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
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
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
THE UNKNOWN BEING OF THE Spirit Soul and Body ANATOMIZED WHEREIN Very many Scriptures falsly Translated and corruptly Interpreted are clearly Explained By which many Doctrines now taught that subvert the Faith of the Gospel are discovered Written by him that is unworthy to be a Witness of Divine Truth JOHN BRAYNE LONDON Printed for Richard Moon at the Seven Stars in Pauls Church-yard near the great North-door 1654. TO My very Noble Friend Colonel John Pine Noble Sir YOur being avocated from bearing the Burthen of the People which for so many yeares in the Two late Parliaments and Parliamentary Trust first and last lay on you invited me to commend this insuing Treatise to you As serving much to make a Man wise in leading him to the Knowledge of Himselfe Not after the way of the Schools but of God in which the use of Christ is rightly knowne and Salvation clearly seen according to the Grace of God and Jesus Christ in the Gospell To which high Mystery I commend you to direct your choicest Thoughts and remaine Yours to serve and honor you in the Work of the LORD JOHN BRAYNE January the 18th 1653. A DISCOVERY OF THE Unknown Being of the Spirit and Soul of Man BEcause I finde that the darkness occasioned by the not right understanding of Man in his true nature of Being is very great the Scriptures strangely vailed the Doctrine taught wonderfully corrupted and the right use of Christ detained from the spirits of men I thought my self bound to publish this ensuing Treatise the ground whereof I lay down in the words of the Apostle 1 Thess 5.23 The very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved c. In the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if ye take away and divide any part of these it is only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of which saith Ireneus Lib. 5. cap. 1. Neque enim plasmatio carnis ipsa secundum se homo perfectus est sed corpus hominis pars hominis neque anima ipsa secundum se homo sed anima hominis pars hominis neque spiritus homo spiritus enim non homo vocatur commixtio autem unitio horum omnium perfectum hominem efficit propter hoc Apostolus seipsum exponens explanavit perfectam spiritualem salutem hominis in I ad Thess cap. 5. vers 23 c. Vide August lib. quest cap. 67. These three before the Spirit Soul and Body are three distinct essential parts of Man which I shall speak in order particularly unto But before I do that it is necessary I should shew you how the life and the breath in Man are distinguished by God in the Scripture which will shew us that men need not that have the Word of God to go to Aristotle Plato c. to learn Philosophy they were in the dark and knew it not a thing in time God will purge out of this Nation it being forbid in the Word by God expresly Levit. 18.3 Ye shall not do after the doings of Egypt and Canaan nor walk in thier Ordinances Levit. 20.23 Ye shall not walk in the manners of the Nations I cast out Hence the houses of learning set up among the Jews were houses of the Prophets that is such houses in which the Prophets were first taught to be read and written and then understood and other learning then this God allowed not nor doth allow his own people and other houses then these are not houses of the Prophets whose Students by an Hebraism are called children of the Prophets 2 King 4.38 as those study the Heathens are the sons of Aristotle Matt. 11.15 1. We need know no more then is in the Word that is onely necessary 2. In the Word things are more excellently layd down then in all the writings of the world 3. That is full of Truth Aristotle Ovid c. full of Corruption and Error and Atheism fit to make Atheists as all by Nature are more Atheistical corrupting them in their minds at the first receiving of instruction against Solom 4. The Word is light Philosophy of the Heathens darkness 1. The Soul and the Life are distinguished Psal 33.19 To deliver their Soul from death and keep them alive in famine Vatablus Hebraismus est pro servet eos in vita Thus Psa 49.18 He blessed his Soul in his life in which are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Job 33.18 He keepeth back 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his soul from the pit and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his life from perishing by the sword Vers 20. His life abhorreth bread and his soul desâ—rable meat Vers 22. His soul draweth neer to the grave and his life to the destroyers The Seventy render them by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 28. