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
the Beast and Man enjoyeth These places and many more in our Translations for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soul have life put in them against the Syriac and the Arabic which retain the Hebrew root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Translations Matth. 6.25 Luk. 12.23 Mat. 10.39 16.25 Mark 8.35 Luk. 9.24 17.33 Joh. 12.25 Luk. 9.56 14.26 Joh. 10.11.15.17 13.38 39. 15.13 Acts 15.26 20.24 27.10 22. Rom. 16.4 Joh. 1. Ephes 3.16 Revel 12.11 Note If the soul and life are two distinct things in Man then to write life where God writes soul is a presumptuous destruction of the Truth of God and the natural life in Christ is the same with that in us he being in all things like us sin onely excepted That the spirit soul and body are three distinct parts of Man I commend these Scriptures to you Note how God speaks to us of himself Gen. 6.5 My Spirit and my Soul Mat. 12.18 My Soul Mat. 10. As having a Body 1 Thess 5.23 as before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 1.46 47. Mary said there is the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My soul doth magnifie the Lord and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Job 12.10 For in his hand is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soul of every one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 living and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirit of every fleshman or all mankinde which is the Adam soma In respect the Scripture saith that every truth is confirmed und r two or three witnesses and here Paul Mary Job are produced which is the number required I shall proceed to particulars and first of the Spirit Joh. 11.33 Christs Spirit is troubled which was his humane spirit And Cap. 13.21 of his Soul Joh. 10.15 12.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Spirit is not by propagation conveyed from man to man Job 26. vers 4. Whose spirit came from thee The first thing necessary to be considered is the Being and Beginning of the Spirit Genes 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plasmavit the word respects the forming of a thing out of a gross body as a Potter of the clay his vessel so God formed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Adam of the dust of the Earth when he breathed in his face spiraculum vitarum the breath of lives not of life as the corrupt Translations read but lives in the plural viz. that of the soul of the spirit and the Adam the Earth became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I thus expound And the Earth IS to the Soul vivens living where the Soul and the life are distinguished Isai 38.19 Gen. 7.21 22. Numb 31.40 2. Whereas it is said the Lord breathed into Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is lives in the plural not life as it is corruptly translated and admirably cleared Isai 57.16 the spirit and spiration shewing 1. That God placed in man differing lives 2. That the spirit hath its life the soul it s and the body it s by this Breath 3. All were far differently from the beasts by God communicated to man in his Creation as I shall shew hereafter Job 35. Of this Life of the Spirit 1. As God of the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tohu and bohu chaos and confusion made Heaven and Earth Man and Angels Beasts and Fishes so of the same spiration or emission he made life in the soul the spirit the body 2. As he divided between the waters above the Firmament and the waters beneath so he divided the soul life from that of the spirit Man the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having in himself as the perfection of the Creation that which corresponds to all these 3. A darkness that lieth hereby on the spirits of men is removed because whereas God said Gen. 2.17 Adam should dye in the day he eat of the tree of knowledg of good and evil some expound ing the day by a thousand years others other-ways but I forbear and commend to you this That God in that day he spake to man alluded to the natural day of man not God this sentence was made good on him not by taking away his soul-life but his spirit-life which was then dead in him as appears in that his access to familiarity with and innocency before God was lost together with all farther actings of the spirit within him 4. Hence as Tim. 1.5.6 of the wanton widow she is dead whiles she liveth which shews that she was some way or where dead that is in spirit and in some thing or part alive which was in body and soul 5. That the spirit was dead appears 1 Cor. 15.44 for Christ was made a quickening spirit to Adams generation who by his fall became only a living soul the spirit being dead in him Ephes 5.14 this spoke to men alive in the flesh but dead in the spirit 6. This quickening of the spirit is the great work of Christ on man in the days of the Gospel to raise the spirit from its death which is called the first Resurrection Rev. 20.6 7. Those that confound soul and spirit do destroy the faith and put men either to expect that now is to be done hereafter or that hereafter is to be done now indeed now is to be the resurrection of the spirit by the Word and Spirit of Christ or that at last will be nothing available many Souls by this delusion have been undone 8. This death first entred into the world by Adams sin so the restoration of this life is first and is called filthiness 2 Cor. 7.1 9. This resurrection is by beleeving in Jesus Christ John 11.25 26. 