as the spirit 4 No Scripture says that any soule is yet in heaven Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep Second part of the difference is between these Scriptures say 1 That the souls dye 2 That they only sleep Note In this is the great controversie for by the one it is mortall and the other it seems not to be so 1 For reconciliation we are to distinguish between the differing nature of Death in these parts of man for as the parts differ in themselves so their deaths differ the spirit is dead while in the body and the soule and body alive but never suffers corruption as the body doth in its death whose death is a totall privation of life sence and motion ending in corruption 2 The soules death differs from that of the spirit and that of body 1 Gods leaving the spirit it dies by withdrawing the spirits operation from it which when by Christ it returned into man he is raised from the spirit death 2 The soule leaving the body it dyes 3 The spirit leaving the soule it suffers its death as the body lives by the soule so the soule by the spirit so that when the spirit is gone the soule is dead as the body moves not without the soule so the soule acts not without the spirit be in her who is its life in it s as well natural as spiritual being Conclusion 1 Unbeleevers and all men by nature are subject to this death of soul as that of spirit and body as being the way and means designed of God for their dissolution 2 Beleevers now though their spirits forsake the soule yet the spirit of Christ being with their soules and they said to sleepe in Jesus it is a sleepe to them though a death to others 3. As somnum is imago mortis it shews the difference seems not much between these there is at least the image of the one in the other though not the other 4 This is a further clearing of the preciousness of the first resurrection and Christs so oft saying to his people they should not see death nor taste of death Vse To shew what a sweet use of Christ in mans forsaken condition is lost and unknown Now if Christ bee with us and wee in Christ though in the grave what matters it we are safe enough whiles in Christ 5 The death of the soule is that it is not with God nor God with it in the absence of its spirit its naturall life and body but sin and death hath dominion over them which it hath not over those asleep in Christ Object Christs soule is said to dye Resp 1. Christs soule was left of its spirit as ours which was one part of this death 2 Hee cries out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me which was that other part God forsook the creature the soule in Christ of which O how sensible was hee though wee are not of the spirits death 3. This is more clear Thou wilt not leave my soule in grave that is no longer but the appointed time of three dayes and after God and his spirit would come to the soule and also raise the body 4 This was he in soul to suffer with man that he might become a ransome for and redeem men from death and the grave where hee indured what man by sinne should suffer under death in the grave 5 Hence those that beleeve not and are not in Jesus doe not sleep in Jesus but are dead and so only are ye to understand the Scriptures when it speaks of the dead in soul and body it cals them dead only but of the beleevers as of men that sleep and sleep in Christin the soule 6 When as the Scriptures speak of the dead in Christ then they cheifly respect the bodies not the soules of Saints Vse Shews what multitudes of lyes and errors are taught in the name of Christ and how destructive the doctrine now taught is 2 How obscure the faith of Christ and the Gospel is in this and multitudes of other cases is not seen nor credited 3 Vse Confirmation of this is deduced hence The spirit dieth and the body dyeth and by the argument of the souls mortality that though God hath said in many Scriptures the soul doth dye and the soule that sinneth shall dye 4 The wages of sin is death and the soul that sinneth shall dye and yet it must not dye how contrary this is to Gods word and Justice and mans desert let the world be judge 5 It is set down in the future tence shall die and shews that it is to be another death on the soule then what was on man by Adams fall Object They make the soul doth dye but it is in Hell hereafter Resp That death of soule is a death in which spirit and body doth partake with it and is after the resurrection as they confesse 1 But that death is called the second death Rev. 21.8 2 In that it is called the second death and soule body and spirit are to die therein it is cleare all these must first suffer a first death before this second which by the now doctrine the soule doth not 1 Thes 4.14 16. In one the soules are said to sleep in Jesus in the other the body dead in Jesus the same persons being spoken of Reasons why the Soules of Saints sleep but of Vnbeleevers are dead FIrst The beleeving soule through the seed of faith and hope sleeps only and is not dead as those without hope Secondly The soule though it be left of its own spirit yet it is in the spirit of Christ Thirdly In this is fulfilled that the beleever seeth not nor doth hee tast of death he being by his faith in the name of the Son of God kept from the power of death Fourthly Christ hath by his souls death redeemed theirs from that death the souls of unbeleevers dye 1 This is in Lazarus set forth John 11.4 This sicknesse is not to death his soul not dying Ver. 11. