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
of God is not fully knowne in one history if the same be recorded by another nay nor in two if recorded in three as many are Now this story and words are only set down in this Matth. 10. and Luk. 12 in which two yee have the mind of God concerning the same Matth. 10.28 Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soule but rather fear him that is able to destroy both soule and body in hell Luk. 12.4 Be not afraid of them that can kill the body and after that have no more that they can doe but I will forewarn you whom yee shall fear fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell 1 Life is distinguished as I shewed you before from the soul which dyeth by the death of the body but not in it being distinct from it 2 Life as thus distinct from the soule is said to be taken away by the sword Job 33.18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword Thus also in ver 22. In which life which perisheth by the sword is that called here the killing of the body for that is that man doth on which dissolving the chain of life the Spirit leaves the soule and the soule say some lyeth in the body asleep in the grave and under the Altar Nor others it is dead by the spirits departure from the soule as the body by lifes departure from it in which is dissolved the most glorious fabrick of the earth 3 Luke speaks of that killing of the soul which is after death and not at the dissolution of the body in death even of casting the soul and body into hell 1 Note on the killing of the body you have compleated the first death of spirit soule and body in unbeleevers 2 In that is to be done after is the second death which men have no hand in when God onely casts soule and spirit and body into hel which is the second death which is that Christs eie is upon 3 Or that is after the death of the body to be done on it is to raise the soule and awake that quicken the body restore the spirit and then bring it to Judgement It is appointed to all to dye and after that to come to Judgement Note in this place clearly are expressed but two parts of man his body his soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirit being dead before 2 Man every man undeniably consists of three soul body spirit 3 The spirit must be understood here as well as the rest and that in the soul which canot be killed nor dyeth not in the way of man 4 He speaks of the soule rather then spirit because the men of the world are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their very spirits yea God Gen. 6.5 says man is flesh soule spirit body are called flesh in that place through the carnall mind which was in them eating drinking marrying building planting onely thought on Note from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth trucidare to tear rend cut and slash which may bee done by man on the body or beasts but the soule men cannot come at to use it in like kind being of a more spirituall substance and nature 2 That Christs eye is especially on this to take away the discomforts hung on the hearts of his people seeing some whipt others cut stoned 2 Cor. 11 25. sawen asunder slain with the sword scourged Heb. 11.37 why this trucidation of men is but on the body the soule they cannot make suffer in this kind that joyes within whiles the body indures this without they cannot tear that if not that much lesse the spirit Job 33.18 20 22 28. the life the sword destroys not the soule Heb. 6.19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soule Acts 2.26 Having spoke that the heart should be glad and the tongue rejoyce in which the soule was intimated my flesh also shall rest in hope 1 It hopes as the soule and with the soule 2 The soule and flesh though they goe to the grave together yet hope in the Word Truth Power and Promises of God it shall arise and be incorruptible though it see it not 3 This is significantly manifested in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 moreover that is besides my soule my flesh shall rest in hope 4 In that hope is the souls and the only use of it when the soule and body lye in the grave it describes the soules nature and estate The Metaphor is thus opened 1 Whiles the spirituall man in spirit soule and body was carried through the sea of this world by the gales of the Spirit of God and helpe of the north star and the Word its compasse steered its course towards heaven 2 But when the Spirit the Pilot left the ship the body the soul went no fâ—rther but made use of hope as its Anchor and there rested where the Spirit left it 3 Wâ—ere it waited for the return of the Spirit from the Lord and the Lord bringing it to the desired port and Haven of rest with the Lord in heavenly places Heraclitus said Animis mors est aquam fieri 1 The Naturalists say the water that came out of