nothing which she had in her blood I might on this subject exceed were it to the purpose propounded Vers 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the casting forth of seed was thy soule where is the male in coition with the female Ver. 6. He is in his blood in the womb when God first gave life to him as to Adam Blood is the seat of the Soule and so related to and concerned in it that great are the mysteries of it as concerning Jesus Christ THe new Testament was made in the blood of Christ Heb. 13.20 Luk. 22.20 1 Cor. 11.25 1 Without shedding of blood is no remission 2 The blood of Jesus cleanseth the conscience Heb. 9.14 and from all sin 1 John 17. Rev. 1.5 3 Heb. 10.19 20. By his blood we have an admission to God 4. Vers 22. Water is for the body baptism blood the conscience 5. The use whereof was set out in sprinkling pots and cups Heb. 10.22 1 Pet 1.2 this speaks peace Heb. 12.13 Note in this was the glorious act of redemption wrought and justice more excellently satisfied then in what was done on the body 1 God requiring blood for blood when a man was to dye for staying of a man so now man being for sin to dye he cannot be saved but by the death of his Son for Man 2 He requires soule for soule which are indeed the same and without this there is no remission Ap. the necessity of this knowledge I commend to all to judge of 2 King 10.24 Gen. 9.5 6. Exod. 21.23 typified in the beasts slaine for sacrifice Deut. 19.21 1 John 5.7 3 Three beare witnesse in heaven in the God-head the Father the Word the Spirit 4 Three bear witnesse in earth in the manhood of Christ the Spirit the Water the Blood Now these three accordingly are applied by Christ to man for and towards his restauration descending to him in which as Eliah 2 King 4.34 Christ applyed himselfe to man to restore him 1 Using his Spirit to quicken the dead spirit of man by which the Lord is called a quickening Spirit 2 After that hee applyes the water answering to his humane nature to wash the body by baptism 3 The blood in the Lords Supper and in redemption by his blood which is the soule part of Christ to cleanse the Conscience John 19.34 35. 1 If we have not the use of Christ in these severall ways as he hath appointed to communicate himselfe to man our faith is vain 2 This of the spirit is all that and the first only necessary thing to be apprehended for the flesh profiteth nothing it is the spirit quickeneth Joh. 6.63 3 The end of grace here is that men may be raised in spirit and be partaker of the first resurrection Rev. 20.6 unlesse this be done Christ doth nothing and this is to be done on the dead spirit or there is nothing done 4 As the spirit hath its good by Christs Spirit so the soule by Christs soule and flesh by Christs flesh 5 The good of each was properly to arise from the severall parts of Christ to those in man as the sinner needed them Christ being proportioned and fitted to be a perfect Saviour Object Gen. 35 18. As her soul was going forth for she died The soul as the spirit goeth forth of the body at death Resp 1. The dissolution of that unity was between spirit and soule and soule and body as the cause of death 2 It is like the soule goeth forth with the spirit though it is not said to goe to God but dyeth or sleeps as with the soule follows after the life and the body dyeth Object The soule and the spirit are one I Answer that is against Scripture Object As the spirit goeth forth to God so the soule Resp The Scriptures say not such a word of the soule The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the new Testament so often used hath a notable significancy in it to set this out for it signifies man the whole at death to suffer a resolution of parts the Spirit divided from Soule and Soule from Body in the corrupting thereof That the Soule suffers not hell Torments untill the last Judgement ROm. 2.8 speaks of the day of wrath which the soule that is impenitent treasures up wrath by rejecting Gods Counsell 2 This day is called the day of the revelation of the righteous Judgement of God which must be understood the last and great day of Judgement when and not before the judgement of God is revealed 3 Ver. 6. Then every one shall receive according to their works Ver. 7. When our mortality shall put on immortality and not before 4. Ver. 9. Then and not before shall be tribulation and anguish on every soule of man that doth evill the Jew first and then the Gentile Wisdom 3.1 6. By so much authority as it hath being Apocryphal proves it which whiles it agrees with the word I prefer before any authority that is meer humane Under the old Testament these were set forth distinct in Christ and so in us 1 The Goat was slain and sacrificed the body 2 His blood poured out the soule 3 The scape-Goat went away into the wildernesse the spirit which is not under the power of man Obj. This Goat is meant the divine Nature Resp 1. They were two Goats of the same nature and did represent the same person of the humanity only part as the body and soule dyed part was beyond the power of man and death 2 How unpossible the divine glory of the Divine nature of the Lord Jesus could admit of any shadow of change as to bee set out dividedly under the representation of a Goat the note of reprobates I leave all to judge To reconcile the seeming differences it is first necessary they be stated and compared 1. Part of the difference is about the place or ubi where they are which are set downe in Scripture 1 To be in the grave 2 To be under the Altar 3 To be in the body 4 To be in heaven 1 Note the first two are thus reconciled those that die the naturall death of all and are interred their soules are in grave 2 Those whose blood as that of the slain beasts was for Christ poured out at the feet of the altar and had no grave for their bodies nor burial their soules are under the altar and not as others the manner of their souls presence with Christ is a cry against those that shed their blood in which the soul blood are distinguished 3 As Paul 2 Cor. 12.2 Whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell yet by what is said Gen. 35.18 it goeth out of the body when it hovers over it and lieth down with it in the grave or after enters into it when dead and sleeps in it the spirit and life departed from it not being willing to be alone may return to the body as before it not vanishing as the life nor going to God