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life shall see the light Vide Vers 30. The spirit of man from the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 The Life and the Breath are distinguished Acts 17.25 God that giveth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to all life and breath and all things Rom. 8.2 Rev. 11.11 1. Note here As the Soul and Life are distinguished in words and Being by the Prophets so Life and Breath by the Apostle 2. Life by James is set forth as a far inferior thing to the Soul James 4.13 14. speaks against mens presumptuous dependance on the Being of their life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is your life for it is but a vapor for a little time appearing and after that it vanisheth This cannot be said of the Soul nor of the breath Act. 8.33 3. Here in this ye have such a definition of life as all the Platonists and Aristotelists on Earth cannot exceed nor on like grounds attain unto but in comparison of this theirs is vain Philosophy This being undeniable truth 1. There is matter ariseth hence of exceeding great note and concernment to all men which is the gross corrupting of the Word of God in the false translating of it the Translators putting down in a hundred places neer life for soul rendering 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 life and sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soul which ought not to be the word and sence is destroyed by it and false Doctrine taught to the people wherefore in especial there is an extream necessity for another Translation to be published and this called in The Old Testament in this particular is better translated then the New though some such is in the Old as that the minde of God is no way expressed but clear contrary things as one especial place I have expounded and fitted for the Press to publish but had not where with to do it which is of high concernment to the people of God and for the Opening of the Prophecies 2. The Breath is as a ligament by which Soul Spirit and Body are kept together and is one both that
and men sowing to the flesh Note Salomon Eccles 6.7 All the labour of the Adam is for his mouth yet his soule is not satisfied 1 In these words are the Adam body and nephes the soule 2 What the Adams labour is for it is for his mouth that is meat to give it 3 After it is in the mouth then it comes to the soule that is not satisfied with what the hands can get either it is not sweet enough or good enough or it hath not quantity enough for to keep him many years Having got one thousand why it is not enough it would have ten thousand yea all the world Prov. 27.20 The eyes of man are never satisfied the body serves an ill Master in the soule it is like Death and Hell whiles it is carnally minded What shall I eate what shall I drink what shall I have to morrow next yeare he thought he had pleased his soule well Luk. 12.18 19. Psal 66.9 He holdeth our soule in life 1 The soule and life are distinct 2 The soule of all are held in life or they would dye 3 God it is holds our soule in life and suffers not our feet that is the bodily being to be moved Psa 78.50 and 1.16.8 and 22.19 Ester 7.3 She prayed for the soule of Ahasuerus Psal 22.29 All they that goe down to the dust shall bow before him and his soule is not living or none can keep alive his own soule 1 The body goeth down to the dust 2 They are said as dying men to bowe and stoop to God Isa 10.4 vide Pagnine on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 The soul that is not alive none when the body goeth to dust can keep alive his own soule 4 This John 19.30 was fulfilled in Christ he bowed the head and gave up the spirit man bows before he dyes Gen. 49.33 and thence are stretched out after death Acts 27.10 I perceâ—ve that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage not only of the lading of the ship but also of our soules 1 The soules were subject to losse and ruine as ship and goods 2 If the soule were immortall then he would not have put the goods and soule in the same state as in ver 22. there shall be no losse of any soule that is none shall die Rom. 2.5.16 Shews in this chapter the day of Judgement is looked on and spoken of Ver. 6. When God renders to every man according to his deeds Ver. 8 9. Then on every soule that is contentious and doth disobey the truth shall be tribulation and anguish And first shews that untill then the soul of man suffers none of these 2 If it were immortall it should doe as well as the spirit 1 Pet. 3.19 which proves the spirit immortall the soul mortall The next Generall that proves the mortality of the souls is 1 That it is joyned with the flesh and called flesh 2 That when dis-joyned it is called blood which pertains to flesh and divided by the word flesh 1 The Scripture cals the Soule and Body flesh Gen. 6.3 My spirit shall not alwaies strive with man for that hee also is flesh the words may be better read thus My spirit shall not strive in man for ever because that he is flesh by which the 1 Pet. 3.19 is only to be interpreted 1 Note the spirit was dead what else was in man was of a fleshly nature yea God cals it flesh 2 Though he cals man Adam as if he meant his body yet after saying hee he comprehended soule and body as all flesh was in being in him 3 While man is flesh there is but a striving with them and as it were an outstanding by them of the spirit called a resisting of the spirit Act. 7.51 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fall against the holy spirit Matth. 