this generation is made fit for it Act. 2.17 18. By which men shall prophesie I speak not this to glory in but to glorifie God in it and in his accomplishing his truth of which Husse had sweet experiences as his Letters testifies cited by Fox 1 I speak not this to countenance any fancies or corruptions among men try the spirits if they are of God Therefore 2 I speak it that men take heed least they scoffe at the grace of God and his gifts as those Act. 2.13 a worke which is done to the griefe of the spirit in grosse manner amongst us and that among the learned for which as a judgement it is kept from the world and men hindred from looking to God for it 3 I speak it to incourage those that have it to see if they have the spirit of Christ and then to look on this as the seale of God to that Christ hath done in thee and on thee to thy exceeding joy 4 When God shall restore the Church and this glorious mercy in its glory to men how will they then wonder at the enmity and evil that was in the world reigning among those men who professed themselves Saints and Sons of God having the spirit in them Note Because man is carnall and needs helps even in these that are comparatively but earthly things compared with other divine mysteries of God and Christ I commend these considerations 1 The unknown excellency of the spirit of a man as in Paul 1 Cor. 5.3 4. For I verily as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present Note Though absent in body yet was he present in spirit though his body being at Phillippi was one hundred of miles from them 2 His presence in spirit was such as that it was as sufficient as if he had been bodily judging the man with them Vers 4. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ when you are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Colos 2.5 For though I am absent in the flesh yet am I present in the Spirit with you a place in which Paul never was ver 1. joying and beholding your order and stedfastnesse of faith in Christ Now thus far the spirit of a man may doe even be present with men afar off from his body and joy in their good and suffer in their sufferings though it can but look on it it is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus that acts in and over all onely who is not onely a spectator or stander by in his spirituall presence among the Saints but walks among the seven golden Candlesticks and acts and knocks c. Againe 1 Cor. 14.32 The spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets First Conclusion That there is a notable place here to say with Solomon Who knoweth the spirit of a man Eccles 3.21 2 If in the spirit of man is such an unknown excellency how then is the Spirit of Christ 3 God making Christ and fitting him with such a Spirit by which he might raise the dead spirit and communicate himselfe to it and be alway present with it through the operation and assistance of the infinite God dwelling in him 1 Cor. 15. ver 45. God making this the end of making Christ Isa 11.23 4 Whiles Christ John 17.11 saith I am no more in the world that is in soule and body yet he saith ver 23. I in them and thou in me which must be in his Spirit speaking of himselfe as distinct from God in the person of the Mediator Of the naturall spirits of Men. THese are differing in themselves the bodies differ not in height beauty and strength in quality and condition of constitution as a Gyant from a Dwrafe as a strong man differs from him that is never so weak and the most beautifull and personable man differs not from the most deformed Blackmore so much as one natural mans spirit from anoâ—â—â—r Some are strong some weak some rash some patient some proud some humble some cruel some meek some well some sick some high some low In which corruptly remain the appearances of the seven Spirits of God Isa 11.2 Wisdom Might Knowledge Understanding as a capacity to receive them or the Spirit of Christ in whom all these treasures are Of whose unknown worth the Scriptures speak Eccles 3.21 Who knoweth the spirit of a man Eccles 11.5 There is not to thee the knowledge of the way of the spirit nor how the bones of him doth grow that are in the womb c. which proves it is spoke of the naturall spirit of man Note it clears that objection that may be made How doth the spirit of a man his body being in one place come to be in another And shews 1 The spirit hath a way of its own that the body hath not 2 The way of it is unknown to any even the wisest 3 Especially to those who know not that they have a spirit at all in them 4 To all such who though they know they have it in them yet it is dead and never found the use of them Note The use of the spirit is excellent Prov. 18.14 it being the spirit of naturall man that bears his infirmities as the Spirit of Christ in the beleever bears his The good man is said to have another spirit as differing from the natural mans Numb 14.24 compared with Chap. 13.30 31. shew how the spirit in a man doth change him and make him differ from others It is a great question may bee made Whether Christs humane Spirit was not in being before it was joyned to the flesh soule in the Virgins wombe 1. 1 Pet. 1.11 The Spirit of Christ is said to have been in the Prophets of old which is that part of the Lord which was oynted as distinct from the anointing of the Holy Spirit 2 Because it is said the spirit of Christ is the spirit of Prophesie 3. John 3.13 The Son of man is said as man to come down from heaven which was that part of him called his Spirit which also now whiles he is on earth is said to be in heaven as the Son of man 4 The God-head cannot be said to go a loce ad locum 5 The Scripture speaks of Christ in his being to the Saints long before his incarnation Isa 63.9 6 How Christ is Rev. 1.4 He which is and was and is to come c. ver 8. that he is Alpha and Omega 7 That he is the first fruits and the foundation of the Church 8. 1 Cor. 15.47 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How he is said to be from heaven and in what and how to be the second Man and whether he had not in spirit a being when first promised Adam 9 Before Abraham was I am saith the Lord speaking as Mediator Joh. 10.58 Vers 56. Abraham rejoyced to see my day and saw it and was glad Ver. 57. Thou art not fifty years old and hast thou
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
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
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
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
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
ver 23. The first fruits of the spirit Col. 2.11 to the end and cap. 3. to the end of the 11. where wrath uncleannesse covetousnesse lying c. are spoken of and thus the Corinthians first Epistle is against anger malice uncleannesse 4 The Scriptures speakes of the new creature which God as in the beginning begins with the Adams creation Gal. 6.15 17. Ephes 4.23 is the spirit ver 24. the soule ver 25. the body 1 Pet. 4.1 2. Rom. 8.11 Irenaeus Lib 5. Cap. ult Commoratus est Dominus sanctorum mortuorum suorum corum qui ante dormierunt in terram stipulationis descendit ad cos extrahere eos salvare eos c. and after Ascendit quid est autem nisi quia descendit in inferiora terrae hoc David in eum prophetans dixit eripuisti animam meam ex inferno inferiori c. Si ergo Dominus legem mortuorum servavit ut fieret primo-genitus à mortuis commoratus usque in tertiam diem in inferioribus terrae post deinde surgens in carne ut etiam figuras clavoruÌ„ ostenderet discipulis sit ascendit ad patrem quomodo non confundenter qui diâ—unt inferos quidem esse hunc mundum qui sit secundum nos interiorem autem hominem ipsorum derelinquentem hic corpus in supercaelestem ascendere locum cum enim dominus in medio umbrae mortis abierit ubi animae mortuorum erant post deinde corporaliter resurrexit post resurrectionem assumptus est manifestum est quia discipulorum ejus propter quos haec operatus est Dominus animae abibunt in invisibilem locum definitum eis a Deo ibi usque ad resurrectionem commorabuntur sustinentes resurrectionem Post recipientes corpora perfecte resurgentes hoc est corporaliter quemadmodum dominus resurrexit sic veniet ad conspectum Dei Nemo enim est discipulus super magistrum perfectus autem omnis erit sicut magister ejus Quomodo ergo magister noster non statim evolans abiit sed sustinens definitum a patre resurrectionis suae tempus quod per Jonam manifestum est post triduum resurgens assumpted est sic nos sustinere debemus à d definitum a Deo resurrectionis nostrae tempus praenunciatum à prophetis sic resurgentes assumi quotquot Dominus hoc dignos habuerit Thesence of the latter part is this If therefore the Lord kept the law of the dead that he might become the first begotten from the dead and abode in the lower parts of the earth untill the third day and then after arising in the flesh that also he might shew to his Disciples the figures of the keys he forascendeth to the Father so that they should not be confounded who