of God is not fully knowne in one history if the same be recorded by another nay nor in two if recorded in three as many are Now this story and words are only set down in this Matth. 10. and Luk. 12 in which two yee have the mind of God concerning the same Matth. 10.28 Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soule but rather fear him that is able to destroy both soule and body in hell Luk. 12.4 Be not afraid of them that can kill the body and after that have no more that they can doe but I will forewarn you whom yee shall fear fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell 1 Life is distinguished as I shewed you before from the soul which dyeth by the death of the body but not in it being distinct from it 2 Life as thus distinct from the soule is said to be taken away by the sword Job 33.18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword Thus also in ver 22. In which life which perisheth by the sword is that called here the killing of the body for that is that man doth on which dissolving the chain of life the Spirit leaves the soule and the soule say some lyeth in the body asleep in the grave and under the Altar Nor others it is dead by the spirits departure from the soule as the body by lifes departure from it in which is dissolved the most glorious fabrick of the earth 3 Luke speaks of that killing of the soul which is after death and not at the dissolution of the body in death even of casting the soul and body into hell 1 Note on the killing of the body you have compleated the first death of spirit soule and body in unbeleevers 2 In that is to be done after is the second death which men have no hand in when God onely casts soule and spirit and body into hel which is the second death which is that Christs eie is upon 3 Or that is after the death of the body to be done on it is to raise the soule and awake that quicken the body restore the spirit and then bring it to Judgement It is appointed to all to dye and after that to come to Judgement Note in this place clearly are expressed but two parts of man his body his soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirit being dead before 2 Man every man undeniably consists of three soul body spirit 3 The spirit must be understood here as well as the rest and that in the soul which canot be killed nor dyeth not in the way of man 4 He speaks of the soule rather then spirit because the men of the world are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their very spirits yea God Gen. 6.5 says man is flesh soule spirit body are called flesh in that place through the carnall mind which was in them eating drinking marrying building planting onely thought on Note from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth trucidare to tear rend cut and slash which may bee done by man on the body or beasts but the soule men cannot come at to use it in like kind being of a more spirituall substance and nature 2 That Christs eye is especially on this to take away the discomforts hung on the hearts of his people seeing some whipt others cut stoned 2 Cor. 11 25. sawen asunder slain with the sword scourged Heb. 11.37 why this trucidation of men is but on the body the soule they cannot make suffer in this kind that joyes within whiles the body indures this without they cannot tear that if not that much lesse the spirit Job 33.18 20 22 28. the life the sword destroys not the soule Heb. 6.19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soule Acts 2.26 Having spoke that the heart should be glad and the tongue rejoyce in which the soule was intimated my flesh also shall rest in hope 1 It hopes as the soule and with the soule 2 The soule and flesh though they goe to the grave together yet hope in the Word Truth Power and Promises of God it shall arise and be incorruptible though it see it not 3 This is significantly manifested in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 moreover that is besides my soule my flesh shall rest in hope 4 In that hope is the souls and the only use of it when the soule and body lye in the grave it describes the soules nature and estate The Metaphor is thus opened 1 Whiles the spirituall man in spirit soule and body was carried through the sea of this world by the gales of the Spirit of God and helpe of the north star and the Word its compasse steered its course towards heaven 2 But when the Spirit the Pilot left the ship the body the soul went no fâ—rther but made use of hope as its Anchor and there rested where the Spirit left it 3 Wâ—ere it waited for the return of the Spirit from the Lord and the Lord bringing it to the desired port and Haven of rest with the Lord in heavenly places Heraclitus said Animis mors est aquam fieri 1 The Naturalists say the water