Christs side was that was contained in the Pericardian 2 What relation this had to the soule or the soule to it I dare not determine 3 This we know that the Sacraments of Baptisme was instituted with water the Lords Supper with blood August Sacramenta manant e latere Christi Clemens Alex. paed liq 1. cap. 6. Sanguis enim invenitur primum genitus in homine quem nonnulli ausi sunt dicere substantiam animae Austins wrote 16 chap. to prove the immortality of the soule in all which I remember not he makes use of one Text of Scripture but Philosophically handles the Question nor doth he mention the spirit such a darkness in his time Philosophy had drawn on men who seeking to be wise became fools Ezek. â—6 9. I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live 1 A naturall man in that estate is as a child at his birth in blood and corruption as he came out of the womb 2 God in his blood-estate said live that is quickned her by his Word and Spirit Thrice live first in soule then spirit naturally then spiritually Vers 8. God in love covers her nakednesse makes a Covenant and becomes her Husband Vers 9. Hee washed her with water baptisme and washed away her blood and anoynted her with oyle that is with the Holy Spirits Baptisme after beleeving and baptisme which shewes in this place Gods eye in especiall was on the estate of the Gospell Church Vers 12. A Crown on her head the state of the Gospel Rev. 12.1 Vers 14. Her renown went among the Gentiles when followed the Gentiles call Note she was alive yet in her blood when God says again and again live and shews her life was
nothing which she had in her blood I might on this subject exceed were it to the purpose propounded Vers 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the casting forth of seed was thy soule where is the male in coition with the female Ver. 6. He is in his blood in the womb when God first gave life to him as to Adam Blood is the seat of the Soule and so related to and concerned in it that great are the mysteries of it as concerning Jesus Christ THe new Testament was made in the blood of Christ Heb. 13.20 Luk. 22.20 1 Cor. 11.25 1 Without shedding of blood is no remission 2 The blood of Jesus cleanseth the conscience Heb. 9.14 and from all sin 1 John 17. Rev. 1.5 3 Heb. 10.19 20. By his blood we have an admission to God 4. Vers 22. Water is for the body baptism blood the conscience 5. The use whereof was set out in sprinkling pots and cups Heb. 10.22 1 Pet 1.2 this speaks peace Heb. 12.13 Note in this was the glorious act of redemption wrought and justice more excellently satisfied then in what was done on the body 1 God requiring blood for blood when a man was to dye for staying of a man so now man being for sin to dye he cannot be saved but by the death of his Son for Man 2 He requires soule for soule which are indeed the same and without this there is no remission Ap. the necessity of this knowledge I commend to all to judge of 2 King 10.24 Gen. 9.5 6. Exod. 21.23 typified in the beasts slaine for sacrifice Deut. 19.21 1 John 5.7 3 Three beare witnesse in heaven in the God-head the Father the Word the Spirit 4 Three bear witnesse in earth in the manhood of Christ the Spirit the Water the Blood Now these three accordingly are applied by Christ to man for and towards his restauration descending to him in which as Eliah 2 King 4.34 Christ applyed himselfe to man to restore him 1 Using his Spirit to quicken the dead spirit of man by which the Lord is called a quickening Spirit 2 After that hee applyes the water answering to his humane nature to wash the body by baptism 3 The blood in the Lords Supper and in redemption by his blood which is the soule part of Christ to cleanse the Conscience John 19.34 35. 1 If we have not the use of Christ in these severall ways as he hath appointed to communicate himselfe to man our faith is vain 2 This of the spirit is all that and the first only necessary thing to be apprehended for the flesh profiteth nothing it is the spirit quickeneth Joh. 6.63 3 The end of grace here is that men may be raised in spirit and be partaker of the first resurrection Rev. 20.6 unlesse this be done Christ doth nothing and this is to be done on the dead spirit or there is nothing done 4 As the spirit hath its good by Christs Spirit so the soule by Christs soule and flesh by Christs flesh 5 The good of each was properly to arise from the severall parts of Christ to those in man as the sinner needed them Christ being proportioned and fitted to be a perfect Saviour Object Gen. 35 18. As her soul was going forth for she died The soul as the spirit goeth forth of the body at death Resp 1. The dissolution of that unity was between spirit and soule and soule and body as the cause of death 2 It is like the soule goeth forth with the spirit though it is not said to goe to