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth they not understanding the soules sleep Ver. 14. he spake more plainly he is dead speaking of his body Ver. 4. if not thus understood is a mystery that the sicknesse was not to death and yet hee dyed 2 This is seen in Stephen Act. 7.59 Hee commends his spirit to Christ ver 60. his soule is made asleep his body chap. 8.2 is committed to the grave the significancy of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his death chap. 8.1 is exceeding great and signifies his resolution as the taking down of a house The life of the soule is maintained within it by hope and differenceth the dead and living soules 1 Hence hope is said to be the anchor of the soule Heb. 6.19 2 The Apostles 1 Thes 4.13 I would not have you ignorant Brethren concerning those that sleep that they mourn not as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those others those that have no hope Thus Mark. 5.39 Why lament yee and
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
Have not we much more cause to love him for it and inquire into it that it may be a cause of our love to him also what need have our hearts to be stirred up thereunto O know to lay down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the life a vapour is nothing like this to ingage Gods love to Christ or mans either 3. 1 John 3.16 in this we have knowne love because he laid downe his soule for us as if without this laying downe of his soule no soule can know his love not in laying down of his life or being man c. Io. 15.13 4. What Christ did we may and ought doe by laying downe our souls for the brethren 5 Isa 53.10 His soul was made an offering for sin in which we may see how far the soule of Christ acted in the work of our salvation and how unable wee are to bee saved without it and beleeving it against all which men oppose themselves in these dayes 6 His soule was in the grave Act. 2.31 7 He saith his soule was heavy to the death Math. 26.38 Quer. If all this were done in Christs soul whether our souls are not capable of and lyable to the same things in this world he was in all things tempted like us Object Christ suffered in the flesh for us 1 Pet. 4.1 and therefore not in his soule 1 His suffering in the flesh contains all those sorrows afflictions pains and torments were laid on him before his death 2 In his death and death of soule was the last end of all his sufferings 3 The pouring of his soule out to death was in the soul a suffering in a speciall manner 4 As he that saith Christ ascended into Heaven with his body in so saying denies not he also ascended into the heavens in his soule so in saying Christ suffered in his flesh it is not denyed that he also suffered in his soule 8 The soule and body of Christ being thus carryed home to the house of death the grave Christ by his Spirit and Almightinesse redeems his soule and in that others destroying death delivers the body from the grave and the bonds thereof Hos 13.14 9 The excellency of the soule Mat. 16.22 Mark 8.37 what shall it advantage a man to gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule or what shall a man give in exchange for his soule 10 If figurative speeches would prove any thing Rev. 16.3 were effectuall where mens soules of the Antichristian estate are every one said to dye which shews it concerns men of the false Church estate every one of them to mind their estates Matth. 20.28 He gave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his soule a ransome for many 1 The soule of Christ was the ransome 2 This ransom was paid by death or could not be paid Mar. 10.45 1 Joh. 3.16 Rev. 12.11 They loved not their souls to death 1 That is they gave their souls to death 2 This the word injoyns saying he that saveth shall lose his soul The fleshy nature of the soule is clear in that it came out of the loyns by propagation in that God saith what ever is of the flesh is flesh Joh. 3.6 1 This is notably manifested in the seat of the soule that it is in the blood Eccles 6.2 Luk. 12.23 is not the soule more then meat and the body then raiment Math. 6.25 Luk. 12.22 Take no thought for your soule what yee shall cate or what yee shall drinke Eccles 6.2 3. Note 1. Rayment that is proper to the body that