that came out of Christs side was that was contained in the Pericardian 2 What relation this had to the soule or the soule to it I dare not determine 3 This we know that the Sacraments of Baptisme was instituted with water the Lords Supper with blood August Sacramenta manant e latere Christi Clemens Alex. paed liq 1. cap. 6. Sanguis enim invenitur primum genitus in homine quem nonnulli ausi sunt dicere substantiam animae Austins wrote 16 chap. to prove the immortality of the soule in all which I remember not he makes use of one Text of Scripture but Philosophically handles the Question nor doth he mention the spirit such a darkness in his time Philosophy had drawn on men who seeking to be wise became fools Ezek. â—6 9. I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live 1 A naturall man in that estate is as a child at his birth in blood and corruption as he came out of the womb 2 God in his blood-estate said live that is quickned her by his Word and Spirit Thrice live first in soule then spirit naturally then spiritually Vers 8. God in love covers her nakednesse makes a Covenant and becomes her Husband Vers 9. Hee washed her with water baptisme and washed away her blood and anoynted her with oyle that is with the Holy Spirits Baptisme after beleeving and baptisme which shewes in this place Gods eye in especiall was on the estate of the Gospell Church Vers 12. A Crown on her head the state of the Gospel Rev. 12.1 Vers 14. Her renown went among the Gentiles when followed the Gentiles call Note she was alive yet in her blood when God says again and again live and shews her life was
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
seen Abraham that this is only fulfilled in the Divine nature of Christ is the question 10 The Rabbies understand that alway the word Adonai is distinct in the Old Testament from Jehova in the persons signified by them God and Christ unlesse some other divine Epithite be added 11. That it was the Lord Christ appeared in the form of man before he had flesh 12 He is said to be the same yesterday and to day and for ever he was man yesterday by having mans spirit before he took flesh and when he had flesh and since viz. that is the Lord was Mediator for poor man before and since Heb. 13.8 he was in flesh among us 13 He is said to be the beginning of the creation of God Revel 3.14 14 Nor is it any where said God inspired into him his Spirit but the Spirit overshadowed the Virgin Luk. 1.35 Object 2 Cor. 11.4 For if he that commeth preacheth another Jesus whom we have not preached or if yee receive another spirit which we have not received or another Gospel which yee have not accepted yee might well bear with him so that it seems the spirit Christians have is but one Resp 1. He speaks of the preaching Jesus 2 The receiving the Spirit by that preaching 3 That that was preached of Jesus was the Gospel Note Which shews that the Spirit here was that came by preaching and by that means was ordinarily received which was the Spirit of Christ not that called the Holy Spirit of God which is also one Spirit proper to the person of Christ for excellency power life and perfection 3 That the Spirit of God and Christ in Scripture are variously distinguished I have proved before 4 Christ was not man without the one nor God without the other 5 The work of the God-head in Christ was to make effectuall the work of the Spirit to man that was humane in him Hence is he said to offer up himself on the eternal spirit to God distinguishing God the Spirit in him from that spirit of man in himselfe Heb. 9.8 6 To adde one place more for distinction Act. 5.3 Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost Ver. 10. How is it that yee have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord. Annanias bringing not the full price after he had promised it to God and saying it was the whole to the Church brake his vow to God and lyed to the Holy Spirit he being by the Spirit moved hereto to a spiritual end Saphira being privy to the deceit onely but did not come with it before the Church with her Husband the evill of the fact was mainly in her Husband again had she not been demanded she would it is like have been silent in it the Text onely saith she was privy to it not consenting 1 Note hence the Word saith the being privy and the concealment of the fact was a tempting of the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Note The lying to the Holy Spirit was a more dreadful evill of a higher nature more immediately against God then this of tempting the Spirit of the Lord In the lesser evill was one in the greater the other in the private the one in the publick sin the other 3 Note Satan filled Annanias heart but after that Annanias tempted Saphira who agree together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord Mark 2.8 4 Note Here is the ground of the fearfulnesse of the judgement because it was committed against the Spirit of God and Christ and their operations in them Object John 1.13 1 Joh. 3.9 and 4.7 and 5.1.4.18 Men are said to be born of God therefore the Spirit Joh. 3.5 must be by the Spirit of God which is the Spirit of Christ and cannot be understood that the humane spirit of Christ hath any hand herein Resp These are excellently distinguished and cleared Tit. 3.5 by the washing of regeneration Mark there is water and the Spirit of Christ for without the Spirit can be no regeneration 2 He comes and after tells us of renewing of the Holy Spirit when the Spirit of God renews in man in a more divine way this their regeneration in them Ephes 4.23 beleevers are to be renewed in the Spirit of their mind 3 In the work of the Spirit of Christ they are said to be Christs 1 Cor. 6.17 Rom. 8.9 and having the Spirit of God Gods Rom. 4 18. Ephes 1.13 4 These are more clearly spoke of and joyned together Joh. 17.10 all mine that have the worke of my Spirit quickening them are thine thy Spirit renewing that Spirit of the mind within them 5 That of Joh. 3.3 of being born from above is one thing that of vers 5. is another of being born of water and the Spirit 1 By the one men see the Kingdom of God vers 3. 