affirm hell to be this world which to us is so but here the body forsaking the inward man it ascends into a super-celestial place that is the Spirit For when the Lord departed in the middest of the shadow of death where the soules of the dead were he after arose bodily and after his resurrection assumed as is manifest because the soules of his Disciples for whom the Lord did these things departed into an invisible place appointed them of God and there are to remain untill the resurrection expecting it after receiving their bodies they perfectly arise that is bodily as the Lord arose and so shall come into the sight of the Lord. No Disciple is above his Master but will be perfect if he be as his Master as therefore our Master forthwith did not fly forth and depart but bearing the appointed time of his resurrection from the Father which was also manifested by Jonas who arising after three daies was taken up so we also ought to beare the defined time of our resurrection set of God and foretold of the Prophets and so rising as many as the Lord account worthy to be assumed In this yee may see how the times neare Christ taught of death and the soule and the spirit I confesse I saw not this in any of the Fathers untill I had written what goeth before many things herein I cannot assent unto though most I have on the Scriptures cited before applyed the Lord give thee judgement and understanding herein that thou mayst know the truth and worship God therein Tertull. saith thus of the soule in lib. resurrect Quasi nos seorsum ab anima simus cum totum quod sumus anima sit Denique sive anima nihil sumus ne hominis quidem sed cadaveris nomen si ergo ignoramus animam ipsa se ignorat and yet wee know not the soule nor nothing lesse then it In his book on the first Epistle to the Thessalonians against Marcion Apostolus optans ut spiritus noster corpus anima sine querela in adventu Domini conserventur nam animam posuit corpus tam duas res quam diversas licet enim animae corpus sit aliquod suae qualitatis sicut spiritus In which I suppose he strangely erres and knew little of that which he thought every man that knew any thing knew very well the nature of the spirit being far differing from the soule as the soule from the body De Resurrectione habet enim de suo solummodo cogitare velle cupere disponere ad perficiendum operam carnis expectat sic ad patiendum societatem carnis expostulat c. Ireneus Lib 5. Cap. 1. Suo igitur sanguine redimente nos Domine dante animam suam pro anima nostra carnem suam pro nostris carnibus effundente spiritum patris in admissionem communionem Dei hominum c. Ibid. Ut ab initio plasmationis nostrae in Adam eaquae fuit â Deo inspiratio vitae unita plasmati animavit hominem Animal rationabile ostendit sic in fine verbum patris spiritus Dei adunit us antiquae substantiae plasmationis Adae viventem perfectum efficit hominem capientem mortui sumus sic in spirituali omnes vivificemur Ibid. Si mortale non vivificat corruptibile non revocat ad incorruptelam jam non potens est Deus Idem Perfecius autem homo commixio adunitio est animae assumentis spiritum patris admixtae in carne quae est plasma secundum imaginem Dei Ibid. Cum autem spiritus hic commixtus animae unitur plasmati propter effusionem spiritus spiritualis perfectus homo factus est hic est qui secundum imaginem similitudinem Dei factus est si autem defuerit animae spiritus animalis est vere qui est talis carnalis derelictus imperfectus est imaginem quidem habens in plasmate similitudinem vero non assumens per spiritum Idem Sunt ex quibus perfectus homo constat carne anima spiritu Ibidem Quid est aut quid ut granum tritici seminatur
putrit in terra nisi corpora quae in terrâ—ponuntur in qua semina jactantur propter hoc dixit seminatur in ignobilitate surgit in gloria Idem Quemadmodum enim corruptelae est capax caro sic incorruptelae quemadmodum mortis sic vitae Concerning the two Opinions of the soule 1 Whether the soule dyeth and lyeth with the body in the grave 2 Whether it sleep in the body as the life in the seed sown There is no destruction of the faith whether we understand one or the other 1 Because both agree that it is in the grave 2 Sleep and death are as one to it sleep is imago mortis 3 Both agree that it injoys not God for the time of its being in the grave 4 That it is with the body to partake of the resurrection if it bee dead it must be quickened and that as the mortall body if asleep then it must be awakened Origen de principiis de anima Lib. 2. Haec de rationali anima discutienda magis à legentibus quamstatuta definitia protulimus Hierm Ep. to Vigilan Lib. 3. Epist God is not the God of the dead but of the living Mark 12. I am the God of Abraham which he applies to the soule but indeed is more proper to the spirit now of the soule he useth Rev. 6. Ais enim in sinu Abrabae vel in loco refrigerii vel subter aram Dei animas Apostolorum vel Martyrum consedisse nec posse suiis tumulis ubi voluerint adesse praesentes 1 Those men whose bodies were burned given to beasts and destroyed not buried their soules as wanting the grave and place of rest for souls are said to be under the Altar 2 No other souls have that benefit but rest with their bodies 3 The reason Because they are not in the grave and with their body or in Heaven where they would be 4 Have they no better place for the spirit which the Scripture saith is with God Clemens Ep. on James alludes to this but is strangely corrupted so as not fit to be cited he tels that as a reward of God Enoch that was found just remained longer in the body others translated to Paradice others not so just their bodies are dissolved but souls in pleasant places that in the resurrection of the dead their bodies should receive and injoy the eternall inheritance And here because of what my adversaries may clandestinely abuse me and the truth calling it Socinianism Arminianism or the like Note I declare against their doctrine 1 That what now men against the Scriptures among us falsly attribute to the soule that I hold is in Scripture given to the spirit who suffers at its departure out of the body by the death of the soule weal with God or woe with Satan and sinners 2 The souls of good and bad whiles dead or a sleep remain so until the resurrection of the body at the last day 3 That good and bad then shall in soule body and spirit be raised united and judged by Jesus Christ and suffer in all evill of pain and losse if reprobates and injoy blessednesse and joy if they belong to Gods election 4 It shall be the same body soule and spirit and not others against the Doctrine of the Remonstants and Socinians which I could sufficiently prove but that it is not my purpose at this time to speak any more hereunto then to prevent offences and scandals that may arise either through the disaffection or mis understanding of men To understand what the Spirit of Christ is to us by the help of the divine Essence of the God-head assisting the same thereunto is of speciall concernment 1 CHrist speaking of his humane spirit saith Job 6.63 It is the Spirit quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing here by Spirit is meant that more excellent part of the humane nature in Scripture opposed to flesh 2 1 Cor. 15.45 The first man Adam by sin came to be a living soule the last Adam a live-making spirit Christ being made and fitted of God on purpose to quicken the spirits of men dead in them by Adams sin in which the great mystery of the Gospel is hid Joh. 5.21 As the Father raiseth and maketh alive the dead which was Christ Act. 3.15 and 4.10 and 5.30 and 13.30 whom God made a quickening Spirit and raised his dead soule and body from their several deaths So the Son maketh alive whom he will which is the spirituall work of Christs spirit on the spirits of the Elect with which compare 1 Cor. 15.21 As by man came death also by man came the resurrection of the dead Ver. 22. As in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all be made alive to whom as Mediator before the giving up of the Kingdom death shall be done away and put under his feet in which is the utter overthrow of death c. But to return John 5.26 As the Father hath life in himselfe in the raising of Christ so he gave the Son to have life in himselfe Ver. 24. That whosoever beleeveth in him that sent him and heareth his word might have eternal life and not come into judgement but hath passed from death unto life which of necessity must be meant of the spirits death and quickening 1 Note This quickening of the spirit and passing from death to life is called the first resurrection Revel 20.5 It being the sole work of Christ in the time of grace to quicken the spirits of the Elect and to make them partakers of this first resurrection which precedes that of the soul and body so that the resurrection which men have by the soule and body of Christ at the last day is no profit to that man who is not first raised or quickened by the spirit to the first resurrection 2 This is opened 2 Cor. 4.14 Knowing he who raised the Lord Jesus also doth raise us by Jesus and shall present us with you Rom. 8.9 Yee are not in the flesh but in the spirit if the spirit of God dwell in you but if any have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his 1 You have the Spirit of God said to dwel in men 2 The having of the Spirit of Christ 3 Without the one man cannot please God without the other he is not Christs Ver. 14. Those are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God Gal. 4.6 Into whose hearts because they are Sons God by his Spirit sends forth the Spirit of his Son teaching them to cry abba Pather The Spirit of God is usually called the Spirit of promise the Spirit the holy which we read the Holy Spirit the Spirit of God given as a seale of the grace of God in Christ to man and the worke done on them Rom. 8.26 The spirit also helpeth our infirmities for wee know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh intercession for us with groans that cannot