God but dyeth or sleeps as with the soule follows after the life and the body dyeth Object The soule and the spirit are one I Answer that is against Scripture Object As the spirit goeth forth to God so the soule Resp The Scriptures say not such a word of the soule The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the new Testament so often used hath a notable significancy in it to set this out for it signifies man the whole at death to suffer a resolution of parts the Spirit divided from Soule and Soule from Body in the corrupting thereof That the Soule suffers not hell Torments untill the last Judgement ROm. 2.8 speaks of the day of wrath which the soule that is impenitent treasures up wrath by rejecting Gods Counsell 2 This day is called the day of the revelation of the righteous Judgement of God which must be understood the last and great day of Judgement when and not before the judgement of God is revealed 3 Ver. 6. Then every one shall receive according to their works Ver. 7. When our mortality shall put on immortality and not before 4. Ver. 9. Then and not before shall be tribulation and anguish on every soule of man that doth evill the Jew first and then the Gentile Wisdom 3.1 6. By so much authority as it hath being Apocryphal proves it which whiles it agrees with the word I prefer before any authority that is meer humane Under the old Testament these were set forth distinct in Christ and so in us 1 The Goat was slain and sacrificed the body 2 His blood poured out the soule 3 The scape-Goat went away into the wildernesse the spirit which is not under the power of man Obj. This Goat is meant the divine Nature Resp 1. They were two Goats of the same nature and did represent the same person of the humanity only part as the body and soule dyed part was beyond the power of man and death 2 How unpossible the divine glory of the Divine nature of the Lord Jesus could admit of any shadow of change as to bee set out dividedly under the representation of a Goat the note of reprobates I leave all to judge To reconcile the seeming differences it is first necessary they be stated and compared 1. Part of the difference is about the place or ubi where they are which are set downe in Scripture 1 To be in the grave 2 To be under the Altar 3 To be in the body 4 To be in heaven 1 Note the first two are thus reconciled those that die the naturall death of all and are interred their soules are in grave 2 Those whose blood as that of the slain beasts was for Christ poured out at the feet of the altar and had no grave for their bodies nor burial their soules are under the altar and not as others the manner of their souls presence with Christ is a cry against those that shed their blood in which the soul blood are distinguished 3 As Paul 2 Cor. 12.2 Whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell yet by what is said Gen. 35.18 it goeth out of the body when it hovers over it and lieth down with it in the grave or after enters into it when dead and sleeps in it the spirit and life departed from it not being willing to be alone may return to the body as before it not vanishing as the life nor going to God
because it is the Spirit must teach the flesh to profit by Christ or he gains nothing by it Vid. Aug. Lib. Quaest Cap. 67. Anselm on the words Gregor Mor. lib. 4. cap. 30. lib. 8. cap. 4. Rom. 8.19 The expectation of the creature that is mans body as in Phi. 1.20 from without waiteth for the revelation of the Sons of God 1 John 3 2. It being not untill then glorified but corrupt Ver. 20. The creature man is subjected to vanity it not having ought but through him that hath subjected it in hope Ver. 21. For the creature it selfe by which is strictly taken the body being made after the form of the other creatures in the creation from which the spirit and soule differed shall be made free from the bondage of corruption when at the last day it shal have put on incorruption into the liberty of glory God being to be seen with these eyes that now cannot see God and live of the Sons of Gad in the flesh Ver. 22. For we know that all or the whole creature man in his spirit soule and body he before having spoken of the soule distinct in the hope and the body in its vanity nowspeaks of all groan together and travel in pain together untill now That is the body labours under the wants of the soule the soule of the body the spirit is burthened with the temptations of both Rom. 7.24 until now that is none as yet being possessed of this felicity Ver. 23. And not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the body but they the spirit and soule having the beginning of the spirit his spirit quickening our spirit that it cannot see death but is partaker of the first resurrection and the soule supported by hope sleeping in Christ is free from corruption far differing