2 By the other men enter the Kingdom vers 5. 3. Vers 12. distinguish them that are Vers 5. said to be earthly things because done on earth by the Spirit of the Lord in the use of means and not comparable for it is divine Nature and glory with the other 4 The other is from above that is God and Heaven and called in comparison hereof heavenly things Object 1 Cor. 12.3 No man speaking in the Spirit of God saith Jesus is accursed nor is any able to call Jesus Lord but in the Holy Spirit therefore it is the Holy Spirit men are born of Resp 1. Here is spoken of the first part of Gods Spirit on man which is to discover the things of the Kingdome that so they be brought to beleeve them without which they call not Christ Lord and having this they cannot dispise the Lord. 2 By which beleeving the Spirit of Christ is introduced 3 After all which the beleevers being baptized the Spirit was given to renew that Spirit of the mind that was in them by which the things of God came to be apprehended more divinely and clearly thus the Disciples after their knowing Christ Joh. 14.26 by the Spirit knew him more divinely The Spirit of Christ perfects in men the image of the Lord in the conformity of his conversation to the Gospel be ye followers of me as I am of Christ and learn of me saith the Lord Jesus I am humble and meek which is called a putting on of Christ The Spirit of Christ quickens the spirit when the Spirit of God renewes in man the image of God lost and again indues him with his likenesse by which he is a new creature to his God Hence Coloss 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appear c. Vers 3. Our life is hid with Christ before he says they were dead that is with Christ and now are alive with Christ and their life was hid with Christs life which lived in them and quickened them which the Apostle Paul clears by his manner of speaking Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live that is spiritually which as if he had said amisse he
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
or breath not spirit he in the same place speaks of the death of them both in which they are one though not in the Resurrection 2. Vers 21. he comes again with the same word and then distinguisheth the beasts spirit from mans the one goeth up to higher beatitude and enjoyments the other descendeth to its first matter and being at its end 3. The now ignorance of the Soul and spirit among men sufficiently shews what a vail of darkness is on the faces of the wise and prudent of the times who cry down New Lights because in love with the old darkness The Philosophers saying is useful Nosce tei psum Acts 17.28 We are his off-spring The Poet in this alludes to Gods breathing into man the breath of life in which he came to spring off or from God he having in him a likeness of God through the immortality of spirit and its spirituality of nature with the other endowments of his Soul The Soul and Spirit are so distinct 1. That now the Soul feels not the death of the spirit 2. Nor when the Soul and body dye doth the spirit feel any thing therein of pain but the Soul only Object God at once breathed in Soul and spirit therefore they are one 1. They are not one as in their names 2. There are said to be lives begun in man at that one breathing which must distinguish them in the effence being of them and one must hereby be better or greater more like God and have more of God then another Ephes 4.23 Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind 1 In this yee have the seat of the spirit which is the supream part of the Soul Job 20.3 Datur homini ut maneat quasi caput ejus sit Ambrose 1 Thes 5.23 2 Its effects or acts there are to spiritualize the mind Romans 8.6 3 The survay of man is of the spirit 1 Cor. 2.11 which now only doth remain in that obliterated fragment of the Conscience in man 4 The spirit under the Gospel-state in time of grace is to be renewed this is the now work of God and Christ Titus 3.5 in which he is born again 5 The mind without the spirit to God is as the body without the soule to man 1 Pet. 1.22 the Spirit by the Word comes to purifie the soule 6 The carriage of man is from his spirit as high spirited meek hasty Elias spirit Luk. 9.55 Yee know not of what spirit ye are of O but we know not we have any Jude 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soule men not having a spirit 1 The spirit being dead as Gen. 42.13 they are said not to be 2 They wanting the light of the spirit did corruptly corrupt the truth and way of God and did their owne wills instead of Gods setting up Churches administring the Ordinances of God according to their sence not the Spirit of God Object If any say these distinctions are made by me onely I commend to him Heb. 4.12 The Word of God is quicke c. divides a sunder the Soule and the Spirit 1 Yee see here is a Soul and Spirit 2 The Word of God divides a sunder these and not confounds them 3 The Word shews what the Spirit is and what the Soule is and what Christ hath done for either