be uttered Ver. 27. He that searcheth the heart knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit because he makes intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Note Where by the Spirit and Spirit it selfe the Spirit of Christ sent forth of God into the hearts of Saints be not intended is commended to your judgements to consider of or where the Spirit the Holy 1 Because here is no especial epithite to it as usually given to God the Spirit 2 It is the spirit of intercession which is the Spirit of Christ stirring up in us sighs and groans as in him 3 Bearing our infirmities which is done by Christ as man Heb. 4.15 and c. 5 2. Act. 9 4. 4 God the searcher of the heart is put as distinct from the Spirit of Christ in the heart who is said to intercede according to the Will of God 5 This Spirit is not ours as it is not Gods for saith he Wee know not what we should pray for as we ought whereby we is meant the whole regenerate man who without Christs Spirit assist him in prayer knows not how to pray nor for what to pray as he ought Appli If this be truth the Doctrine taught makes Christ void and in him God is put off from us because none can come to the Father but by him Illust. To set before your eyes the spirits resurrection see it fulfilled in Cyrus a heathen lying under a dead spirit when quickened works wonderfull things Hag. 1.15 2 Chron. 36.22 he is not that man he was before The excellency of Christs Spirits operation in the Elect is wonderful and precious 1 The Spirit of life in Jesus Christ gave the new Law or Covenant as Moses the Mediator of the Old gave that by which we are freed from Moses Law called the Law of sin and death Rom. 8.2 2 It is called the Law of the spirit of life 1 None being under this Law untill quickened by the Spirit of life but were under the law of death 2 It is the law of the spirit of life in which those made alive must walk in and live under it as its Law as Moses Disciples under its 3 This Law was for the spirit to walke with God in when men are said to walk in the spirit and live in the spirit when men are onely said to please God 4 That this is meant of ours and Christs Spirit because opposed to the flesh which cannot walke in this Law Rom. 8.8 Note It is one means by which the Spirit of Christ is distinguished from God the Spirit is that which commeth by hearing Gal. 3.2 5. which differs far from that Act. 10.44 called the Holy Ghost said to fall on them having the gift of tongues The Spirit of God after is given for confirmation of such as doe beleeve Eph. 4.30 and manifested it selfe in dreams visions tongues discerning of spirits prophesie The Spirit of Christ worketh faith love desires Gal. 5.22 which Origen would have to be meant of the regenerate man 's own Spirit which indeed is a fruit of the Spirit of Christ in us for of our selves we are not able to think a good thought It is Christ that worketh all in all Illust Act. 8.12 People of Samaria Beleeved Phillip which was the act of the spirit of Christ in them who yet ver 16. are said none of them to have received the Holy Ghost though by the first the Spirit of Christ they were baptized and so said to be Christs ver 16. after which ver 17. they were established having the Holy Spirit powred out upon them by the laying on of hands by the Apostle the one is mediately by hearing given men the other since the Apostles daies immediately of God 1 To this being of Christ in his Spirit in the Saints the Apostle eminently alludes saying Christ in you is the hope of glory as Col. 1.27 now if he have the Spirit of God in him God is in him if of Christ Christ is in him 2 By the Spirit of Christ before he hath the Spirit of God in him he hath the hope of glory but not the seale of glory which distinguisheth the spirits in their distinct operations 3 Thus the Apostle 2 Cor. 13.3 Since yee seeke a proofe of Christ speaking in me which to you ward is not weak but is mighty in you Ver. 5. Know you not Jesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates Rom. 8.9 10. If any have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his And if Christ be in you that is by his Spirit as before the body is dead because of sinne but the spirit that is mans spirit is life being quickened because of righteousnesse Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me the life that I now live is by faith in the Son of God which comes by hearing and is an effect of the Spirit of Christ sent out of God the Spirit as well as Father unto the heart of sons Ephes 3.17 Christ lives in the heart by faith 4 The use of this spirit is hinted at Phil. 1.19 This shall turn to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Act. 16.7 Some translations read The Spirit of Jesus suffered them not 5. Joh. 3.5 Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Here by Spirit I understand the Spirit of Christ by which he is one Spirit with the Lord and grafted unto him by baptisme Reas 1. It is not said the Holy Spirit but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Spirit only as before 2. Ver. 12. In this saying Christ tels them he told them of earthly things it being to be done by the quickening Spirit of Christs humanity assisted thereunto by his divine power 3 Hence it is the Scripture saith he that is in Christ is a new creature 4. Vers 6. That is born of the Spirit signifies that regeneration is by Christs Spirit onely not of our Spirits The Spirit of Christ working Faith and Obedience to Christ in Baptisme in which is regeneration Application 1. Men are taught that there is no other Spirit but God the Spirit who worketh these and all that have any of these have the gift of the Spirit of God 2 The Spirit of Christ which worketh these is not known men oppose against it and deny it to be who yet would be Christians 3 Hence as Christ said to his Disciples so the men of this age know not what spirits they are of that have the Spirit of Christ in them and not the Spirit of God 4 Few men have the Spirit of God and they that have it have it in a hidden way which is by dreams and visions being all that as I know of as yet accompanies the gift of the Spirit of God in these daies to which I might say something or may do when
seen Abraham that this is only fulfilled in the Divine nature of Christ is the question 10 The Rabbies understand that alway the word Adonai is distinct in the Old Testament from Jehova in the persons signified by them God and Christ unlesse some other divine Epithite be added 11. That it was the Lord Christ appeared in the form of man before he had flesh 12 He is said to be the same yesterday and to day and for ever he was man yesterday by having mans spirit before he took flesh and when he had flesh and since viz. that is the Lord was Mediator for poor man before and since Heb. 13.8 he was in flesh among us 13 He is said to be the beginning of the creation of God Revel 3.14 14 Nor is it any where said God inspired into him his Spirit but the Spirit overshadowed the Virgin Luk. 1.35 Object 2 Cor. 11.4 For if he that commeth preacheth another Jesus whom we have not preached or if yee receive another spirit which we have not received or another Gospel which yee have not accepted yee might well bear with him so that it seems the spirit Christians have is but one Resp 1. He speaks of the preaching Jesus 2 The receiving the Spirit by that preaching 3 That that was preached of Jesus was the Gospel Note Which shews that the Spirit here was that came by preaching and by that means was ordinarily received which was the Spirit of Christ not that called the Holy Spirit of God which is also one Spirit proper to the person of Christ for excellency power life and perfection 3 That the Spirit of God and Christ in Scripture are variously distinguished I have proved before 4 Christ was not man without the one nor God without the other 5 The work of the God-head in Christ was to make effectuall the work of the Spirit to man that was humane in him Hence is he said to offer up himself on the eternal spirit