10. As the soul is to the body so the spirit is to the soul the soul is in the blood as its seat and the spirit in the mind as its seat being the sublimest part of the soul informing and leading the soul and body To make a definition of the Spirit no man ever could since the fall that was meer man Solomon whose Philosophy exceeds all else that men call so Eccles 3.21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that ascendeth to supernals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that above and above of the Apostle 1. Shewing that the spirit of man was of an unknown excellency if any had known it of men Solomon had Adams death of spirit was that he lost the knowledg of God himself and sense of his Soul-misery 2. In the Restoration thereof we have some discovery made of the exercise thereof Gal. 5.22 23. among which Faith that excellent grace is said to be one which since the death of the spirit is the gift of God and a part of the spirits resurrection and life 3. The spirit is that which is immortally with God as in Eccles 12.7 The spirit returns to God that gave it and who dares say more returned either that the Soul or life doth and not be guilty of adding to the Word
or breath not spirit he in the same place speaks of the death of them both in which they are one though not in the Resurrection 2. Vers 21. he comes again with the same word and then distinguisheth the beasts spirit from mans the one goeth up to higher beatitude and enjoyments the other descendeth to its first matter and being at its end 3. The now ignorance of the Soul and spirit among men sufficiently shews what a vail of darkness is on the faces of the wise and prudent of the times who cry down New Lights because in love with the old darkness The Philosophers saying is useful Nosce tei psum Acts 17.28 We are his off-spring The Poet in this alludes to Gods breathing into man the breath of life in which he came to spring off or from God he having in him a likeness of God through the immortality of spirit and its spirituality of nature with the other endowments of his Soul The Soul and Spirit are so distinct 1. That now the Soul feels not the death of the spirit 2. Nor when the Soul and body dye doth the spirit feel any thing therein of pain but the Soul only Object God at once breathed in Soul and spirit therefore they are one 1. They are not one as in their names 2. There are said to be lives begun in man at that one breathing which must distinguish them in the effence being of them and one must hereby be better or greater more like God and have more of God then another Ephes 4.23 Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind 1 In this yee have the seat of the spirit which is the supream part of the Soul Job 20.3 Datur homini ut maneat quasi caput ejus sit Ambrose 1 Thes 5.23 2 Its effects or acts there are to spiritualize the mind Romans 8.6 3 The survay of man is of the spirit 1 Cor. 2.11 which now only doth remain in that obliterated fragment of the Conscience in man 4 The spirit under the Gospel-state in time of grace is to be renewed this is the now work of God and Christ Titus 3.5 in which he is born again 5 The mind without the spirit to God is as the body without the soule to man 1 Pet. 1.22 the Spirit by the Word comes to purifie the soule 6 The carriage of man is from his spirit as high spirited meek hasty Elias spirit Luk. 9.55 Yee know not of what spirit ye are of O but we know not we have any Jude 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soule men not having a spirit 1 The spirit being dead as Gen. 42.13 they are said not to be 2 They wanting the light of the spirit did corruptly corrupt the truth and way of God and did their owne wills instead of Gods setting up Churches administring the Ordinances of God according to their sence not the Spirit of God Object If any say these distinctions are made by me onely I commend to him Heb. 4.12 The Word of God is quicke c. divides a sunder the Soule and the Spirit 1 Yee see here is a Soul and Spirit 2 The Word of God divides a sunder these and not confounds them 3 The Word shews what the Spirit is and what the Soule is and what Christ hath done for either and will do in them and shall be done to them 4 No man hath the use knowledge or the understanding of the word of God until he seeth how these are divided and thereby divide the word aright to them 5 Those that speak against the dividing of them seek to take away the edge of the Word the life and power of it and so to make it uselesse to men 1 Cor. 15.44 It is sown that is by birth a soule body it is raised in the first resurrection a spirituall body there is a soule body the naturall man and a spiritual the regenerate Ver 46. But the spirituall body is not first but the soule body the naturall man and after the spiritual body that is after regeneration Ver. 47. clears this truth The first man Adam was of the earth