and will do in them and shall be done to them 4 No man hath the use knowledge or the understanding of the word of God until he seeth how these are divided and thereby divide the word aright to them 5 Those that speak against the dividing of them seek to take away the edge of the Word the life and power of it and so to make it uselesse to men 1 Cor. 15.44 It is sown that is by birth a soule body it is raised in the first resurrection a spirituall body there is a soule body the naturall man and a spiritual the regenerate Ver 46. But the spirituall body is not first but the soule body the naturall man and after the spiritual body that is after regeneration Ver. 47. clears this truth The first man Adam was of the earth the second from heaven vide ver 48 49. Vide 1 Cor. 2.15 The spirituall man judgeth all things the naturall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soule man understandeth not the things of God The divine nature of mans spirit appeares to be far above the soule in that it hath not respect to creature delights as the soule hath Eccles 2.11 Salomon of all found nothing but vanity and vexation of spirit so that the spirit is vexed with the delusions and deceipts it seduces and wars against the poor soule with 1 Pet. 2 11. Gal. 5.17 The flesh lusteth against the spirit 1 The flesh lusteth for temporal food and neglects spirituall the spirit lusteth for spirituall and neglects temporal to keep under his body 2 The flesh and spirit are contrary but not flesh and soule in the naturall nor soule and spirit in the regenerate man Eccles 8.8 No man hath power over the Spirit to retaine the Spirit nor hath he power in the day of death The words are thus to be read no Adam flesh hath power over the spirit for the restraining of it nor hath it power in the day of death 1 The Spirit is not under mans but Gods authority 2 Nor hath man in the day of death any thing to doe with the spirit no not to Judgement who art thou that judgest another 3 So that what ignorantly is applied to the foule that the Scriptures in the name of God applies to the spirit 4 This was excellently fulfilled in Paul vide Gal. 1.16 of the soule it is said otherwise Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 4.6 For this cause was the Gospel preached to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit 1 The Gospell that is the Grace of Christ is only to be preached to those who are dead that is spiritually dead to the world and themselves 2 Speaking graciously to them and of them in compassion to their infirmities as it is said of God he remembred that they were but flesh so God in the Gospel speaks to man as in flesh in weaknes and infirmities of body 3 Yet that they should live according to God in the spirit 4 The Gospell is to be preached to none but these 5 Nor to no other end but as before The death of the spirit in Man 1 Is in this excellently manifested that man knows it not Eccles 3.21 who doth know the spirit of man 2 That he is so insensible of it that he knows not that he hath a spirit in him but takes soule for spirit and spirit for soule nor can hee distinguish any operation of the spirit distinct from the soule 3 If he doe it is to place it in some inferior region in the body below the soule as the animall vitall naturall how far these are below the spirit and
because it is the Spirit must teach the flesh to profit by Christ or he gains nothing by it Vid. Aug. Lib. Quaest Cap. 67. Anselm on the words Gregor Mor. lib. 4. cap. 30. lib. 8. cap. 4. Rom. 8.19 The expectation of the creature that is mans body as in Phi. 1.20 from without waiteth for the revelation of the Sons of God 1 John 3 2. It being not untill then glorified but corrupt Ver. 20. The creature man is subjected to vanity it not having ought but through him that hath subjected it in hope Ver. 21. For the creature it selfe by which is strictly taken the body being made after the form of the other creatures in the creation from which the spirit and soule differed shall be made free from the bondage of corruption when at the last day it shal have put on incorruption into the liberty of glory God being to be seen with these eyes that now cannot see God and live of the Sons of Gad in the flesh Ver. 22. For we know that all or the whole creature man in his spirit soule and body he before having spoken of the soule distinct in the hope and the body in its vanity nowspeaks of all groan together and travel in pain together untill now That is the body labours under the wants of the soule the soule of the body the spirit is burthened with the temptations of both Rom. 7.24 until now that is none as yet being possessed of this felicity Ver. 23. And not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the body but they the spirit and soule having the beginning of the spirit his spirit quickening our spirit that it cannot see death but is partaker of the first resurrection and the soule supported by hope sleeping in Christ is free from corruption far differing in its estate from that of the body and thence after we our selves is opposed to the body altogether before spoken of We our selves in our selves groan looking out to the felicity the redemption of our bodies Here the revelation of sons is reserved to the last day when beleevers shall be separated from unbeleevers Ver. 24. For by hope we are saved in which he alludes to the looking out and expectation of the creature ver 19 20 23 and shews man is this creature as being the only adequate object of hope Ver. 25. Who onely by patience wait for the manifestation hereof upon