26.41 The spirit is willing the flesh is weak 1 Flesh and spirit are opposed onely the soule not mentioned 2 The soule is fleshly in good men not spiritual and therefore is to be understood in flesh and not in the word spirit 3 Whereas it saith weake only it speaks of the inclinations of the soul not the flesh Rom. 7.18 In me that is in my flesh dwels not any good thing John 6.63 It is the spirit quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing 1 Here are only two parts as before 2 It signifies that where the spirit is not a quickening spirit there the flesh and soule profits not 3 That the first resurrection is of the spirit the next of soule and body and that of the soule and body without this of the spirit profits not but rather aggravates its misery and woe 2 When it speaks of the naturall man whose spirit is dead and so is said not to be Gen. 42.13 as Joseph whom his brethren thought was dead is said not to bee so the spirit in naturall man being dead hee is called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if he had no spirit 1 Cor. 2.14 and 15.44 It is distinguished by flesh for the body and soule for the blood The Reasons of it 1 Blood is the soule of Beasts or the soule is said to be in the blood 2 Blood is the seat of the soule of man it is called the blood soule Prov. 28.17 he that hath done violence to the blood soule shall flye to the pit Deut. 27.26 1 Here is violence to the blood 2 That is done to the blood is done to the soule Note In this is the dâ—stinction of the soule of man and beast 1 The beasts blood and soule were together out of the earth at once 2 Mans blood was out of the earth but his soule by which that blood came to be inanimated was from God yet the blood in man was the seat of the soule as in beasts 3 Yet in Gen. 9.5 It is spoken closely hereunto thou shalt not eate the flesh with his soule his blood Gen. 9.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Which shewes the grosnesse of the nature of the soule and its fleshy kind 2 It shews how we are to understand the word blood when set down in opposition to and distinguished from the flesh or body of man and therefore called the blood of the soule to shew that when the blood was spoke of the soule was intended thereby not the body Matth. 16.17 Flesh and blood hath not revealed this to thee 1 If by flesh and blood be nothing else here intended but that one part of man his Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 body it is clear this without the spirit knowes nothing 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The soule man that hath body and soule knows not the things of God of which here the spirit speaks 1 Cor. 2.14 3 Hence by flesh I understand the body 4 By blood the soule 5 These two by any innate power of their own or acquired habits cannot manifest to the spirit the mystery of God and salvation by Jesus Christ 6 The soul is so dead that
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
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
weep the child is not dead but sleepeth In Ver. 35. the Text saith she is dead And Ver. 40. They derided Christ for saying she was not dead but slept may they say doe yee call this a sleep it is a deadly one know yee no better when a man sleeps from when he is dead for which they were shut out and not suffered to see the salvation of God 1 Christ he speaks here of their sorrow and howling 2 Of her soules estate not bodies and that they had no cause to lament thus for her shee was not of the number of dead soules that dyed without hope but of the living soules that sleep by Jesus 3 That this is the mind of the spirit in this place ver 41. he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which shews she was in body dead and was raised by the Lord Jesus not only from the place she lay down on but from the dead 1 Thes 4.14 16. Doe set forth a distinction as in the body and soul so in Christs vertue extended to them 1 The souls are said to sleep 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per Jesum by or through Jesus if it were not for Jesus they would be as the rest not asleep but dead where now they are not dead but sleep 2 The bodies they are dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Christ Jesus is applyed to the soules salvation and Christ to the body though elsewhere this distinction is not used but 1 Cor. 15.16 If the dead are not raised Christ is not raised Ver. 18. those that fleep in Christ are destroyed here the sleepers or souls are said to sleep in Christ Resp The Apostle 1 Thes 4.14 Saith by Christ setting out the efficient and meritorious cause of mans sleep to be Jesus who delivered it from its death and gave it sleep 2 The soule may be said as well as body to sleep in Christ by the power of Jesus salvation 3 This here of 1 Cor. 15.18 is a supposition 1 Shewing that if they slept in Christ and rose not they slept not by Jesus they had not effectually salvation by him 2 The soule and body were destroyed 3 The dead and sleepers are distinguished in the 16 and 18. verses Note only in the Epistle of the Thessalonians he speakes to men beleeving and assenting in this of the Corinthians to men doubting questioning contradicting which is the ground of that difference seems to be in his speech 1 Cor. 15.20 Note by this only that 1 Cor. 15.20 is most significantly opened where it is said Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep