Look not without on Votes alone But see what's hid in Flesh and Bone. Ecce Homo; THE Little PARLIAMENT unboweled: WITH, The substance, quality, and disposition of the outward Members; and inward faculties, virtues, and properties. The glory of the good ones, and sad condition of rotten backsliders. 1 COR. 10. 15. I speak as to wise men: judge ye what I say. LONDON. Printed by JANE COE, and are to be sold at her house without creeplegate: 1644. TO The Honourable and truly Pious, WILLIAM LENTHALL Esquire▪ Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled. Renowned Patriot; WHen I consider those admired gifts wherewith your honour is so excellently qualified: I censure it too much abruptness to present such worth with so mean a talent; yet having had the happiness to be an eyewitness of your love and countenance to Religion and piety: And knowing how ignorant many are, not only of God, but themselves too; who may be bettered (if God please to give a blessing to this my labour) by the use hereof; I humbly crave leave to beg this favour to patronize my poor endeavours, published for the meditation of those who know better, and instruction of those that know less: That all who use it, may savingly know God, and themselves; which for you and all God's people, is the prayers of Your humble Servant, Henry walker. The Contents of the Chapters contained in this book. CHAP. I. Seweth what the soul is. Chap. 2. showeth whence the souls come▪ when and how they enter into the bodies. Chap. 3. showeth the purity of the soul. Cha. 4. showeth how the soul is defiled with ●…ginall sin. Chap. 5. showeth how the Sensative part of the soul. Chap. 6. The powers of the soul's essence. Chap. 7. The faculties of the soul. Chap. 8. That when the body dieth, the soul neither sleepeth nor perisheth, but goeth immediately, either to joy or torment. Chap. 9 Souls remain where they are sent till the Resurrection. Chap. 10. The inward faculties, and virtues of the body. Chap. 11. Of the vital spirits. Chap. 12. Of the periurbations, and passions of the mind. Chap. 13. Of the particular faculties of the mind●…. Chap. 14. The distinction of the faculties of the soul, from the faculties of the mind. Chap. 15. The leading of the flesh, or spirit one by the other. Chap. 16. Of the resurrection, Chap. 17. Of Hell. Chap. 18. Of Heaven. A SECRET Disclosed. CHAP. I. showeth what the soul of man is. I. SOme a Pythagoras. define the soul to be the Spirit of life, created after the Image of God, and inspired into the body of man. II. Others say it is an understanding spirit, the second part of the substance of man, which doth not perish, when it departeth from the body, but is immortal. III. But the true description of the soul (according to the definition of great learned men) is this; Namely, that the soul of man is a spiritual substance, 〈◊〉 Alley. ●…s. 13. ●…aelec. 2●… infused of God into the body of man, that being joined thereto, may give it life, direct, and rule it, and being separated from the body, doth not perish, but live immortally, and eternally. ●…. The soul is a very substantial ●…actanti. opifi●…ia ●…ei. essence, and not a quality. A quality without a substance, is Argu. not sensible of joy or torment. But the soul of man is in itself sensible of joy or sorrow. Ergo. The soul of man is a very Example. substantial essence. The soul of the Luk. 16. Luke. 23. Apo. 6. rich glutton was tormented in Hell. The soul of the thief was with Christ in paradise. The souls under the Altar did cry aloud. 2. This substance of the soul is Augustin. de quanti●…at. animae. cap. 1. not of these usual and known natures, which we touch, and perceive, with these senses of the body, which are corporal, but a spiritual substance. That substance which consisteth Argu. neither of earth, water, air, nor fire, neither of any of them severally, of part of them, or of them all joined together, doth consist, not of a corporal, but of a spiritual substance. But the substance of the soul doth Cassiod●… Austin▪ consist, neither of earth, air, fire, nor water; of any of them, nor of all of them. Ergo: The soul of man is not a corporal, Exampl●… but a spiritual substance. God breathed the soul of Adam into Gen. 2. 7 1 Cor. 1●… 4●… his body. First, God made Adam a natural body; then gave him a spiritual soul. The body was a type of Adam, the soul a type of Christ: therefore, when the body, the earthly part of man dyeth: the soul which is spiritual, dieth not, but departeth Gen. 35. ●… pointeth it. 3. The soul of man, is of God infused into the body, and not received by generation from the parents. That which we received from our Argume●… parents, we received by generation from them; but we received not our D. Wille●… Synops. souls by generation from our paretns, but from God who gave them. Ergo. We received not our souls from our parents, but from God. God 〈◊〉 saith Zechariah) formed the spirit of man within him: Our ●…b. 12▪ 9 ●…l. 12. 