the perswasions of the spirit assuring man hereof by the Word of God Note verse 23. Not onely the creature the creature is added in Translation signifying the body distinct from the soule and spirit or the natural man of the first creation from the spiritual of the regeneration as after Mark 16.15 Go out into all the world preach the Gospell to every creature That the soule body and spirit is the key of Scripture and this hid the mysterie of salvation is many waies hid but especially the way of teaching it appears in this truth 1 How men corrupt the sence of the Word and loose the mind of God for here they read every creature and therefore St. Francis goeth and preacheth to the fishes and why we on this command should not preach to the beasts and fowles I know not 2 Others there are that say the Gospel is to be preached to every c. and therefore remission of sins and salvation of Christ is to be applyed to all the men on earth 1 Say they Christ redeemed all 2 The Word commands the Gospel to be preached and applied to all Note the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usually translated omnis every as respecting the number of things but when it admits not number it is read all as in the same ver and Col. 1.6 for ye cannot say in every world there being but one in all N. Now so here teach the Gospel to every creature why no creature is capable of the teaching of the Gospel but man and therefore God enjoyned the teaching of none but him if he did as men read he did then we that teach do not well to neglect them N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I rather therefore translate all the creature as before all the world and then shews 1. That the whole man hath sweet mercies set out in the Gospell 2. That the Gospell is to be distributed to its severall parts by the wise workman to make him perfect 1 There is Gospel to reform the body and form it to Christ with most sweet promises of its resurrection and glory 2 The soule the Gospel hath multitude of precious balmes for its wounds and instructions how to take heed of the flesh to leave the world to enjoy Christ and what the Lord is and will bee to the soule 3 The Word divides between soule and spirit and reproves the â—â—â—thinesse of that and reformes it to the glorious image of the Sons of God The Doctors Ministery was the first of these 1 Cor. 3.1 3. for as yet they were not fitted to embrace the more spiritual knowledge of the Gospel nor were they reformed in their lowest part 2 The soule the Pastors 1 Pet. 2.25 Peter was Pastor in Jerusalems Church and he faith yee are returned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto the Pastor that was an Office as ministring and the Bishop that was he was a Ruling Officer who was to reforme the affections and mind by exhortations Rom. 8.19 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God having quickened the spirit he by rules 1 Teaches the spirit as it is able to hear and know God and bear his yoake which first is concerned in the reforming the outward man or flesh and the soule in the lower parts thereof In the ministery of the Teacher Heb. 6.1 Repentance Baptism Resurrection and Judgement concerning the flesh Rom. 12.1 2. 2 In the instructing of the soule in its more excellent part of the mind affections Act. 14.22 and 15.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 11. fleshly lusts fight against the soul 1 Pet. 2.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pastor is of the soule 1 Pet. 1.22 3 In the instructing of the Spirit which is the Evangelists work of ministry 1 Under which three the Beleever is to bee perfected in the first hee is as a Babe in the other as a Youth in the last as a strong man in Christ 2 These three have as by a line the word laid out to them 1 Cor. 15.29 baptized for the deads the spirit the soule the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if the deads are not altogether raised c. 1 Hence Paul taught the Corinthians not as spiritual but carnal as babes in Christ where there are set out spiritual and carnal the carnal babes in Christ 1 Cor. 3.1 3. 2 Cor 4.10 11 12 13. 2 Hence Christ saith I have many things to say but yee cannot bear them now 3 This beginning is set out Rom. 8.13 If ye by the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the flesh ye shall live
ver 23. The first fruits of the spirit Col. 2.11 to the end and cap. 3. to the end of the 11. where wrath uncleannesse covetousnesse lying c. are spoken of and thus the Corinthians first Epistle is against anger malice uncleannesse 4 The Scriptures speakes of the new creature which God as in the beginning begins with the Adams creation Gal. 6.15 17. Ephes 4.23 is the spirit ver 24. the soule ver 25. the body 1 Pet. 4.1 2. Rom. 8.11 Irenaeus Lib 5. Cap. ult Commoratus est Dominus sanctorum mortuorum suorum corum qui ante dormierunt in terram stipulationis descendit ad cos extrahere eos salvare eos c. and after Ascendit quid est autem nisi quia descendit in inferiora terrae hoc David in eum prophetans dixit eripuisti animam meam ex inferno inferiori c. Si ergo Dominus legem mortuorum servavit ut fieret primo-genitus à mortuis commoratus usque in tertiam diem in inferioribus terrae post deinde surgens in carne ut etiam figuras clavoruÌ„ ostenderet discipulis sit ascendit ad patrem quomodo non confundenter qui diâ—unt inferos quidem esse hunc mundum qui sit secundum nos interiorem autem hominem ipsorum derelinquentem hic corpus in supercaelestem ascendere locum cum enim dominus in medio umbrae mortis abierit ubi animae mortuorum