the second from heaven vide ver 48 49. Vide 1 Cor. 2.15 The spirituall man judgeth all things the naturall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soule man understandeth not the things of God The divine nature of mans spirit appeares to be far above the soule in that it hath not respect to creature delights as the soule hath Eccles 2.11 Salomon of all found nothing but vanity and vexation of spirit so that the spirit is vexed with the delusions and deceipts it seduces and wars against the poor soule with 1 Pet. 2 11. Gal. 5.17 The flesh lusteth against the spirit 1 The flesh lusteth for temporal food and neglects spirituall the spirit lusteth for spirituall and neglects temporal to keep under his body 2 The flesh and spirit are contrary but not flesh and soule in the naturall nor soule and spirit in the regenerate man Eccles 8.8 No man hath power over the Spirit to retaine the Spirit nor hath he power in the day of death The words are thus to be read no Adam flesh hath power over the spirit for the restraining of it nor hath it power in the day of death 1 The Spirit is not under mans but Gods authority 2 Nor hath man in the day of death any thing to doe with the spirit no not to Judgement who art thou that judgest another 3 So that what ignorantly is applied to the foule that the Scriptures in the name of God applies to the spirit 4 This was excellently fulfilled in Paul vide Gal. 1.16 of the soule it is said otherwise Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 4.6 For this cause was the Gospel preached to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit 1 The Gospell that is the Grace of Christ is only to be preached to those who are dead that is spiritually dead to the world and themselves 2 Speaking graciously to them and of them in compassion to their infirmities as it is said of God he remembred that they were but flesh so God in the Gospel speaks to man as in flesh in weaknes and infirmities of body 3 Yet that they should live according to God in the spirit 4 The Gospell is to be preached to none but these 5 Nor to no other end but as before The death of the spirit in Man 1 Is in this excellently manifested that man knows it not Eccles 3.21 who doth know the spirit of man 2 That he is so insensible of it that he knows not that he hath a spirit in him but takes soule for spirit and spirit for soule nor can hee distinguish any operation of the spirit distinct from the soule 3 If he doe it is to place it in some inferior region in the body below the soule as the animall vitall naturall how far these are below the spirit and
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
and men sowing to the flesh Note Salomon Eccles 6.7 All the labour of the Adam is for his mouth yet his soule is not satisfied 1 In these words are the Adam body and nephes the soule 2 What the Adams labour is for it is for his mouth that is meat to give it 3 After it is in the mouth then it comes to the soule that is not satisfied with what the hands can get either it is not sweet enough or good enough or it hath not quantity enough for to keep him many years Having got one thousand why it is not enough it would have ten thousand yea all the world Prov. 27.20 The eyes of man are never satisfied the body serves an ill Master in the soule it is like Death and Hell whiles it is carnally minded What shall I eate what shall I drink what shall I have to morrow next yeare he thought he had pleased his soule well Luk. 12.18 19. Psal 66.9 He holdeth our soule in life 1 The soule and life are distinct 2 The soule of all are held in life or they would dye 3 God it is holds our soule in life and suffers not our feet that is the bodily being to be moved Psa 78.50 and 1.16.8 and 22.19 Ester 7.3 She prayed for the soule of Ahasuerus Psal 22.29 All they that goe down to the dust shall bow before him and his soule is not living or none can keep alive his own soule 1 The body goeth down to the dust 2 They are said as dying men to bowe and stoop to God Isa 10.4 vide Pagnine on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 The soul that is not alive none when the body goeth to dust can keep alive his own soule 4 This John 19.30 was fulfilled in Christ he bowed the head and gave up the spirit man bows before he dyes Gen. 49.33 and thence are stretched out after death Acts 27.10 I perceâ—ve that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage not only of the lading of the ship but also of our soules 1 The soules were subject to losse and ruine as ship and goods 2 If the soule were immortall then he would not have put the goods and soule in the same state as in ver 22. there shall be no losse of any soule that is none shall die Rom. 2.5.16 Shews in this chapter the day of Judgement is looked on and spoken of Ver. 6. When God renders to every man according to his deeds Ver. 8 9. Then on every soule that is contentious and doth disobey the truth shall be tribulation and anguish And first shews that untill then the soul of man suffers none of these 2 If it were immortall it should doe as well as the spirit 1 Pet. 3.19 which proves the spirit immortall the soul mortall The next Generall that proves the mortality of the souls is 