That is Christ in his soule was the first was raised from sleep and entered into heaven and ascended to his Father with his dead body made alive 1 Where the controversie of Enoch and Elias going to Heaven before Christs resurrection is to be allowed of without questioning this Scripture-Truth for it was of those that sleepe Christ was the first fruits he saith not of others that slept not as Enoch and Elias did not 2 That this must be the soule not the spirit for that goeth to God immediately of all Saints 3 Nor of the body that is dead in the grave nor is he said to be the first fruits of the dead because the souls not the bodys estate distinguisheth the Saints from unbeleevers in themselves the one is as wel dead rots and corrupts as the other but the soul of one sleeps the other is dead Object The soule while in the body is called the souls but when it departs it is called the spirit because distinct from the body Resp The soule is called the soule after death as well as before 2 The spirit is called the spirit in the body and out of it when joyned to the soule and body 3 It is not one thing in the body and another out of it And here I cannot passe by a mystery not yet clear to the world in expressing the word for the dead in the plurall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Sometimes as alluding to mankind among which Christ lay and from among whom Christ was raised 2 Othertimes as Rom. 1.4 being declared to be the son of God in power according to the spirit of sanctification through the resurrection of the deads that is his dead body and dead soule 3. Luk. 7.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The dead sate up speaking only of the body that part sate up and therefore expressed in the singular number 4 When Christ is said to rise from the dead in the plural or any other I understand their soules rising from dead soules with whom their souls were being in their state as of one of them And I understand their bodies rising from dead bodys with whom they were as one of them during their estate of death 5 This I take thus to be cleared man consists of spirit soule and body who have differing lives subject to differing deaths from which deaths man by Christ comes to be redeemed in differing ways by differing means 6 In our translations deads should be put for dead when expressed in the plurall and in the singular when by the spirit set downe so in the originall Application of this point of the blood of Christ as it concerns the Soul of Christ it is of admirable use and concernment to us 2. General As Christ communicates his Spirit so his Body Matth. 26.26 Mark 14.22 Luke 22.19 1. 1 Cor. 10.16 The Bread that we break c. 2. 1 Cor. 11.29 Unbelievers discerned not the Lords Body in the Bread and it was the sin of the Capernaits that cry out How can this man give us of his flesh to eat 3. For not discerning the Lords Body they were guilty that did partake of the Sacrament of the afflictings and tormentings the Jews put him to 1 Cor. 11.27 4. The necessity of its being received when in the way of God because the Lord enjoyned it to be done in remembrance of him And farther John 6.53 If ye eat not the flesh and drink not the blood of the Son of Man ye have no life in you vid. Vers 54,55 Note The flesh is communicated to our flesh as flesh as his Spirit to our spirit but the flesh without the spirit profiteth nothing or the Spirit quickneth the dead spirit and the flesh feedeth those made alive when living not before 3. General Christ having a Spirit and Body communicates them and shews the necessity of our partaking of them Quaere Whether Christ having a Soule it be not as necessary we be partakers of that as of the other parts of Christ if we expect Salvation by him 2. Whether the soul be not communicated in the blood of Christ or whether there be any other way of communion of it 3. Whether our communion of the blood of Christ be not of inestimable price use and comfort to us and to be remembred of us 4. Whether his soul was not poured out to dâ—ath as well
as body crucified and broken The third part of man is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Adam respects the matter éx qua as it was in its form as fitted for the Spirit and soule its informing forme 2 Ephar respects the matter ex qua out of which God at first took the Adam and gave it its form 3 Basar respects the body of man abstractively from soule and spirit as it was after it became a living soule every part being flesh 4 Sooma is spoken of relatively as it is the Tabernacle of the soule and spirit having compleatly in it all the members that make up a perfect man in the bodily part 1 This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lives who was made of dust 2 It is said Gen. 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which words I thus read and there was to the soule of Adam life so as that the soul was of the Adam the earth 3 This flesh is contrary to the spirit between which the soule is placed who respects the flesh in its inferiour parts and the Spirit in its superiour These two are contrary 4 The flesh maintains a war with the regenerate soule 1 Pet. 2. 