erant post deinde corporaliter resurrexit post resurrectionem assumptus est manifestum est quia discipulorum ejus propter quos haec operatus est Dominus animae abibunt in invisibilem locum definitum eis a Deo ibi usque ad resurrectionem commorabuntur sustinentes resurrectionem Post recipientes corpora perfecte resurgentes hoc est corporaliter quemadmodum dominus resurrexit sic veniet ad conspectum Dei Nemo enim est discipulus super magistrum perfectus autem omnis erit sicut magister ejus Quomodo ergo magister noster non statim evolans abiit sed sustinens definitum a patre resurrectionis suae tempus quod per Jonam manifestum est post triduum resurgens assumpted est sic nos sustinere debemus à d definitum a Deo resurrectionis nostrae tempus praenunciatum à prophetis sic resurgentes assumi quotquot Dominus hoc dignos habuerit Thesence of the latter part is this If therefore the Lord kept the law of the dead that he might become the first begotten from the dead and abode in the lower parts of the earth untill the third day and then after arising in the flesh that also he might shew to his Disciples the figures of the keys he forascendeth to the Father so that they should not be confounded who affirm hell to be this world which to us is so but here the body forsaking the inward man it ascends into a super-celestial place that is the Spirit For when the Lord departed in the middest of the shadow of death where the soules of the dead were he after arose bodily and after his resurrection assumed as is manifest because the soules of his Disciples for whom the Lord did these things departed into an invisible place appointed them of God and there are to remain untill the resurrection expecting it after receiving their bodies they perfectly arise that is bodily as the Lord arose and so shall come into the sight of the Lord. No Disciple is above his Master but will be perfect if he be as his Master as therefore our Master forthwith did not fly forth and depart but bearing the appointed time of his resurrection from the Father which was also manifested by Jonas who arising after three daies was taken up so we also ought to beare the defined time of our resurrection set of God and foretold of the Prophets and so rising as many as the Lord account worthy to be assumed In this yee may see how the times neare Christ taught of death and the soule and the spirit I confesse I saw not this in any of the Fathers untill I had written what goeth before many things herein I cannot assent unto though most I have on the Scriptures cited before applyed the Lord give thee judgement and understanding herein that thou mayst know the truth and worship God therein Tertull. saith thus of the soule in lib. resurrect Quasi nos seorsum ab anima simus cum totum quod sumus anima sit Denique sive anima nihil sumus ne hominis quidem sed cadaveris nomen si ergo ignoramus animam ipsa se ignorat and yet wee know not the soule nor nothing lesse then it In his book on the first Epistle to the Thessalonians against Marcion Apostolus optans ut spiritus noster corpus anima sine querela in adventu Domini conserventur nam animam posuit corpus tam duas res quam diversas licet enim animae corpus sit aliquod suae qualitatis sicut spiritus In which I suppose he strangely erres and knew little of that which he thought every man that knew any thing knew very well the nature of the spirit being far differing from the soule as the soule from the body De Resurrectione habet enim de suo solummodo cogitare velle cupere disponere ad perficiendum operam carnis expectat sic ad patiendum societatem carnis expostulat c. Ireneus Lib 5. Cap. 1. Suo igitur sanguine redimente nos Domine dante animam suam pro anima nostra carnem suam pro nostris carnibus effundente spiritum patris in admissionem communionem Dei hominum c. Ibid. Ut ab initio plasmationis nostrae in Adam eaquae fuit â Deo inspiratio vitae unita plasmati animavit hominem Animal rationabile ostendit sic in fine verbum patris spiritus Dei adunit us antiquae substantiae plasmationis Adae viventem perfectum efficit hominem capientem mortui sumus sic in spirituali omnes vivificemur Ibid. Si mortale non vivificat corruptibile non revocat ad incorruptelam jam non potens est Deus Idem Perfecius autem homo commixio adunitio est animae assumentis spiritum patris admixtae in carne quae est plasma secundum imaginem Dei Ibid. Cum autem spiritus hic commixtus animae unitur plasmati propter effusionem spiritus spiritualis perfectus homo factus est hic est qui secundum imaginem similitudinem Dei factus est si autem defuerit animae spiritus animalis est vere qui est talis carnalis derelictus imperfectus est imaginem quidem habens in plasmate similitudinem vero non assumens per spiritum Idem Sunt ex quibus perfectus homo constat carne anima spiritu Ibidem Quid est aut quid ut granum tritici seminatur
