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
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
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