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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

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

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