1 That it is joyned with the flesh and called flesh 2 That when dis-joyned it is called blood which pertains to flesh and divided by the word flesh 1 The Scripture cals the Soule and Body flesh Gen. 6.3 My spirit shall not alwaies strive with man for that hee also is flesh the words may be better read thus My spirit shall not strive in man for ever because that he is flesh by which the 1 Pet. 3.19 is only to be interpreted 1 Note the spirit was dead what else was in man was of a fleshly nature yea God cals it flesh 2 Though he cals man Adam as if he meant his body yet after saying hee he comprehended soule and body as all flesh was in being in him 3 While man is flesh there is but a striving with them and as it were an outstanding by them of the spirit called a resisting of the spirit Act. 7.51 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fall against the holy spirit Matth. 26.41 The spirit is willing the flesh is weak 1 Flesh and spirit are opposed onely the soule not mentioned 2 The soule is fleshly in good men not spiritual and therefore is to be understood in flesh and not in the word spirit 3 Whereas it saith weake only it speaks of the inclinations of the soul not the flesh Rom. 7.18 In me that is in my flesh dwels not any good thing John 6.63 It is the spirit quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing 1 Here are only two parts as before 2 It signifies that where the spirit is not a quickening spirit there the flesh and soule profits not 3 That the first resurrection is of the spirit the next of soule and body and that of the soule and body without this of the spirit profits not but rather aggravates its misery and woe 2 When it speaks of the naturall man whose spirit is dead and so is said not to be Gen. 42.13 as Joseph whom his brethren thought was dead is said not to bee so the spirit in naturall man being dead hee is called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if he had no spirit 1 Cor. 2.14 and 15.44 It is distinguished by flesh for the body and soule for the blood The Reasons of it 1 Blood is the soule of Beasts or the soule is said to be in the blood 2 Blood is the seat of the soule of man it is called the blood soule Prov. 28.17 he that hath done violence to the blood soule shall flye to the pit Deut. 27.26 1 Here is violence to the blood 2 That is done to the blood is done to the soule Note In this is the dâ—stinction of the soule of man and beast 1 The beasts blood and soule were together out of the earth at once 2 Mans blood was out of the earth but his soule by which that blood came to be inanimated was from God yet the blood in man was the seat of the soule as in beasts 3 Yet in Gen. 9.5 It is spoken closely hereunto thou shalt not eate the flesh with his soule his blood Gen. 9.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Which shewes the grosnesse of the nature of the soule and its fleshy kind 2 It shews how we are to understand the word blood when set down in opposition to and distinguished from the flesh or body of man and therefore called the blood of the soule to shew that when the blood was spoke of the soule was intended thereby not the body Matth. 16.17 Flesh and blood hath not revealed this to thee 1 If by flesh and blood be nothing else here intended but that one part of man his Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 body it is clear this without the spirit knowes nothing 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The soule man that hath body and soule knows not the things of God of which here the spirit speaks 1 Cor. 2.14 3 Hence by flesh I understand the body 4 By blood the soule 5 These two by any innate power of their own or acquired habits cannot manifest to the spirit the mystery of God and salvation by Jesus Christ 6 The soul is so dead that
what it hath it must have from flesh and blood which is corruption or from the father it is in a state of death and all it hath is under the same before Christ hath raised it 1 Cor. 15.40 Flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdome of God 1 By Kingdom of God here is meant the Church as it doth comprehend the dispensations of the spirit within and of Christ in the Church Discipline without 2 By flesh as before is meant the body 3 By blood the soule of the naturall man 4 By these untill the spirit be quickened no man on earâ—â— can lay claime to the Kingdome of God but is by the institution of God debarred it and therefore faith one of the fruits of the spirit in those are quickened is said to be that by which men were admitted to the Kingdome Gal. 1.16 I consulted not with flesh and blood 1 I In his spirit now quickened when the Adam had no power over it to restrain it 2 This power is so far by the quickening of the spirit destroyed in him as that he immediately consults not with it but discovers it to be an enemy to Christ and his own felicity 3 By flesh and blood is meant his soul and body who had before conspired so together against the Lord and his truth 4 The revealâ—ng of Christ in him was the raising of his spirit from that death it lay in as it was said of Christ he was revealed to be the Son of God by his raising from the dead which in us is called the