of men are daily made of God and so sent into the bodies VI Lastly others of better approved judgements in this particular affirm the soul to be made by God of nothing and to be powred of God into the body when that the fruit is made perfect in the mothers womb with shape and all other parts It is the Lord that fashioneth the soul of man in him and preserveth man by it CHAP. III. Sheweth the puritie of the soul THe soul is created of God pure and holy as God createth it in its own simple nature in respect of God What God createth to praise his name he createth pure and holy Isai. 43. 7. But God createth the soul of man to praise his name Psal. 119. 175. Ergo God createth the soul of man pure and holy Therefore saith Austine Anima recens creata ab omni delicto immunis The soul newly created is void of all offence that is in respect of God CHAP. IV. Sheweth how the soul is defiled by originall sin THe soul of man beingr ceated in the middest of the body in an unclean and polluted place doth forthwith being coopled to the body begin to be uncleane because the body in which it is created is

defiled by propogation from our parents throug originall sin Though the body bee defiled by propogation from our parents through sin yet doth not sin springfrom the body but from the soul Matth. 15. ●…8 so that the soul is properly the principall agent in sin and the body the instrument of the soul The purest rain water that comes from heaven no sooner falls upon the earth on a durty place but it becomes forthwith the moisture of that durt and with it polluted So doth the soul of man which God from heaven places in the body a durty defiled place it is no sooner coopled therewith but becomes forthwith to be unclean The reward of sin is death But sin is not in the body till the soul come Ergo The soul that sinneth with the body is guilty of death Object If sin be an adjunct of the soul not of the body so that it is not in the body before the soul come and that the soul is created of God pure and ●…nspotted and so placed in the body where shall we place originall sin Answer Originall sin is neither proper to the body nor to the soul but is Hominis peccatum a sin of the whole man neither the body must be respected alone nor the soul alone but as they do joyntly make one man and so enter into one condition and are partakers each of others woe or welfare CHAP. V. Sheweth the sensative part of the soule THe sensative part of the soule is that which is touched with the sence either of Joy or grriefe This joy of the soul cannot be hindred by man where it is it is not in mans power to take it away Ioh. 26. 22. So also neither can all the comforts in the world ease a soule that is grieved except the soul it self be touched with the sence of joy This joy or grief doth arise in the soul First from the sence of its present condition Secondly In respect of its future expectation 1. From the sense of the present condition of the soul doth arise either joy or griefe Thus The soul of man doth either rejoyce in the sensative part thereof under some present concived good or else grieveth under some present conceived evill that may be when the Imagination of the soul being fixed on something which it hath or wanteth the judgement doth either like or detest it and so accordingly doth rejoyce or grieve in the enjoying or want thereof As for example A man that is Rich imagineth with himselfe what good is in Riches if the judgement liketh that estate which he enjoyes then is his soul joyful in the enjoying thereof for the present Again A man whose minde is on pleasure the judgement liketh it and therefore rejoyseth in enjoying it and grieveth in being abridged from it Again A man whose imaginations are towards God the judgement being cleere and seeing the good that is in God the soul doth rejoyce to worship him and is grieved because of sin but if the imaginations deceive the heart and the judgement be corrupted so that he cannot see any sweetnesse therein then doth Gods worship become a burthen to the soule 2. This joy or grief doth arise in the soul from the sence of its future expectation When the mind is set on something that shall befall man the Imagination conciveth it either to be good or evill and thereupon doth either fear it or with hope desire it which breedeth either joy or grie●… in the soul As when the minde is set on Jesus Christ desiring salvation through him the Imagination conceiveth it to be good or evil so to do and accordingly as we minde created comforts or 〈◊〉 ourselves on Christ as our chiefest good so fear doth greive or hope rejoyce our soules A man that seeketh felicity from the creature if the judgement conceive it to be evil then though the heart of man be delighted therewith yet doth not the soul desire it but is grieved thereat but if the Imagination conceive it to be good then doth the soul desire it hope for it and rejoyce in the thought thereof When the soul desires Christ apprehending the glory that is in him here is rejoycing Hen●… is the soul even in this life delight●… in the hope of its glory in heaven 〈◊〉 tormented with fear of its horror i●… hell CHAP. VI Of the powers of the souls essence THe soul of man being really one thing hath three powers Memoriam Int●…llectum Voluntatem Memorie understanding and will which three make one essent all soul but in property they are distinct For the propertie of the memorie as to remember the understrnding to perceive and understand The will to chuse out of the memory springeth intelligence and out of both the will Herein the soul may appear to be created after the Image of God because the Deity hath three persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost which three constitute one essenciall God yet every person hath this property From the Father cometh the Son and from both the Holy Ghost CHAP. VII Treateth of the faculties of the soul THe faculties of the soul are those inward gifts which God hath framed in it for the helpe of it self As the Lord hath given the body members so hath he given the soul faculties With the Judement we allow or disallow With the understanding we perceive and apprehend With the Affection we love and delight in things The desire seeketh and waiteth for what it doth effect with the Will we chuse to follow what we desire With the minde we are servent in seeking what we chuse By the memory we retain in mind c The Iudgement being rightly informed we walk in peace and serve God with comfort but when the Iudgement is corrupted all joy is gone The understanding being inlightened we abhor sin but when the understanding is darkned wee are beguiled with sin The Affection being set upon a good object bringeth life but being set on earthly things makes us in danger of the wrath of God c. Thus as the mouth receiving poison The hand receiving a vveapon The feet leading into the sea c. Is the way to destroy the body So to have the Desire Minde Affection c. set on worldly things is the way to destroy both soul and dody But being set on God on heavenly things they make the soul glorious The body the temple of the glorious Spirit and both soul and body Heir of eternall glory through Christ Jesus CHAP. VIII Sheweth that when the body dyeth the soul neither sleepeth nor perisheth but immediately is received either to ioy or torment 1 SOme say that it is the doctrine of Heretickes to perswade themselves that they shall ●…scend into Heaven and to be inhanced to the sight of Father before the generall