to God distinguishing God the Spirit in him from that spirit of man in himselfe Heb. 9.8 6 To adde one place more for distinction Act. 5.3 Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost Ver. 10. How is it that yee have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord. Annanias bringing not the full price after he had promised it to God and saying it was the whole to the Church brake his vow to God and lyed to the Holy Spirit he being by the Spirit moved hereto to a spiritual end Saphira being privy to the deceit onely but did not come with it before the Church with her Husband the evill of the fact was mainly in her Husband again had she not been demanded she would it is like have been silent in it the Text onely saith she was privy to it not consenting 1 Note hence the Word saith the being privy and the concealment of the fact was a tempting of the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Note The lying to the Holy Spirit was a more dreadful evill of a higher nature more immediately against God then this of tempting the Spirit of the Lord In the lesser evill was one in the greater the other in the private the one in the publick sin the other 3 Note Satan filled Annanias heart but after that Annanias tempted Saphira who agree together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord Mark 2.8 4 Note Here is the ground of the fearfulnesse of the judgement because it was committed against the Spirit of God and Christ and their operations in them Object John 1.13 1 Joh. 3.9 and 4.7 and 5.1.4.18 Men are said to be born of God therefore the Spirit Joh. 3.5 must be by the Spirit of God which is the Spirit of Christ and cannot be understood that the humane spirit of Christ hath any hand herein Resp These are excellently distinguished and cleared Tit. 3.5 by the washing of regeneration Mark there is water and the Spirit of Christ for without the Spirit can be no regeneration 2 He comes and after tells us of renewing of the Holy Spirit when the Spirit of God renews in man in a more divine way this their regeneration in them Ephes 4.23 beleevers are to be renewed in the Spirit of their mind 3 In the work of the Spirit of Christ they are said to be Christs 1 Cor. 6.17 Rom. 8.9 and having the Spirit of God Gods Rom. 4 18. Ephes 1.13 4 These are more clearly spoke of and joyned together Joh. 17.10 all mine that have the worke of my Spirit quickening them are thine thy Spirit renewing that Spirit of the mind within them 5 That of Joh. 3.3 of being born from above is one thing that of vers 5. is another of being born of water and the Spirit 1 By the one men see the Kingdom of God vers 3. 2 By the other men enter the Kingdom vers 5. 3. Vers 12. distinguish them that are Vers 5. said to be earthly things because done on earth by the Spirit of the Lord in the use of means and not comparable for it is divine Nature and glory with the other 4 The other is from above that is God and Heaven and called in comparison hereof heavenly things Object 1 Cor. 12.3 No man speaking in the Spirit of God saith Jesus is accursed nor is any able to call Jesus Lord but in the Holy Spirit therefore it is the Holy Spirit men are born of Resp 1. Here is spoken of the first part of Gods Spirit on man which is to discover the things of the Kingdome that so they be brought to beleeve them without which they call not Christ Lord and having this they cannot dispise the Lord. 2 By which beleeving the Spirit of Christ is introduced 3 After all which the beleevers being baptized the Spirit was given to renew that Spirit of the mind that was in them by which the things of God came to be apprehended more divinely and clearly thus the Disciples after their knowing Christ Joh. 14.26 by the Spirit knew him more divinely The Spirit of Christ perfects in men the image of the Lord in the conformity of his conversation to the Gospel be ye followers of me as I am of Christ and learn of me saith the Lord Jesus I am humble and meek which is called a putting on of Christ The Spirit of Christ quickens the spirit when the Spirit of God renewes in man the image of God lost and again indues him with his likenesse by which he is a new creature to his God Hence Coloss 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appear c. Vers 3. Our life is hid with Christ before he says they were dead that is with Christ and now are alive with Christ and their life was hid with Christs life which lived in them and quickened them which the Apostle Paul clears by his manner of speaking Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live that is spiritually which as if he had said amisse he
4. It was the Spirit Christ breathed out and no more and the Spirit he was so careful of to commit to the hands of God and nothing else Mat. 27.50 Mark 15.37 Luke 23.46 all which Scriptures shew that nothing went forth of Christ at his death but his Spirit and as not out of him so not out of us Psal 76.13 78.39 104.29 Judg. 15.19 And thus Stephen Acts 7.59 Lord Jesus receive my spirit had his Soul then left his body he would have been as careful of the one as the other See 2 Cor. 5.6 the spirit is with the Lord the body dead 5. As the spirits of just men are immediate with God so unbeleevers return to God also and receive the sentence of condemnation and commitment to prison 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20. But quickned in the spirit by which he Christ went and preached to the spirit in prison that sometime were disobedient in the days of Noah 1. The spirits not Souls not bodies are in prison yea see Gen. 6.3 2. They are the spirits of those bodies were disobedient in the days of Noah at his preaching so that what men falsly attribute to the Soul is in truth by God in Scripture only said of the spirit 6. The spirit is to be raised by the Spirit of Christ not the Soul nor body John 6.63 The flesh profiteth nothing it is the spirit quickneth So that the delusion of the times takes off men from the true and immediate use of Christ and the Scriptures 7. The spirit thus raised is that which God mainly respects in his service Joh. 4.23 Those that worship God shall worship him in spirit and in truth 1 Cor 14.15 If I sing I will sing with the spirit c. Phil. 3.3 8. The spirit seems to be of an unknown excellency by what Paul says 1 Cor. 5.3 Col. 2.5 Though absent in body yet present in spirit How the spirit may be present in the absence of the body and how the Apostle intends it is a mystery 9. The seat of the spirit is the mind which is the sublimer part of the Soul as the Soul in the blood the most excellent part of the body 1. That so it may have the more command and readier influence on the whole man 2. That being the next or nearest to its self in being in likeness Ro. 12.2 10. The converse of God is with the spirit as the spirit with the Soul the flesh and spirit are contrary the flesh in those are sanctified wars against the Soul 1 Pet. 2.11 2 Tim. 4.22 Phil. 25. 11. Whereas men are the fathers of the flesh and soul God is the Father of spirits Heb. 12.9 Eccles 12.7 12. Every man hath a particular spirit Christ as man calls his my spirit Stephen his my spirit Mary hers her spirit both male and female Gen. 45.27 Jacob his spirit 2 Cor. 3.17 2.13 13. In this part of man it is the Apostle alludes unto when he saith that in Adam all dye 1 Cor. 15.22 The actual sins we after commit are not of Adam though death of soul and body are annexed to it Rom. Death raigned over those had not sinned after Adams transgression Vide Acts 5.5 10. 1 Chron. 5.26 Dan. 5.20 14. That every man even wicked men have each a distinct spirit Deut. 2.30 see how the King of the Amorites is said to have his spirit hardened and heart obstinate If any shall be so blind as to deny this truth see Job 32.7 8. I said days should speak and multitude of years should speak wisdom But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding 1 Cor. 6.17 1. It is not in days or years or other acquired habits that inables men to speak profitably effectually feelingly but the spirit in man makes a man more wise then his Teachers 2. The Almighty when the spirit is quickened gives it understanding which the Soul should never have or can have from God for the Soulman understandeth not the things of God nor can he but the spirit is taught of God the things eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to consider Acts 6.9 10. 3. Hence the regenerate man is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 2.15 of which Origen on Rom. 1.4 Puto quod consuetudine sua Apostolus utatur etiam in hoc loco sciens mediam semper esse animam inter spiritum carnem aut jungere se carni effici unum cum carne aut sociare se spiritui esse unum cum spiritu ex qu◠si quidem cum carne sit carnales homines fiant si vero cum spiritu spiritales idcirco extrinsecus eam non nominat sed carnem tantum vel spiritum scit enim alteri horum necessario animam cohoerere sicut in his ad quos dicit vos autem in carne non estis sed in spiritu Per Archon Lib. 2. de anima Orig. 32 Homil. John understands what is written of the flesh and spirit in Gal. 5. from vers 17 23. is meant of our flesh and our spirit and not of the Spirit of God 4. Solomon gives the most clear description of the spirit Prov. 20.