5 The fleshly estate is such men cannot therein please God Rom. 8.8 and Rom. 8.6 7. the wisdom thereof is death and is excluded the Kingdome 6 Man owes nothing to the flesh to live thereto Rom. 8.12 7. Ephes 6.5 Masters are said to be Masters according to the flesh In which was fignified First That their dominion was onely over the flesh to command it and on disobedience to punish them in the flesh Secondly As the Magistrate called the higher power had command over the soule of man Thirdly The Spirit that was onely under the Lord in which sence it is that he that is called to be a Servant is the Lords Freeman that is in his spirit estate for if the Son hath made you free then are you free indeed Note by which 1. No man is naturally free 2 No man by any means can make himself free to any spirituall good 3 The best man is made free by Jesus Christ 4 The freedome from Christ is that freedome indeed in which the dominion of Satan is destroyed 3 There is a freedome which is not a freedome indeed as in carnal natural ordinary things when the soule is so in bondage to Satan that it cannot have leave to restraine it from evil or to act any good 4 The natural service or bondage of the flesh was first inflicted on Cham by his fathers sentence for mocking of him in his nakednesse after wine 5 His curse was he should be a Servant of Servants serving such as served Satan and sin in the lusts of the flesh which was indeed to be a drudge to the De vill manifested in the flesh Note this that flesh is of the flesh Joh. 3.6 Heb. 12.9 1 It withers and dyes and is thence called mortall flesh 2 Cor. 4.11 yet Ephes 5.29 no man hateth his owne flesh 2 Being dead it resolves againe into its first matter which is dust and differs herein from the death of soule and spirit 3 It corrupts alive and dead and is very noysom to its self and others to see or smell of 4 It shewes their vanity that glory after the flesh 2 Cor. 11.18 Note John 1.14 1 The word was made or became flesh Heb 2.14 of the seed of David according to the flesh 2 In this flesh God manifested himselfe 1 Tim. 3.16 3 In the body consisting of Bones Nerves Sinewes covered by the flesh called the body of his flesh He hath reconciled us by death 4 The time of Christs being here with men are called the days of his flesh Heb. 5.7 5 The Jewish Antichrist was he that denyed Christ come in the flesh 1 Joh. 4.2 The Gentile Antichrist took the authority and place of Christ to himselfe 2 Thes 2. the Jewish Antichrist is indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Joh. 7. 6. 2 Cor. 5.16 We have known Christ after the flesh henceforth know we him no more 7. Heb. 10.20 The flesh is called the vaile of Christ by which the God-head and glory of Christ came to be shadowed from the eyes of those unbeleeving mortals the Lord had to doe with whiles he was among men here below 8 By which he is said to prepare a new and living way for man to God men before coming to God by Aaron and bringing Beasts and Fruits and Fowle not appearing before God empty which God on the Sons assuming flesh Heb. 10.8 9. rejected now the new way because the other waxed old and was done away took place no man more with the sacrifice of beasts being to appear before God but the body God had prepared Christ to be a Sacrifice for us to which the Apostle alludes Heb. 9.8 the Spirit the holy signifying this that as yet the way of the Holies was not made manifest whiles the first Tabernacle was standing 9 Christ was put to death in the flesh 1 Pet. 3.18 and 4.1 Note the flesh though it is the meaner and baser part of man yet it had means applyed to it of God for sanctification and is said to be the Temple of the Holy Spirit 1 In the Lords taking our flesh in which it was exalted above the nature of Angels it being assumed to the divine nature of God God and Man making one Saviour 2 Among the Ordinances under the Law was circumcision of the flesh 3 The Law of the Ten Commandements was a fleshly Commandement though of a spiritual nature it being to judge the flesh by and direct the body 4 The blood of Buls and Goats that washed away the filth of the flesh which I take not to respect the outward uncleannesse contracted by any natural pollution but soule-pollution for all pollution is comprehended under filthinesse of the flesh and spirit which I take thus to be done 1 That there being sin committed by which pollution was contracted the soule could not draw near to God without some flaine beast for an offering by which the flesh was said to be cleansed and preserved from that filth brought death corporal 2 The Spirit shews it was the blood of Christ offered up by the eternal Spirit to God cleansed the Conscience from sins presenting it blameless to God which the other offerings could not do by the other they came to God but not as by this Now under the Gospell Baptisme is an Ordinance said to exceed these 1 Pet. 3.21 where to baptize is a type and now saveth us being not the putting away of the spot of the flesh but the Answer of a good Conscience to God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 3 Yet the flesh of Christ profits nothing those to whom the Spirit of Christ is not given so that all mankind who have not his Spirit have no profit by his flesh