in its estate from that of the body and thence after we our selves is opposed to the body altogether before spoken of We our selves in our selves groan looking out to the felicity the redemption of our bodies Here the revelation of sons is reserved to the last day when beleevers shall be separated from unbeleevers Ver. 24. For by hope we are saved in which he alludes to the looking out and expectation of the creature ver 19 20 23 and shews man is this creature as being the only adequate object of hope Ver. 25. Who onely by patience wait for the manifestation hereof upon the perswasions of the spirit assuring man hereof by the Word of God Note verse 23. Not onely the creature the creature is added in Translation signifying the body distinct from the soule and spirit or the natural man of the first creation from the spiritual of the regeneration as after Mark 16.15 Go out into all the world preach the Gospell to every creature That the soule body and spirit is the key of Scripture and this hid the mysterie of salvation is many waies hid but especially the way of teaching it appears in this truth 1 How men corrupt the sence of the Word and loose the mind of God for here they read every creature and therefore St. Francis goeth and preacheth to the fishes and why we on this command should not preach to the beasts and fowles I know not 2 Others there are that say the Gospel is to be preached to every c. and therefore remission of sins and salvation of Christ is to be applyed to all the men on earth 1 Say they Christ redeemed all 2 The Word commands the Gospel to be preached and applied to all Note the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usually translated omnis every as respecting the number of things but when it admits not number it is read all as in the same ver and Col. 1.6 for ye cannot say in every world there being but one in all N. Now so here teach the Gospel to every creature why no creature is capable of the teaching of the Gospel but man and therefore God enjoyned the teaching of none but him if he did as men read he did then we that teach do not well to neglect them N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I rather therefore translate all the creature as before all the world and then shews 1. That the whole man hath sweet mercies set out in the Gospell 2. That the Gospell is to be distributed to its severall parts by the wise workman to make him perfect 1 There is Gospel to reform the body and form it to Christ with most sweet promises of its resurrection and glory 2 The soule the Gospel hath multitude of precious balmes for its wounds and instructions how to take heed of the flesh to leave the world to enjoy Christ and what the Lord is and will bee to the soule 3 The Word divides between soule and spirit and reproves the â—â—â—thinesse of that and reformes it to the glorious image of the Sons of God The Doctors Ministery was the first of these 1 Cor. 3.1 3. for as yet they were not fitted to embrace the more spiritual knowledge of the Gospel nor were they reformed in their lowest part 2 The soule the Pastors 1 Pet. 2.25 Peter was Pastor in Jerusalems Church and he faith yee are returned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto the Pastor that was an Office as ministring and the Bishop that was he was a Ruling Officer who was to reforme the affections and mind by exhortations Rom. 8.19 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God having quickened the spirit he by rules 1 Teaches the spirit as it is able to hear and know God and bear his yoake which first is concerned in the reforming the outward man or flesh and the soule in the lower parts thereof In the ministery of the Teacher Heb. 6.1 Repentance Baptism Resurrection and Judgement concerning the flesh Rom. 12.1 2. 2 In the instructing of the soule in its more excellent part of the mind affections Act. 14.22 and 15.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 11. fleshly lusts fight against the soul 1 Pet. 2.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pastor is of the soule 1 Pet. 1.22 3 In the instructing of the Spirit which is the Evangelists work of ministry 1 Under which three the Beleever is to bee perfected in the first hee is as a Babe in the other as a Youth in the last as a strong man in Christ 2 These three have as by a line the word laid out to them 1 Cor. 15.29 baptized for the deads the spirit the soule the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if the deads are not altogether raised c. 1 Hence Paul taught the Corinthians not as spiritual but carnal as babes in Christ where there are set out spiritual and carnal the carnal babes in Christ 1 Cor. 3.1 3. 2 Cor 4.10 11 12 13. 2 Hence Christ saith I have many things to say but yee cannot bear them now 3 This beginning is set out Rom. 8.13 If ye by the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the flesh ye shall live