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The candle or light of the Lord is the spirit of man or the inspiration of man he alludes to what was done in the Creation 1. Signifying when man fell this candle was put out 2. When men are regenerated the Lord lights it Mat. 5.15 3. The Conscience is the remain of that light in man of which Job saith Job 18.6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle that is his Conscience within him shall be extinguisht Job 21.17 sinning against the light of Conscience they put out the candle light Job 29.3 When his candle the spirit shined on me my head by his light I shall pass the darkness 1 Thes 5.19 Quench not the Spirit 5. This breathing of God into the face of man is a metaphorical expression used of God for condescention to man and commends to us some immediate way God had to communicate himself to man more then to the other of the terrestrial Creatures by which he was said to be after the image and likeness of God Object Ephes 2.18 There is one Spirit so that men have not each a particular spirit in them and Ephes 4.4 1 Resp. This is not spoke of the spirit of man but God 2 Nor as man a Creature but a Christian all Beleevers had this Spirit but no Unbeleevers 3. This is not the spirit of man but that Spirit is the Spirit to the spirit of man and gives it life again as at first 4. Of this it is said If any have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Object Eccles 3.19 Man and beasts are said to have one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is one spirit 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here is taken for wind
or breath not spirit he in the same place speaks of the death of them both in which they are one though not in the Resurrection 2. Vers 21. he comes again with the same word and then distinguisheth the beasts spirit from mans the one goeth up to higher beatitude and enjoyments the other descendeth to its first matter and being at its end 3. The now ignorance of the Soul and spirit among men sufficiently shews what a vail of darkness is on the faces of the wise and prudent of the times who cry down New Lights because in love with the old darkness The Philosophers saying is useful Nosce tei psum Acts 17.28 We are his off-spring The Poet in this alludes to Gods breathing into man the breath of life in which he came to spring off or from God he having in him a likeness of God through the immortality of spirit and its spirituality of nature with the other endowments of his Soul The Soul and Spirit are so distinct 1. That now the Soul feels not the death of the spirit 2. Nor when the Soul and body dye doth the spirit feel any thing therein of pain but the Soul only Object God at once breathed in Soul and spirit therefore they are one 1. They are not one as in their names 2. There are said to be lives begun in man at that one breathing which must distinguish them in the effence being of them and one must hereby be better or greater more like God and have more of God then another Ephes 4.23 Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind 1 In this yee have the seat of the spirit which is the supream part of the Soul Job 20.3 Datur homini ut maneat quasi caput ejus sit Ambrose 1 Thes 5.23 2 Its effects or acts there are to spiritualize the mind Romans 8.6 3 The survay of man is of the spirit 1 Cor. 2.11 which now only doth remain in that obliterated fragment of the Conscience in man 4 The spirit under the Gospel-state in time of grace is to be renewed this is the now work of God and Christ Titus 3.5 in which he is born again 5 The mind without the spirit to God is as the body without the soule to man 1 Pet. 1.22 the Spirit by the Word comes to purifie the soule 6 The carriage of man is from his spirit as high spirited meek hasty Elias spirit Luk. 9.55 Yee know not of what spirit ye are of O but we know not we have any Jude 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soule men not having a spirit 1 The spirit being dead as Gen. 42.13 they are said not to be 2 They wanting the light of the spirit did corruptly corrupt the truth and way of God and did their owne wills instead of Gods setting up Churches administring the Ordinances of God according to their sence not the Spirit of God Object If any say these distinctions are made by me onely I commend to him Heb. 4.12 The Word of God is quicke c. divides a sunder the Soule and the Spirit 1 Yee see here is a Soul and Spirit 2 The Word of God divides a sunder these and not confounds them 3 The Word shews what the Spirit is and what the Soule is and what Christ hath done for either and will do in them and shall be done to them 4 No man hath the use knowledge or the understanding of the word of God until he seeth how these are divided and thereby divide the word aright to them 5 Those that speak against the dividing of them seek to take away the edge of the Word the life and power of it and so to make it uselesse to men 1 Cor. 15.44 It is sown that is by birth a soule body it is raised in the first resurrection a spirituall body there is a soule body the naturall man and a spiritual the regenerate Ver 46. But the spirituall body is not first but the soule body the naturall man and after the spiritual body that is after regeneration Ver. 47. clears this truth The first man Adam was of the earth the second from heaven vide ver 48 49. Vide 1 Cor. 2.15 The spirituall man judgeth all things the naturall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soule man understandeth not the things of God The divine nature of mans spirit appeares to be far above the soule in that it hath not respect to creature delights as the soule hath Eccles 2.11 Salomon of all found nothing but vanity and vexation of spirit so that the spirit is vexed with the delusions and deceipts it seduces and wars against the poor soule with 1 Pet. 2 11. Gal. 5.17 The flesh lusteth against the spirit 1 The flesh lusteth for temporal food and neglects spirituall the spirit lusteth for spirituall and neglects temporal to keep under his body 2 The flesh and spirit are contrary but not flesh and soule in the naturall nor soule and spirit in the regenerate man Eccles 8.8 No man hath power over the Spirit to retaine the Spirit nor hath he power in the day of death The words are thus to be read no Adam flesh hath power over the spirit for the restraining of it nor hath it power in the day of death 1 The Spirit is not under mans but Gods authority 2 Nor hath man in the day of death any thing to doe with the spirit no not to Judgement who art thou that judgest another 3 So that what ignorantly is applied to the foule that the Scriptures in the name of God applies to the spirit 4 This was excellently fulfilled in Paul vide Gal. 1.16 of the soule it is said otherwise Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 4.6 For this cause was the Gospel preached to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit 1 The Gospell that is the Grace of Christ is only to be preached to those who are dead that is spiritually dead to the world and themselves 2 Speaking graciously to them and of them in compassion to their infirmities as it is said of God he remembred that they were but flesh so God in the Gospel speaks to man as in flesh in weaknes and infirmities of body 3 Yet that they should live according to God in the spirit 4 The Gospell is to be preached to none but these 5 Nor to no other end but as before The death of the spirit in Man 1 Is in this excellently manifested that man knows it not Eccles 3.21 who doth know the spirit of man 2 That he is so insensible of it that he knows not that he hath a spirit in him but takes soule for spirit and spirit for soule nor can hee distinguish any operation of the spirit distinct from the soule 3 If he doe it is to place it in some inferior region in the body below the soule as the animall vitall naturall how far these are below the spirit and