looks for it 2 The soule that minds meat and drink careing for it as being very sensible of the lack thereof and delighted in the injoyment of it Salomons Prov. 27.7 The full soul loatheth the hony comb but to the hungry soule every bitter thing is sweet Psal 107.5 Hungry and thirsty their soules fainted in them Note it is observable God speaking of spirituall hunger he saith not he hath filled the hungry soul but the hungry only with good things Luk. 1.53 or as Psal 107.9 he distinguishes the soule hungring for goodnesse and that for meat and drink 3. Job 33.20 His life abhorreth bread and his soule desireable meat the soul it longs for meats that are pleasing to its appetite in which is the sensuality of it Note this is an emminent argument of the soules fleshy nature and subjectnesse to mortality 4 If the soule may live without why saies the Lord to it to take it off your father knoweth that yee have need of these things 5 Why doth he use this Argument to the soule that it is more then food as to the body that it is more then raiment if the soules necessitys were not supplyed in the one as the bodies in the other Reason of it is because the seat of the soule is in the blood which is fed with food meat and drinke 6. Gen. 34.3 Shechems soule clave unto Dinah which shews the terrene carnall nature of the soule being conversant about fleshly things Object Fleshly lusts war against the soule 1 Pet. 2.11 here it seems the desires of meat and drink are not of the soule but the flesh here by wars against it Resp 1. I beseech you as Pilgrims and Strangers to be taken off from fleshy lusts which war against the soule Noting that the fleshly lusts of the soule did oppose and hinder it from those things did more especially concern it which were offered to them by the Spirit but care of eating and drinking would not give them leave This is no more then what Christ did before in saying take no care what yee shall eate Here in the flesh they are but Pilgrims and strangers to the world and therefore the soul to seek satisfaction in these was against it selfe 1. In that he exhorts them to be taken off from them shews the whole man flesh body and dead spirit were once all fixt upon it and after quickening troubled with it 2 And whereas the flesh and spirit may say and object why we must care for meat and drinke these are so necessary that our soule cannot be without it Note the Spirit of God makes as it were an answer to it saying the lusting after these things doe warre against the soule and were enemies to it And shewes that these things they should have without having their minds carryed after and perplexed with care for them as in Luk. 12.22 3 It is usuall that the mind of man is divided into carnall and spirituall whiles it is set on cloath and food it is carnal when on God and Christ spirituall Note now the soule of the regenerate is for spirituall things but the souls care of food wars against him in those desires of life God hath quickened in him to kill and destroy them 4 It shews how the soule is affected with fleshy things the delights sweetnesse pleasure gaine losse of them and how the gay out-side things of the world are in its mind being said to be carnally minded
word and fulfilled in man one on his spirit which differs in kind from that of the soule and then there is death in hell as God of one matter made many creatures so of one breath many lives Object Adam was created mortall Resp Death entered by sin into the world and first ceized on his immortall part the spirit and after on the soule had not man finned death had never been on soul or spirit Object 6. Luk. 12.20 This night they shall require thy soule It seems hence the soule is immortall and was taken from the body by the devils Note the words are parabolicall Resp 1. Who these they are is not set down in the Scripture before going or that that followeth after 2 By they are meant the grave and death of whom God saith I will ransome them from the hand of the grave and power of death Hos 13.14 death hath the soule first and after the grave hath soule and body 3 That the grave requires such a soule as fitted for it and the manner Isa 14.9 the grave from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming And Isa 5.14 the grave opened her mouth wide And Salomons Proverbs tel what she means by her cry give give me this or that soule Job 17.1 the graves are ready for me 4 As the grave so death and the law compare Ps 118.18 Ier. 15.