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

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

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

resurrection of the dead 2. Others do imagine that the soul perisheth when the body dies 3. But the Sripture proveth plainly that the soul being loosed from ihe body doth forthwith either ascend to glory or descend to tormment not that the soul receiveth the perfection of its estate till the Resurrection yet doth the soul enjoy either reall blisse or miserie when the bodie dies in part which after the day of resurection shall be absolute both of soul and body The bodie indeed dieth as Paul saith because of sin but the soul dieth not Rom. 8. CHAP. IX Sheweth that the soules remain●… where they are sent till the Resurrection 1 SOme beleeve that the souls of persons deceased have often times apeared 2 Others have declared that Sacrifices and prayers of the living have much profited the soules of men th●… were dead 3. The Lord doth forbid to aske or to seek any truth of the Spirits 〈◊〉 the dead The Prophets do send 〈◊〉 from such Oracles to the Law and Testimony of Gods Word The Evangelists teach us in the Gospel th●… those that are dead rise not again i●… apparitions Obeict But many partly by A●… Magicke have been raised as Samuel 1 Sam. 28. Answ. Chrisostome answereth thi●… objection very fully The questio●… being asked What shall we say 〈◊〉 those voyces which say I am such ●… soul He answers That voice sait●… he which speaketh these things is no●… the soul of any parson departed but it is the Devill which doth faine these things to deceive the hearers Such words are to be Counted Old wives tales and foolish fables of Children for the soul separate from the body faith B. Alley doth not wander in this world for the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God and the souls of sinners after their departure are presently carried to their place of torment Obiect But the souls of some have returned again into their bodies after departure and they have lived on earth again As Lasarus Iohn 11. To this objection Tertul makes answer saying Although the power of God hath called again certain souls into their bodies in token of his might and right This was done in example of the Resurrection when the power of God whether by the Prophets or by Christ or else by the Apostles did render soules then into their bodies it is declared by the sensible and sufficient truth that this is the very form of the truth that thou maist iudg every incorporat apparition of the dead to be deceits delusions CHAP. X. Treateth of the inward vertues and faculties of the bodie THe inward vertues and faculties of the body are such which stirre up the powers to action Which are of three sorts The first cometh from the brain and sedeth the sence and moving into all the body through the muscles and nerves by motion which feedeth all the senses outwardly and the imagination reason and memory inwardly The second carrieth life through all the body which either dilateth the hart and arteries from whence mirt●… and love ariseth or else doth constrain and binde the arteries and heart from whence ariseth melancholy sadnesse and revenge The third cometh from the liver and sendeth the nourishment through all the body which doth 1. attract tha●… which is proper 2. retain that which is d●…awn 3. digest that which is retaine●… 〈◊〉 expell that which is hurtfull as Low saith CHAP. XI Treateth of the vitall spiritg of the body THe substance of the spirits in mans body is the most pure and thinnest of the blood which passeth through all the body to the effect the members may do their proper actions abounding most in the heart arteries braines and nerves which are of three sorts The first rem●…ineth in the braine which passeth from thence to the ears other parts but chiefly to the eyes Therefore these who are ●…linde have their other vertues more strong The second is that which is in the heart and Arteries and is made of the evaporations of the blood and of the aire laboured in the lig●…s by the force of vitall heat and thereafter is diffused through the members for the Conservation of the naturall heate The third is that which is ingendred in the liver and vaines and there remaineth while theliver maketh the blood and other naturall operations The use of it is to helpe the conconcoction As saith Lowe CHAP. XII Treateth of the perturbations and passions of the minds THe minde being governed by reason is preserved from extremity in passion But being without reason such passions and perturbations do●… arise which bringeth great mutations into the naturall heate in so much that as some have written many dye by the passions and perturbations of the minde This is caused when the passions of the midne doth either dilate or comprimce the heart for the vitall spirits and cast forth by the great dilation of the heart as also retained by the great Compression thereof As for example Joy Hope Love c. These being out of reason do through the passion of the minde so dilate the heart that they cast forth the spirits And sadnesse fear envie c. do recall the vitall spirits inwardly to the center of the body whence many times ensueth death CHAP. XII Treateth of the particular passions of the minde THe particular passions of the minde are many but chiefly these Mirth Sadnesse Fear anger Shamefastnesse Envy Hatred Hope Love c. I. Mirth or Joy is an affection of the minde of a thing good and pleasant by the which the blood and spirits are pleasantly spread for the present by the dilation of the heart but if it be great and last any long space death often ensueth because the heart is altogether destitute of blood As a Pollicritia b Phillipedes and many others who have died through extremity of joy 2. Sadnesse is an affection that doth revoke the naturall heate inwardly to the Center of the body which in time presseth the heart and drieth up the body hindreth the government of the spirit vitall which is sometimes so weakne●… that it is not able to go with the blood through the rest of the body so wasteth the body in such sort that it becommeth attrified and leane wherupon death often insueth 3. Feare is a motion which revoketh the spirits to the heart the Center of the body whereby the naturall heat is suffocated causing trembling which sometimes causeth many women to that are with childe fall in labour somtimes * through feare death ensueth to men or women 4. Anger is a sudden revocation or calling backe of the spirits to the externall parts with an appetite of revenge It inflameth the whole habitude of the body the spirits and blood are troubled as also the braines it bindeth the heart and lights Whereof Dangerous siknesses