how far contrary to that God in his philosophy speaks every man may judge 4 Nor doth man misse the lack of its use and knowledge so that his spirit indeed is not to him being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only Theoph. on 1 Thes 5.23 By the spirit of man understandeth the Spirit of God in man Saith he Spiritus id est donum quod per baptismum jam accepistis Augustine on the words Quid hic spiritum vocat donum spiritus Ambrose saith thus Ut integer sit spiritus datus nobis and after ad hoc enim datur homini ut maneat sit quasi caput ejus In this whether he speaks of it as of the Spirit of God or man judge yee But I take it as of man if not see into what a darknesse the world was fallen in in four hundred years time after Christ when men had lost the light of the word that discovered to them the being of the Spirit in them and with it the right use of Christ in the time of grace and what his work was and whereon to be 1 That the Spirit here is clear a part of us a part of the lot of mankind 2 That this spirit is to be sanctified as well as the body or soule and needs sanctification by the Spirit of God 3. Eccles 3.21 and in many other places Stephen said my spirit not thy Spirit Lord receive and so Mary who knoweth now indeed the spirit of man when men know not that they have a spirit of their own within them Ezek. 13.3 No wonder Austin and others run to philosophy having lost the knowledge of the Spirit which was immortal to prove the soule immortall against the Scripture upon which philosophicall hinges the Divinity of the now times are hanged in which untruths error and deceipts are told the people to the overthrow of hope and shaking of faith in men and destruction of the Truth and in this follow not the Lords Spirit but their own Ezek. 13.3 Psal 103.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the wind passeth over it and it is gone which is a grosse corrupting of the word by the mistranslating of it In Ver. 15 The Prophet speaks of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sorrowfull man saying for the Spirit was in him is departed and he is not to us his place shall know it no more which is said of the falne flower or soule of man see the part of the soule in 1 Pet. 1.24 Object The Spirit God breathed into man is God Resp Amos 4.13 God is said to create the spirit as other things and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here is spirit not wind he after in the next words mentions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the body and soule Heb. 4.12 Dividing between the spirit and soule and marrow and bones and joynts and sinews 1 The word divides between soul and spirit which proves they are not by Gods word one and the same as men after themselves teach and affirm 2. Whereas other object that it is but a dividing of the same thing expressed by severall tearms as a dividing marrow joynts bones which are all of the body Resp 1. It is granted the soule and body are of different natures 2 The body indeed being a gross corporeal substance may be divided betwixt its several parts but the soul being of a spiritual nature is individual 3 The spirit being more spiritually sublime is more unpossible to be divided then the soule 4 Nor is the spirit a part of the soule no more then the soule is a part of the body but far more exceeds the soule then the soule the body Exod. 21.23 If there be death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word signifies murder thou shalt give soule for soule we corruptly read life for life Jerem. 38.15 As the Lord liveth made us this soule but the spirit Eccles 12.7 is said to be given of God so that the being of one in man is in a different way of being from the other 5 It seems to me all the soules of men are but one soule divided Deut. 24.7 and Act. 17.26 which is the ground of love all being as one man and so thy own flesh Isa 58.7 Jer. 38.15 The first general of the soule That every naturall man before regeneration is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a souleman 1 Cor. 14. 1 Because his spirit being dead in him his soule is the most excellent part in being in him 2 He is guided by the darke light of his soule to act all and only according threunto 3 He knows nothing higher then that of his soule is dictated to him yea nor can he receive before his spirit be quickened anything of a higher nature 1 Cor. 2.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.1 Let every soule be subject to the higher powers In the Syr. and Arab. it is nephes and Sultanan as the Heb. Note God speaking of the spirit Eccles 8.8 Says no man hath power Schallit over the spirit which the Greek 70 renders by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which shews the highest power was of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 1 The soule and spirit are two 2 They strangely differ one is subject the other not to power 3 That that is subject to power power can reach by the sword but the other that they cannot Of the second part of man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The excellency whereof is noted Matth. 16.22 Mark 8.37 1 In its creation or originall being it was spired into man of God immediately which proves sufficiently it far exceeds the beasts soule which with the bodies had their being together from the earth Gen. 2.7 Gen. 1. 2 The ordinary way of continuance of the same 1 It is not said as of the Spirit that God gives it 2 But of the contrary are said to come out of the loyns of the parents Gen. 46.26 Exod 1.5 vide Ezek. 16.5 Heb. 7.10 3. It is not said to return to God but goe to the grave Act. 2.27 31. Job 33.18 20 22 28 30. Isa 38.17 Psal 49.15 and 94.17 4 That with the body it is to partake of the resurrection Act. 2.31 seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ that his soule was not left in hell nor his flesh did not see corruption 1 Here are two parts the flesh and soule 2 These were in the grave 3 These had both interest in the resurrection of Christ 4 What was done in Christ is to be done in Saints because done for them Now of the soule of Christ 1. It is said he poured out his soule to death Isa 53.12 2 He is said to give his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soule for his sheep John 10.11 ver 15. he layeth it down ver 17. he saith the father loved him because he laid downe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his soule O did God love his Son for this and shall this so great a cause of love be hid from us
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
as well as spirits to God Resp 1. The soule is committed to God in well doing not in dying as the spirit is said to be before not in death 2 The soule is kept from the evil of sin the spirit from the evill of punishment the one before death the other after death Phil. 4.7 1 Pet. 1.5 Object 2. James 5.20 Shall save a soule from death Which proves a beleevers soul dieth not or is not subject to death 1 The naturall mans spirit is already dead 2 The salvation here is not temporall but eternall not now but hereafter 3 That is he saves the soule from hell the second death from which Christ saves soule and body of beleevers 4 That this is the mind of God is clear for God saves not the elects soule from the temporall death or sleep of the soule 5 Nor is it desired of or beneficiall to them for death is theirs and death is to mee gaine saith St. Paul so that this doctrine of the soules sleep is not condemned if understood according to the mind of the Gospell Object 3. James 2.26 As the body without the spirit is dead 1 This shews the dependance of the body for its naturall life is on the spirit as well as soule when Christ gave up the spirit he dyed 2 This is true if yee understand breath here by spirit 3 And that the soules dependance is on the spirit also for life in the reall absence whereof it dieth Object 4. Act. 20.10 Trouble not your selves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his soule is in him whence it appears the bodies dependance is on the soule only Resp 1. He speaks of the soule because he felt the soule and while that was felt in him his spirit was in him 2 The soul is more discernable and materiall then the spirit 3 As soon as the spirit leaves a man the soule is no longer discernable to be in a man Object 5. Rev. 21.8 The lake burns with fire and brimstone is the second death Now you say the spirit is dead you say the soule after dyeth then that of hell is the third death Resp The death of the spirit and the after death of soule and body is but one death on the whole man 2 The second death is not of a part but the whole man the one before the other after the day of Judgement 3 As the widow woman 1 Tim. 5.6 so all men naturall are dead in spirit while they live in body and soule being partly dead and partly alive untill death hath put an end to body and soule foregoing the resurrection Job 33.30 He hath delivered my soule from death that my life may praise him in the light 1 Soule and life are distinct 2 The deliverance of his soule was when God chap. 2. said to Satan he should not meddle with his soule and all the rest was given into his hand what ever he had 3 Satans desire was to have his soule Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his soule 4 See what a corrupting of the word it is to read here life for soul as one word and in it one thing for another 5 Whiles he was denied his soule he was denyed his life because his soule was delivered from death in the continuance of his life Quest How Job knew God had given all except this and that Satan asked his soule Resp Doubtlesse by inspiration all Scripture is given thereby 2 He wrote doubtlessely his own life and then he did it as moved of God to doe it 1 Note if by soule were meant the immortal part of man Satan durst never have asked it 2 To these distinctions of spirit soul body life breath c. laid down in the word how have the eyes and hearts of the wise and learned of the world been shut up concerning which as Paul 1 Cor. 1.