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
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
ver 23. The first fruits of the spirit Col. 2.11 to the end and cap. 3. to the end of the 11. where wrath uncleannesse covetousnesse lying c. are spoken of and thus the Corinthians first Epistle is against anger malice uncleannesse 4 The Scriptures speakes of the new creature which God as in the beginning begins with the Adams creation Gal. 6.15 17. Ephes 4.23 is the spirit ver 24. the soule ver 25. the body 1 Pet. 4.1 2. Rom. 8.11 Irenaeus Lib 5. Cap. ult Commoratus est Dominus sanctorum mortuorum suorum corum qui ante dormierunt in terram stipulationis descendit ad cos extrahere eos salvare eos c. and after Ascendit quid est autem nisi quia descendit in inferiora terrae hoc David in eum prophetans dixit eripuisti animam meam ex inferno inferiori c. Si ergo Dominus legem mortuorum servavit ut fieret primo-genitus à mortuis commoratus usque in tertiam diem in inferioribus terrae post deinde surgens in carne ut etiam figuras clavoruÌ„ ostenderet discipulis sit ascendit ad patrem quomodo non confundenter qui diâ—unt inferos quidem esse hunc mundum qui sit secundum nos interiorem autem hominem ipsorum derelinquentem hic corpus in supercaelestem ascendere locum cum enim dominus in medio umbrae mortis abierit ubi animae mortuorum erant post deinde corporaliter resurrexit post resurrectionem assumptus est manifestum est quia discipulorum ejus propter quos haec operatus est Dominus animae abibunt in invisibilem locum definitum eis a Deo ibi usque ad resurrectionem commorabuntur sustinentes resurrectionem Post recipientes corpora perfecte resurgentes hoc est corporaliter quemadmodum dominus resurrexit sic veniet ad conspectum Dei Nemo enim est discipulus super magistrum perfectus autem omnis erit sicut magister ejus Quomodo ergo magister noster non statim evolans abiit sed sustinens definitum a patre resurrectionis suae tempus quod per Jonam manifestum est post triduum resurgens assumpted est sic nos sustinere debemus à d definitum a Deo resurrectionis nostrae tempus praenunciatum à prophetis sic resurgentes assumi quotquot Dominus hoc dignos habuerit Thesence of the latter part is this If therefore the Lord kept the law of the dead that he might become the first begotten from the dead and abode in the lower parts of the earth untill the third day and then after arising in the flesh that also he might shew to his Disciples the figures of the keys he forascendeth to the Father so that they should not be confounded who affirm hell to be this world which to us is so but here the body forsaking the inward man it ascends into a super-celestial place that is the Spirit For when the Lord departed in the middest of the shadow of death where the soules of the dead were he after arose bodily and after his resurrection assumed as is manifest because the soules of his Disciples for whom the Lord did these things departed into an invisible place appointed them of God and there are to remain untill the resurrection expecting it after receiving their bodies they perfectly arise that is bodily as the Lord arose and so shall come into the sight of the Lord. No Disciple is above his Master but will be perfect if he be as his Master as therefore our Master forthwith did not fly forth and depart but bearing the appointed time of his resurrection from the Father which was also manifested by Jonas who arising after three daies was taken up so we also ought to beare the defined time of our resurrection set of God and foretold of the Prophets and so rising as many as the Lord account worthy to be assumed In this yee may see how the times neare Christ taught of death and the soule and the spirit I confesse I saw not this in any of the Fathers untill I had written what goeth before many things herein I cannot assent unto though most I have on the Scriptures cited before applyed the Lord give thee judgement and understanding herein that thou mayst know the truth and worship God therein Tertull. saith thus of the soule in lib. resurrect Quasi nos seorsum ab anima simus cum totum quod sumus anima sit Denique sive anima nihil sumus ne hominis quidem sed cadaveris nomen si ergo ignoramus animam ipsa se ignorat and yet wee know not the soule nor nothing lesse then it In his book on the first Epistle to the Thessalonians against Marcion Apostolus optans ut spiritus noster corpus anima sine querela in adventu Domini conserventur nam animam posuit corpus tam duas res quam diversas licet enim animae corpus sit aliquod suae qualitatis sicut spiritus In which I suppose he strangely erres and knew little of that which he thought every man that knew any thing knew very well the nature of the spirit being far