are often caused and sometimes death ensueth 5. Shamefastnesse is a motion whereby one knoweth or suspecteth some notise to bee taken of one for the same fault for which he would be be angry with himselfe In this passion the blood first returneth in saith Haly Abbas and sodainly cometh out again which maketh the Cheeks often very redde lib. 5. Of this passion some dy●… As Diod●… Homer and others 6. Envy is a heavy oppression of the heart angry at some conceived good thing an other doth enjoy 7. Hatred is an old malicious habitude bred of anger by the which the heart would revenge the injurie 8. Hope is a motion by the which the heart desireth the good ●…ure it openeth and dilateth the heart 9. Love is a fervent motion by the which the heart desireth 〈◊〉 and endeavoureth to draw unto it a conceived good assuredly and apparantly as Lowe saith CHAP XIV Sheweth how the faculties of the soul are distinguished from the faculties of the minde THe soul is not of any corporall substance but spirituall as hath beene shewed before therefore the pure faculties of the soule must needs be spirituall also The faculties of the minde of the internall part of the body of man is of a naturall disposition as the body it self is whole greatest chiefest guide is at the highest but reason Therefore as God that is spirituall is infinitely more glorious in his divine essence then can be conceived in mans reason so is the faculties of the soul of a farre higher nature then the faculties of the minde can reach That of the soul is spirituall that of the minde is carnall CHAP. XV Sheweth how the flesh is led by the spirit or the spirit by the flesh VVHen all the faculties of the soul and all the powers of the body do minde fleshly things then is the soulled by the flesh but when all the faculties of the minde are set on spirituall things then are the powers of the flesh led by the spirit As for example If the divell present a man with some object of sin as Lust Covetousnesse Pride Envie Murther ●…tc If the love hereof be so great and earnest that this man runs headlong to the act hereof without consideration then doth he so bind the faculties of the soul that he captivates them under the bondage of the flesh but if he resist these sins to which he is entised by advising and deeply considering in his soul the evill thereof then is the flesh overcome and led by the spirit These combates between the flesh and the spirit are dive as but according to the love or hatred we ●…ear to the thing about which we strive so will the minde be affected or disaffected therewith and advance the prosecution thereof accordingly whither it be ●…les aly or spirituall When a man doth apprehend something in his thoughts being moved thereto either by outward sence or inward motion when the will is ready presently either to chuse or refuse it this ariseth from the flesh but when the understanding brings it first to the judgement and comparing it with the role of Gods word without any affection ●…o the thing other then the Word doth approve or disapprove thereof and so doth will desire and seek after it this is of the spirit CHAP. XVI Treateth of the Resurrection of the Body IT is to be understood that there is a naturall body and there is a spirituall body as Paul saith The naturall body is the first which we haveby generation from our parents The spirituall body is that which is la●… 〈◊〉 so by Christ 〈◊〉 when we are first estated in grace in this world but the bodies of the e●…ect shall be ma●…e so when they ●…scend into heaven for this corruptible body of flesh and bloud cannot inherit the Kingdome of heaven When the elect dye their naturall bodies are as seed ●…wn in the ground but at the resurrection they shall be raised in their spirituall bo●…es without 〈◊〉 imperfections or any deformity they shall hav●… their sen●… made pure and be rais●…d with an heavenly and spirituall bod●… c●…pable of inheriting heaven and ●…ith Christ shall as●…d to i●…mortal joy to all Eternity Every part that is in 〈◊〉 bodie o●… Gods Elect shall r●…se without all deformity 〈◊〉 superfluity wha●…soever as Augustine saith That the 〈◊〉 so often 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 so often paired shall not with deformity come again ●…o their places when the body riseth at the day of judgement and where the Lord saith one haire of our head shall not p●…sh it is not s●…oken of the length of our hairs but of the number of them for all the hairs of our head are numbred The age and quantity of the bodies when they shall rise again saith Austine shall be in that measure in the measure of perfect state of youth even in the measure of the age of the ful●…sse of Christ that is the age to which Christ came All shall rise again as the 〈◊〉 have written in the age in which Christ dyed and rose again in 〈◊〉 ●…oever they die CHAP. XVII 〈◊〉 of Hell HEll signifieth a Pit a grave death it se●… the sta●…e of the dead hell and the place of the damned spirits 1. Hell signifieth a grave having relation to the body 2. Hell signifieth the horrible dismaying of the minde and feeling of the wrath of God with a taste as it were of the feeling of the infernall paines for sin having relation to the minde 3. Hell signifieth the place of the damned spirits having relation to soul and body Concerning the locall place of the damned it is farre from heaven a place where is nothing but horrour and misery but whether it be on the earth in the earth in the ayre or any other place it is not revealed therefore I shall answer with Socrates who being demanded of a certain person what was done in hell deri●…ing the curiositie of the question he answered that he never went thither nor communed with any that returned from thence CHAP. XVIII Treateth of Heaven THe Scholasticall Divines do say that Heaven is taken three manner of wayes 1. It signifieth those things that be under the soul 2. Those things that be in the soul 3. Those things that be above the soul 1. Those things that be under the soul are such things as the corporall eyes behold beyond or above the faculty of nature that is to be alienated from the corporall sences As 〈◊〉 was when he saw theDan ▪ 5 ▪ ●…and writing upon the wall This is the first Heaven 2. Those things that be in the soul are such things as cause the soul to be list up and taken by imagination or spirit to know or see any thing supernaturally As Peter was wrapt and taken when he saw the sheet sent sent down from heaven This is to