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yea and let me say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 could not al the learning of the Academies find out this no but destroy it men sought it in Aristotle Plato c. where it was not not in the word where it is and by their corrupt principles came to measure the Truth of God not measuring them by the truth whose philosophy compared with Gods is vaine Philosophy a poor man having his spirit quickened by God and the eye of his understanding opened to understand the mind of God may out of the word teach all the Philosophers in the world and swallow up their Philosophy as the sun a small stars light Oh let the word and its principles be studied and these vain studies be laid aside I make bold to say the day time is coming it wil be so The world knows not the worth and use of Gods word that use those beggarly rudiments and dunghils the forms of all tropes metaphors syllogisms are laid down therein and to be learned thence that were a way taken to teach men thence would sanctifie the speech and understanding of youth and not corrupt it and darken it Object Eccles 3.19 That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth so dieth the other yea they have all one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breath so that Adam hath no preheminence above a beast Vâ—â— 20. All goe into one place all are of the dust and turn to dust againe It seems man and beast are equall and no difference then by this Scripture Resp 1. He here speaks of the Adam that turns to dust 2 The breath or aire the beast and man injoy for the injoyment of life in the world is the same indeed 3 And as for their death as one dieth so dieth the other Note he yet distinguisheth them in this 1 That though they dye alike the body and soule of the beast that never riseth againe as that of man doth chap. 11.9 2 He hath clearly distinguished them ver 21. in their spirits who knoweth the spirit of man that ascendeth to supernals and the spirit of a beast that descendeth because from beneath to its bed of earth as the spirit to God from whence it came 3 God hath excellently distinguished them in their first forming and in their more excellent being then the other creatures shining in reason understanding wisdome knowledge speech Polyc. Lyserus on the first of Genesis gives this distinction between the soule of man and beast Anima omnis carnis sanguis ejus est de hominis autem anima nuspiam ita loquitur Ill. The soule in the grave to the body is as the life of the seed in the earth which when the first body dieth it riseth up a new body 1 Cor. 15.42 Object 6. Since God breathed but one breath into Adam he had but one life Gen. 2.7 Resp 1 Our translation saies so but corruptly the Scripture in the Hebrew hath it in the plurall lives of different nature 2 This appears because there are severall deaths spoke of in the
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
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
because it is the Spirit must teach the flesh to profit by Christ or he gains nothing by it Vid. Aug. Lib. Quaest Cap. 67. Anselm on the words Gregor Mor. lib. 4. cap. 30. lib. 8. cap. 4. Rom. 8.19 The expectation of the creature that is mans body as in Phi. 1.20 from without waiteth for the revelation of the Sons of God 1 John 3 2. It being not untill then glorified but corrupt Ver. 20. The creature man is subjected to vanity it not having ought but through him that hath subjected it in hope Ver. 21. For the creature it selfe by which is strictly taken the body being made after the form of the other creatures in the creation from which the spirit and soule differed shall be made free from the bondage of corruption when at the last day it shal have put on incorruption into the liberty of glory God being to be seen with these eyes that now cannot see God and live of the Sons of Gad in the flesh Ver. 22. For we know that all or the whole creature man in his spirit soule and body he before having spoken of the soule distinct in the hope and the body in its vanity nowspeaks of all groan together and travel in pain together untill now That is the body labours under the wants of the soule the soule of the body the spirit is burthened with the temptations of both Rom. 7.24 until now that is none as yet being possessed of this felicity Ver. 23. And not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the body but they the spirit and soule having the beginning of the spirit his spirit quickening our spirit that it cannot see death but is partaker of the first resurrection and the soule supported by hope sleeping in Christ is free from corruption far differing in its estate from that of the body and thence after we our selves is opposed to the body altogether before spoken of We our selves in our selves groan looking out to the felicity the redemption of our bodies Here the revelation of sons is reserved to the last day when beleevers shall be separated from unbeleevers Ver. 24. For by hope we are saved in which he alludes to the looking out and expectation of the creature ver 19 20 23 and shews man is this creature as being the only adequate object of hope Ver. 25. Who onely by patience wait for the manifestation hereof upon the perswasions of the spirit assuring man hereof by the Word of God Note verse 23. Not onely the creature the creature is added in Translation signifying the body distinct from the soule and spirit or the natural man of the first creation from the spiritual of the regeneration as after Mark 16.15 Go out into all the world preach the Gospell to every creature That the soule body and spirit is the key of Scripture and this hid the mysterie of salvation is many waies hid but especially the way of teaching it appears in this truth 1 How men corrupt the sence of the Word and loose the mind of God for here they read every creature and therefore St. Francis goeth and preacheth to the fishes and why we on this command should not preach to the beasts and fowles I know not 2 Others there are that say the Gospel is to be preached to every c. and therefore remission of sins and salvation of Christ is to be applyed to all the men on earth 1 Say they Christ redeemed all 2 The Word commands the Gospel to be preached and applied to all Note the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usually translated omnis every as respecting the number of things but when it admits not number it is read all as in the same ver and Col. 1.6 for ye cannot say in every world there being but one in all N. Now so here teach the Gospel to every creature why no creature is capable of the teaching of the Gospel but man and therefore God enjoyned the teaching of none but him if he did as men read he did then we that teach do not well to neglect them N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I rather therefore translate all the creature as before all the world and then shews 1. That the whole man hath sweet mercies set out in the Gospell 2. That the Gospell is to be distributed to its severall parts by the wise workman to make him perfect 1 There is Gospel to reform the body and form it to Christ with most sweet promises of its resurrection and glory 2 The soule the Gospel hath multitude of precious balmes for its wounds and instructions how to take heed of the flesh to leave the world to enjoy Christ and what the Lord is and will bee to the soule 3 The Word divides between soule and spirit and reproves the â—â—â—thinesse of that and reformes it to the glorious image of the Sons of God The Doctors Ministery was the first of these 1 Cor. 3.1 3. for as yet they were not fitted to embrace the more spiritual knowledge of the Gospel nor were they reformed in their lowest part 2 The soule the Pastors 1 Pet. 2.25 Peter was Pastor in Jerusalems Church and he faith yee are returned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto the Pastor that was an Office as ministring and the Bishop that was he was a Ruling Officer who was to reforme the affections and mind by exhortations Rom. 8.19 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God having quickened the spirit he by rules 1 Teaches the spirit as it is able to hear and know God and bear his yoake which first is concerned in the reforming the outward man or flesh and the soule in the lower parts thereof In the ministery of the Teacher Heb. 6.1 Repentance Baptism Resurrection and Judgement concerning the flesh Rom. 12.1 2. 2 In the instructing of the soule in its more excellent part of the mind affections Act. 14.22 and 15.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 11. fleshly lusts fight against the soul 1 Pet. 2.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pastor is of the soule 1 Pet. 1.22 3 In the instructing of the Spirit which is the Evangelists work of ministry 1 Under which three the Beleever is to bee perfected in the first hee is as a Babe in the other as a Youth in the last as a strong man in Christ 2 These three have as by a line the word laid out to them 1 Cor. 15.29 baptized for the deads the spirit the soule the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if the deads are not altogether raised c. 1 Hence Paul taught the Corinthians not as spiritual but carnal as babes in Christ where there are set out spiritual and carnal the carnal babes in Christ 1 Cor. 3.1 3. 2 Cor 4.10 11 12 13. 2 Hence Christ saith I have many things to say but yee cannot bear them now 3 This beginning is set out Rom. 8.13 If ye by the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the flesh ye shall live