differing from the soule as the soule from the body De Resurrectione habet enim de suo solummodo cogitare velle cupere disponere ad perficiendum operam carnis expectat sic ad patiendum societatem carnis expostulat c. Ireneus Lib 5. Cap. 1. Suo igitur sanguine redimente nos Domine dante animam suam pro anima nostra carnem suam pro nostris carnibus effundente spiritum patris in admissionem communionem Dei hominum c. Ibid. Ut ab initio plasmationis nostrae in Adam eaquae fuit â Deo inspiratio vitae unita plasmati animavit hominem Animal rationabile ostendit sic in fine verbum patris spiritus Dei adunit us antiquae substantiae plasmationis Adae viventem perfectum efficit hominem capientem mortui sumus sic in spirituali omnes vivificemur Ibid. Si mortale non vivificat corruptibile non revocat ad incorruptelam jam non potens est Deus Idem Perfecius autem homo commixio adunitio est animae assumentis spiritum patris admixtae in carne quae est plasma secundum imaginem Dei Ibid. Cum autem spiritus hic commixtus animae unitur plasmati propter effusionem spiritus spiritualis perfectus homo factus est hic est qui secundum imaginem similitudinem Dei factus est si autem defuerit animae spiritus animalis est vere qui est talis carnalis derelictus imperfectus est imaginem quidem habens in plasmate similitudinem vero non assumens per spiritum Idem Sunt ex quibus perfectus homo constat carne anima spiritu Ibidem Quid est aut quid ut granum tritici seminatur
again corrects with a yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God Note in this to the full is opened that Joh. 5.17 My Father workes hereunto and I worke Vers 19. The Son can do nothing of himselfe but what he seeth the Father do whatever he doth those things also doth the Son Vers 21. As the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will Vers 26. As the Father hath life in himselfe so hath he given to the Sonne to have life in himselfe that was in the Spirit of his mind Hence he laid down his life and had power to take it again Note Moses had not the lesse of the Spirit by what the seventy had nor Christ by what the elect have the fountaine is ever full Illust If as in 2 Chron. 18.20 21. one spirit is a lying spirit in the mouth of all Ahabs Prophets how much more shall the Spirit of Christ be in and direct all the elect of God Object That was an Angelicall Spirit Resp The spirit of man was of an Angelical nature having no flesh nor bones yea if the Angels were created ex prima materia as most hold it may be of a more excellent nature then they being breathed of God into man by which man is called the off-spring of God 2 The Spirit of Christ as joyned to the Spirit of God and sent out of God into the hearts of his Elect by far exceeds the Angels who have their dependance on him as on their head in the power and way he hath of communicating it selfe to men 3 By this God makes the Spirit of the Man Christ with his soul and body to be a root a second Adam by which beleevers receive life in spirit from him as death from Adam without Gods assistance the Spirit of Christ cannot be in mine nor work on mine at all Objections made by Mr. 1 That soul and spirit were expressed exegeticos and that they are but one though they had two names Resp That to maintain these two to be one against the expresse word of God 1 Thes 5.23 Heb. 4.12 John 12.10 is heresie Luk. i. 46.47 and Luk. 23.46 with Act. 2.3 Obj. Offering the testimony of Luk. 1.46 47. he said That whereas it was read my soule and my spirit it may be read my soul my soule Resp To put down soule for spirit the word soule being before was to take away from the Word of God and to be liable to the curse of God yea to be accursed though an Angel Object The spirit of man is the Spirit of God Resp Was My that that was blasphemy because God the Spirit is said to be one with the created spirit of man sinfull filthy dead I confesse in hast I said that the Spirit Rom. 8.1 was the Spirit of God which is meant the spirit of man quickened by Christ Quest What the distinct difference was between the spirit and soul of man Resp Solomon Eccles 3.21 who knoweth the spirit of a man with whose death the knowledge of it dyed also 2 Yet a more apparent difference to distinguish them cannot be then this that the one the spirit hath its being imediately from God Eccles 12.7 the other the soule from man Exod. 1.5 Gen. 46.24 Heb. 7.10 3 They in the dissolution of the fabrick of Man are distinguished the spirit returning to God the soule to the grave Note So that to affirm soule and spirit to be one I declared to be false doctrine and the Teachers false Teachers that taught it Object Gen. 2.8 God breathed into man the breath of life Man therefore had but one life which was his soul life Resp The word is corruptly translated it is not life but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lives and so the spirit life is comprehended under the same word Object After it is said and man became a living soul therefore man had no other but a soule in him Resp The words are thus to be read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Adam the body was for the living soule which had but one of the lives the body being to the soule especially it being near to it partaking with it in eating drinking suffering c. which the spirit doth not but is of a more sublime and excellent nature 1 The soule comes from man with the body in its beginning 2 It goeth to the grave with the body in its ending 3 It is not said the Adam was for the souls life as before Quest Matth. 