this generation is made fit for it Act. 2.17 18. By which men shall prophesie I speak not this to glory in but to glorifie God in it and in his accomplishing his truth of which Husse had sweet experiences as his Letters testifies cited by Fox 1 I speak not this to countenance any fancies or corruptions among men try the spirits if they are of God Therefore 2 I speak it that men take heed least they scoffe at the grace of God and his gifts as those Act. 2.13 a worke which is done to the griefe of the spirit in grosse manner amongst us and that among the learned for which as a judgement it is kept from the world and men hindred from looking to God for it 3 I speak it to incourage those that have it to see if they have the spirit of Christ and then to look on this as the seale of God to that Christ hath done in thee and on thee to thy exceeding joy 4 When God shall restore the Church and this glorious mercy in its glory to men how will they then wonder at the enmity and evil that was in the world reigning among those men who professed themselves Saints and Sons of God having the spirit in them Note Because man is carnall and needs helps even in these that are comparatively but earthly things compared with other divine mysteries of God and Christ I commend these considerations 1 The unknown excellency of the spirit of a man as in Paul 1 Cor. 5.3 4. For I verily as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present Note Though absent in body yet was he present in spirit though his body being at Phillippi was one hundred of miles from them 2 His presence in spirit was such as that it was as sufficient as if he had been bodily judging the man with them Vers 4. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ when you are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Colos 2.5 For though I am absent in the flesh yet am I present in the Spirit with you a place in which Paul never was ver 1. joying and beholding your order and stedfastnesse of faith in Christ Now thus far the spirit of a man may doe even be present with men afar off from his body and joy in their good and suffer in their sufferings though it can but look on it it is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus that acts in and over all onely who is not onely a spectator or stander by in his spirituall presence among the Saints but walks among the seven golden Candlesticks and acts and knocks c. Againe 1 Cor. 14.32 The spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets First Conclusion That there is a notable place here to say with Solomon Who knoweth the spirit of a man Eccles 3.21 2 If in the spirit of man is such an unknown excellency how then is the Spirit of Christ 3 God making Christ and fitting him with such a Spirit by which he might raise the dead spirit and communicate himselfe to it and be alway present with it through the operation and assistance of the infinite God dwelling in him 1 Cor. 15. ver 45. God making this the end of making Christ Isa 11.23 4 Whiles Christ John 17.11 saith I am no more in the world that is in soule and body yet he saith ver 23. I in them and thou in me which must be in his Spirit speaking of himselfe as distinct from God in the person of the Mediator Of the naturall spirits of Men. THese are differing in themselves the bodies differ not in height beauty and strength in quality and condition of constitution as a Gyant from a Dwrafe as a strong man differs from him that is never so weak and the most beautifull and personable man differs not from the most deformed Blackmore so much as one natural mans spirit from anoâ—â—â—r Some are strong some weak some rash some patient some proud some humble some cruel some meek some well some sick some high some low In which corruptly remain the appearances of the seven Spirits of God Isa 11.2 Wisdom Might Knowledge Understanding as a capacity to receive them or the Spirit of Christ in whom all these treasures are Of whose unknown worth the Scriptures speak Eccles 3.21 Who knoweth the spirit of a man Eccles 11.5 There is not to thee the knowledge of the way of the spirit nor how the bones of him doth grow that are in the womb c. which proves it is spoke of the naturall spirit of man Note it clears that objection that may be made How doth the spirit of a man his body being in one place come to be in another And shews 1 The spirit hath a way of its own that the body hath not 2 The way of it is unknown to any even the wisest 3 Especially to those who know not that they have a spirit at all in them 4 To all such who though they know they have it in them yet it is dead and never found the use of them Note The use of the spirit is excellent Prov. 18.14 it being the spirit of naturall man that bears his infirmities as the Spirit of Christ in the beleever bears his The good man is said to have another spirit as differing from the natural mans Numb 14.24 compared with Chap. 13.30 31. shew how the spirit in a man doth change him and make him differ from others It is a great question may bee made Whether Christs humane Spirit was not in being before it was joyned to the flesh soule in the Virgins wombe 1. 1 Pet. 1.11 The Spirit of Christ is said to have been in the Prophets of old which is that part of the Lord which was oynted as distinct from the anointing of the Holy Spirit 2 Because it is said the spirit of Christ is the spirit of Prophesie 3. John 3.13 The Son of man is said as man to come down from heaven which was that part of him called his Spirit which also now whiles he is on earth is said to be in heaven as the Son of man 4 The God-head cannot be said to go a loce ad locum 5 The Scripture speaks of Christ in his being to the Saints long before his incarnation Isa 63.9 6 How Christ is Rev. 1.4 He which is and was and is to come c. ver 8. that he is Alpha and Omega 7 That he is the first fruits and the foundation of the Church 8. 1 Cor. 15.47 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How he is said to be from heaven and in what and how to be the second Man and whether he had not in spirit a being when first promised Adam 9 Before Abraham was I am saith the Lord speaking as Mediator Joh. 10.58 Vers 56. Abraham rejoyced to see my day and saw it and was glad Ver. 57. Thou art not fifty years old and hast thou