again corrects with a yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God Note in this to the full is opened that Joh. 5.17 My Father workes hereunto and I worke Vers 19. The Son can do nothing of himselfe but what he seeth the Father do whatever he doth those things also doth the Son Vers 21. As the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will Vers 26. As the Father hath life in himselfe so hath he given to the Sonne to have life in himselfe that was in the Spirit of his mind Hence he laid down his life and had power to take it again Note Moses had not the lesse of the Spirit by what the seventy had nor Christ by what the elect have the fountaine is ever full Illust If as in 2 Chron. 18.20 21. one spirit is a lying spirit in the mouth of all Ahabs Prophets how much more shall the Spirit of Christ be in and direct all the elect of God Object That was an Angelicall Spirit Resp The spirit of man was of an Angelical nature having no flesh nor bones yea if the Angels were created ex prima materia as most hold it may be of a more excellent nature then they being breathed of God into man by which man is called the off-spring of God 2 The Spirit of Christ as joyned to the Spirit of God and sent out of God into the hearts of his Elect by far exceeds the Angels who have their dependance on him as on their head in the power and way he hath of communicating it selfe to men 3 By this God makes the Spirit of the Man Christ with his soul and body to be a root a second Adam by which beleevers receive life in spirit from him as death from Adam without Gods assistance the Spirit of Christ cannot be in mine nor work on mine at all Objections made by Mr. 1 That soul and spirit were expressed exegeticos and that they are but one though they had two names Resp That to maintain these two to be one against the expresse word of God 1 Thes 5.23 Heb. 4.12 John 12.10 is heresie Luk. i. 46.47 and Luk. 23.46 with Act. 2.3 Obj. Offering the testimony of Luk. 1.46 47. he said That whereas it was read my soule and my spirit it may be read my soul my soule Resp To put down soule for spirit the word soule being before was to take away from the Word of God and to be liable to the curse of God yea to be accursed though an Angel Object The spirit of man is the Spirit of God Resp Was My that that was blasphemy because God the Spirit is said to be one with the created spirit of man sinfull filthy dead I confesse in hast I said that the Spirit Rom. 8.1 was the Spirit of God which is meant the spirit of man quickened by Christ Quest What the distinct difference was between the spirit and soul of man Resp Solomon Eccles 3.21 who knoweth the spirit of a man with whose death the knowledge of it dyed also 2 Yet a more apparent difference to distinguish them cannot be then this that the one the spirit hath its being imediately from God Eccles 12.7 the other the soule from man Exod. 1.5 Gen. 46.24 Heb. 7.10 3 They in the dissolution of the fabrick of Man are distinguished the spirit returning to God the soule to the grave Note So that to affirm soule and spirit to be one I declared to be false doctrine and the Teachers false Teachers that taught it Object Gen. 2.8 God breathed into man the breath of life Man therefore had but one life which was his soul life Resp The word is corruptly translated it is not life but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lives and so the spirit life is comprehended under the same word Object After it is said and man became a living soul therefore man had no other but a soule in him Resp The words are thus to be read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Adam the body was for the living soule which had but one of the lives the body being to the soule especially it being near to it partaking with it in eating drinking suffering c. which the spirit doth not but is of a more sublime and excellent nature 1 The soule comes from man with the body in its beginning 2 It goeth to the grave with the body in its ending 3 It is not said the Adam was for the souls life as before Quest Matth. 22.27 Mark 12.30 Luk. 10.27 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soule with all thy mind with all thy strength which is the body which the soule which the spirit Resp 1. The Question is propounded concerning a command of the law which command was given after mans fall by sin and the spirits death 2 The commands were given the fleshy part of man whence it is said by the Law no flesh living can be justified Ezek. 20.18 Rom. 8.3 Rom. 3.20 3 Hence for the spirit of man it could have no releife by the Law Gal. 3.21 it could not make alive that is the dead spirit as Christ was to do 1 Cor. 15.45 4. Rom. 3.19 What the Law speaks it speaks to them under the Law 1 The spirit when alive it was not under any dominion of the Law man then was a law to himselfe he needed none nor was any given untill two thousand years after mans fall 2 When it was dead it was under none for Rom. 7.1 The Law hath dominion over a man onely whiles alive not when dead therefore Christ first quickeneth the spirits before he give them that Law 3 When the spirit is quickened by Christ it is dead to the Law of the flesh and freed and in subjection onely to the Law of the Spirit of life Rom. 2.8 distinguished Rom. 3.27 4 Here are not three parts but four Heart Mind Soule Strength 1 Which shews that the Spirit Soule and Body are not aimed at as in the other Scriptures 2 That here as the command was given the Naturall man the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the naturall mans parts of Heart and Soule Strength and Mind are intended and not the Spirit that was dead in man and was not capable of obedience or command Object The Law is spiritual Rom. 7.14 Resp The Law indeed is said to be spiritual but no where said to be a Law of the Spirit 2 The spirituality of the Law 1 Is in mentioning the Name of God and forbidding Idol-worship and injoyning the love of God 2 It is spiritual in condemning coveting 3 Yet see that God had a mind to the Soule and Body in these commands 1 Consider the preface I am the Lord thy God c. in which the deliverance of the soule and body not the spirit is mentioned 2 By this Law men were judged by the Magistrate to whom the soul was subjected not the spirit Rom. 13.1 3 Hence Ezek. 18.20 the soule is said to dye by and to be under this Law I proposed this to him 1 That no Scripture saith at death the soule returneth to God or goeth immediately to Heaven before the resurrection but that it goeth to the grave 2 That no Saint ever commended his soule to God at death but his spirit which is onely said to return to God that gave it and the Adam to the dust and earth Ap. If the Scripture saith in many places the soul goeth to the grave and in no place that it immediately goeth to God before the resurrection who shall assert it and not teach false Doctrine and not teach another Gospell 2 If the Scripture saith at the death of a man only the spirit goeth to God immediately for its judgement and yet men teach that we have no spirit or make soule and spirit one and confound those God hath distinguished To which I add this most weighty Query and Objection may be made Since that the spirit comes from God whether then it be polluted or not as it comes out of Gods hand Resp Adam sinning as a general person dyed not onely in his own spirit but brought death on the spirits of his whole race for in Adam all dye whose death was in spirit 2 Hence God giving the Spirit gives it not possessed of that spiritual life as he gave it to Adam in its first being but that it comes into man now deprived of his first life and excellency 3 That it is thus given dead appears in that as a remedy Christ by God is given to man as a quickening Spirit to restore and raise the dead spirit of man againe 4 As Adam so Christ is designed by grace a generall person for good to the Elect of God as Adam was by Justice for death to all 5 It is clear the spirits now created of men that the grace of God might abound are not in the capacity Adams was before but in that it was after its fall Obj. Some will cry out this is injustice in God for God to give men a dead spirit and unbeseeming God