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those are for death to death God gives him up to death to take him Object 7 He should rather have spoke of his body then Resp As the fool spake to his soule not body so doth God also 2 If the soule be required the body must be 3 The soule and body lie in grave 4 The foole had more wit then we he saw his soul did partake of the meat he eat and drink and mirth in them which I have not understood Quest In what was his folly then 1 In that he made provision for the flesh not spirit and took up his rest in these earthly things as if he needed no more 2 In that he had goods for many years and his soule might take its ease and never thought his life was of so short continuance 3 That he was now to go to the grave when these should be left to he knew not whom and he have no more to doe with any such things Object 8. Rev. 6.9.10 The soules under the Altar cry how long before thou avenge our blood Hieron ad Vigilantium Ep. Lib. 3. ais enim c. subter aram Dei animas Apostolorum martyrum consedisse nec posse suis tumulis neque ubi voluerunt esse presentes in terra Resp 1. The way of answering Tropological sayings hath been Theologia symbolica non est argumentativa 2 But to answer it indeed is to know what the Altar is and that is Christ at whose feet the Martyrs as the beasts slaine had their blood poured out and to which here the Spirit alludes 3 Where the soules are that are said to bee under the Altar Resp Where ever they are they are under the Altar and not forsaken of Christ as Christs soule was not left of his Father hence they are said to sleep in Jesus and the dead in Christ 1 Thes 4.13 14. Matth. 27.52 4 The soules are said to cry after they were slain ergo not dead Resp A soul hath no articulate voyce to cry with and therefore can be nothing else but Gods beholding the blood and past death the enemy of Saints Antichrist had cruelly spilt Obj. Here are the soules and blood of soules the cry is from the soul not the blood Res It was the same in Abels blood Gen. 4.10 Heb. 12.24 the soul is not seen nor heard 6 Of this Altar speaks the Apostle We have an Altar which they that serve at the Tabernacle have no right to eate 7 As the Altar is a metaphoricall speech so the soules cry and the souls being under the Altar under which some Gospel truth is mystically represented thereby unto us as that the blood of Saints now came to be inquired after Revel 18.24 and 19.2 and 16.6 Note from the nearnesse of blood and the soule 1. Gen. 9.4 5. God giving leave to man to eate flesh forbid him to eate blood before the Ceremoniall Law 2 Under the Ceremoniall Law 3 After the Ceremoniall Law in the Gospel estate Act. 15.29 by which the esteem and mystery of Christs blood in the Sacrament is exalted 4 On this ground Marriages of such as are of consanguinity and next affinity with the Husband and Wife are forbid because of confusion 5 There is in eating blood a confusion of souls with soules as Pilat mingled the blood of men with blood of beasts Obje 9. Every creature of God is good c. for it is sanctified by the Word and prayer 1 Tim. 4.4 5. Resp Note the dependance of its lawfulnesse because sanctified by the word but if the word forbid a thing then it is otherwise Object 10. Not that goeth into a man but that which commeth out doth defile a man Mat. 15.11 Res This is spoken in contempt of a natural defilement by meat eaten without washt hands as being the cause of Christs speaking the words Note under the Gospell the eating blood is forbid for the reverence to be had to the drinking of the blood of Christ Sacramentally also Obj. Tit. 1.15 To the pure all things are pure 1 Cor. 7.14 Their Wife and children are pure yet not to be eat so blood is pure but not to be eate 1 Tim. 4.3 The Apostle shews it was a sign of the false Teachers to command to abstain from meates calling it doctrine of devils Col. 2.21 1 See abstinence was from meat not from drinking blood 2 It was on a religious ground not a morall ground as this 3 There was an abstinence from meat sacrificed to Idols 1 Cor. 10. Object 1 Cor. 10.25 27. What ever is sold in the Shambles and what ever is set before you eate Resp The Gentiles themselves but in their Temples and worship did abstain from eating and drinking blood 4 The abstinence spok of to the Colossians was Judaizing abstinence from meats 5 That of Timothy was Antichrists corrupt worship and religion placed in such things Object 11. Matth. 10.28 Fear not those that kill the body but cannot kill the soule 1 This Scriptures obscurity is to bee explained by Luk. 12.4 which was spoke at the same time and the same thing intended in that of Luke as that of Matthew as in the verses before these Scriptures and after they being the same words matter and occasion in one as in the other 2 In which this general rule is to be observed for the understanding the historians of Christs life 1 That what seems to be obscure in one we are to seek an explanation of in the other 2 What seems wanting in one wee ought to seek the supply thereof in the other 3 That the mind
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
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
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