power of his resurrection Phil. 3.10 2 Cor. 5.16 We know no man according to the flesh 1 For blood it is said clearly God hath made all men of one blood hence the prohibition in marriages did arise to prevent its confusion A thing of speciall note 2 The flesh which is of a more externall concernment 1 He shews one man is not better according to the flesh then an other nor fitter for the Kingdome 2 It is prohibited by any prerogative it can have of the Kingdome 3 That it were the gifts of God not the inward endowments of nature or the outward beauty of the body was in the administrations of the Gospell to be respected Heb. 2.14 For as much as the Children are partakers of flesh and blood be also himselfe tooke part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death 1 By flesh and blood the natural mans body and soule are in this place set out of which Christ was a real partaker being made like to us in all things sin only excepted 2 As far as Christ was flesh and blood he suffered death 3 By this death of his he destroyed him that had the power of death which is the Devill which death was the pouring out of his soule to death 4 Without the right understanding in what and how Christ died no true nor right use of his death can be made The understanding of flesh and blood in this sence opens many hid Truths 1 That when the spirit of God names the body the soule is usually added to it when flesh then blood sets out the soule 2 As flesh and blood are together so soule and body are as appears in the Scripture dialect Note Moses sprinkling the people with the blood of the beasts called the blood of the Covenant sprinkled them with the soule of the beasts and the blood of the new Covenant is the blood of the soule of Christ though not the soule 1 Cor. 11.27 He is guilty of the body and blood of Christ 1 If by blood be meant the soul how necessary is the cup Christ gave not his flesh but blood also how doe the Papists abuse poor men in keeping it away 2 If by the blood be meant in the Scripture the soul multitudes of Scripture are not yet understood but in a carnal sence which wil spiritually in glory appear on their manifestation 3 Luk. 13.1 Pilats sin namely in mixing mans blood with the blood of the beasts which hee sacrificed to Satan aggravates the sinne 4 If the body comprehends the blood or the blood be spoke of as of the body only why are they thus distinguished in a word it is to set forth the Lords death who dyed in soul as well as body Job 2.4 All that a man hath will be give for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his soule ver 6. He is in thy hand but spare his soule And this agrees with that of Christ What shall a man give in exchange of his soule Acts 20.24 I account not my soule dear to my selfe 1 The regenerate part speaks the spirit which was above the soul 2 It speaks its esteem of his soule 3 On what account it speaks so it would not speak so upon any other occasion whatsoever Ezek. 18.20 The soule that sinneth it shall dye Orig. 13 Tom. on John pag. 191. 1 The spirit dyed in Adam in Adam all die by that which is called Original sin 2 The soule that lives by another life in the body and is under the law Morall the transgressions whereof were death so that â—ere is intended the Lords mediate punishing of man with death by the Magistrate or else immediate by himselfe In V. 3. Ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb the Fathers have eate sowre grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge 1 This proverb was true in the spirits death by that sin is called originall in Adam 2 God saith it should be so no more 3 Now the next death is of the soule to which in the after Scripture he only alludes Ver. 4. All soules are mine as the soule of the Father so of the Son the soule that sinneth it shall dye 4 No soule by justice dyeth but for breach of the moral Law â—â—one which is properly its by act not imputation 5 It is clear each man hath a particular soul as well as spirit or â—ody if any two bodies had one soule it were the Father and â—on which the word doth say are distinct 6 If yee understand by death eternal death only then yee make void the Law of God 7 There is a notable distinction used by the Apostle 1 Cor. 6.18 Fornication is sin unto the body of all other sin and James sin ariseth from lust 1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh is grasse and all the glory of man as the flower of the grasse the grasse withereth and the flower thereof falleth 1 The body is the flesh the grasse 2 The soule the flower and glory of man 3 As the grasse withereth the flower falleth 4 The end of the one and the other seem to differ as they differ in themselves but fade and fall together 5 The grasse and flower are of one nature and subject to change though differing in their forme and beauty Object 1. 1 Pet. 4.19 Commit the keeping of their soules to him in well doing Hence men are to commit their soules
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
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-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
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
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