22.27 Mark 12.30 Luk. 10.27 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soule with all thy mind with all thy strength which is the body which the soule which the spirit Resp 1. The Question is propounded concerning a command of the law which command was given after mans fall by sin and the spirits death 2 The commands were given the fleshy part of man whence it is said by the Law no flesh living can be justified Ezek. 20.18 Rom. 8.3 Rom. 3.20 3 Hence for the spirit of man it could have no releife by the Law Gal. 3.21 it could not make alive that is the dead spirit as Christ was to do 1 Cor. 15.45 4. Rom. 3.19 What the Law speaks it speaks to them under the Law 1 The spirit when alive it was not under any dominion of the Law man then was a law to himselfe he needed none nor was any given untill two thousand years after mans fall 2 When it was dead it was under none for Rom. 7.1 The Law hath dominion over a man onely whiles alive not when dead therefore Christ first quickeneth the spirits before he give them that Law 3 When the spirit is quickened by Christ it is dead to the Law of the flesh and freed and in subjection onely to the Law of the Spirit of life Rom. 2.8 distinguished Rom. 3.27 4 Here are not three parts but four Heart Mind Soule Strength 1 Which shews that the Spirit Soule and Body are not aimed at as in the other Scriptures 2 That here as the command was given the Naturall man the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the naturall mans parts of Heart and Soule Strength and Mind are intended and not the Spirit that was dead in man and was not capable of obedience or command Object The Law is spiritual Rom. 7.14 Resp The Law indeed is said to be spiritual but no where said to be a Law of the Spirit 2 The spirituality of the Law 1 Is in mentioning the Name of God and forbidding Idol-worship and injoyning the love of God 2 It is spiritual in condemning coveting 3 Yet see that God had a mind to the Soule and Body in these commands 1 Consider the preface I am the Lord thy God c. in which the deliverance of the soule and body not the spirit is mentioned 2 By this Law men were judged by the Magistrate to whom the soul was subjected not the spirit Rom. 13.1 3 Hence Ezek. 18.20 the soule is said to dye by and to be under this Law I proposed this to him 1 That no Scripture saith at death the soule returneth to God or goeth immediately to Heaven before the resurrection but that it goeth to the grave 2 That no Saint ever commended his soule to God at death but his spirit which is onely said to return to God that gave it and the Adam to the dust and earth Ap. If the Scripture saith in many places the soul goeth to the grave and in no place that it immediately goeth to God before the resurrection who shall assert it and not teach false Doctrine and not teach another Gospell 2 If the Scripture saith at the death of a man only the spirit goeth to God immediately for its judgement and yet men teach that we have no spirit or make soule and spirit one and confound those God hath distinguished To which I add this most weighty Query and Objection may be made Since that the spirit comes from God whether then it be polluted or not as it comes out of Gods hand Resp Adam sinning as a general person dyed not onely in his own spirit but brought death on the spirits of his whole race for in Adam all dye whose death was in spirit 2 Hence God giving the Spirit gives it not possessed of that spiritual life as he gave it to Adam in its first being but that it comes into man now deprived of his first life and excellency 3 That it is thus given dead appears in that as a remedy Christ by God is given to man as a quickening Spirit to restore and raise the dead spirit of man againe 4 As Adam so Christ is designed by grace a generall person for good to the Elect of God as Adam was by Justice for death to all 5 It is clear the spirits now created of men that the grace of God might abound are not in the capacity Adams was before but in that it was after its fall Obj. Some will cry out this is injustice in God for God to give men a dead spirit and unbeseeming God