17. parents are the fathers of our bodies, but God is himself, the father of our souls; therefore, when we die, the ●…le. 12▪ 7. soul perisheth not with the body in death, but returneth to God that gave it. CHAP. II. showeth whence the souls come, when, and how, they enter into the bodies. I. SOme have thought, that the soul ●…lato. ●…rigen. doth slide from Heaven. II. Others have thought, that the soul hath 〈◊〉, ●…anichies, riscilians. its original from the proper substance of God. III. Some do believe, that all the souls being once made together, are reserved in the treasure-house of God, and so sent into the bodies after the perfection thereof. iv. Others do suppose, that as the body ●…ertullian, 〈◊〉▪ West-Church. H●…erome▪ cometh of the body, so the soul (also) springeth of the soul. V. Others have declared, that the souls of men, are daily made of God, and so sent into the bodies. VI. Lastly, others of better approved judgements in this particular: affirm, the soul to be made B▪ Alley, Prael. 2. 〈◊〉 the soul. Resp. 3. by God of nothing, and to be poured of God into the body, when that the fruit is made perfect in the mother's womb, with shape, and all other Psal. 33. 1 Job 10. parts. It is the Lord that fashioneth the soul of man in him, and preserveth man by it. CHAP. III. showeth the purity of the soul. THe soul is created of God, pure, and holy; as God createth it, in its own simple nature, in respect of God. What God createth to praise his Argument. name, he createth pure, and holy, Isai. 43. 7. But God createth the soul of man to praise his name, Psal. 119. 175. Ergo. God createth the soul of man Conclus●…on. pure, and holy: Therefore, saith Austin, Anima recens creata, ab omni De natur●… great. co●… pelag. l●… 3. c. 10. delicto immunis: The soul newly created, is void of all offence; that is, in respect of God. CHAP. IV. showeth how the soul is defiled by original sin. THe soul of man, beingr ceated in the ●…. Wille●…. ●…nops. ●…l. 864. midst of the body, in an unclean and polluted place doth forthwith (being coupled to the body) begin to be unclean, because the body in which it is created, is defiled by propogation from our parents through original sin. Though the body be defiled by propogation from our parents, through sin, yet doth not sin springfrom the body, but from the soul; Matth. 15. ●…8. so that the soul is properly ●…lat. 15. 18. ●…. Willet, ●…l. 1107. the principal agent in sin, and the body the instrument of the soul. The purest rain water that comes ●…imile. from heaven, no sooner falls upon the earth (on a dirty place) but it becomes forthwith, the moisture of that dirt, and with it polluted. So doth the soul of man, which God from heaven places in the body, a dirty defiled place, it is no sooner coupled therewith, but becomes forthwith to be unclean. The reward of sin is death. Rom. 6. 2▪ But sin is not in the body till the Argum soul come. Ergo, The soul that sinneth with Ephes. 1●… the body is guilty of death. Object. If sin be an adjunct of the Objctio soul, not of the body, so that it is not in the body before the soul come, and that the soul is created of God, pure and ●…nspotted, and so placed in the body, where shall we place original sin. Answer. original▪ sin, is neither Answer proper to the body, nor to the soul, D. Will●… original sin quest. but is, Hominis peccatum, a sin of the whole man, neither the body must be respected alone, nor the soul alone, but as they do jointly make one man, and so enter into one condition, and are partakers each of others woe, or welfare. CHAP. V. showeth the sensative part of the soul. THe sensative part of the soul is that which is touched with the sense, either of Joy, or grriefe. This joy of the soul cannot be hindered by man, where it is, it is not in ●…ohn 29. 22. ●…sal. 73. 21. man's power to take it away. Ioh. 26. 22. So also, neither can all the comforts in the world; ease a soul that is grieved, except the soul itself be touched with the sense of joy. This joy or grief, doth arise in the ●…he cause ●…f joy ●…r grief. soul: First, from the sense of its present condition: Secondly, In respect of its future expectation. 1. From the sense of the present condition of the soul, doth arise either joy or grief; Thus: The soul of man doth either rejoice Pet. 1. 1. 10. 26. 15. (in the sensative part thereof) under some present concived good; or else grieveth under some present conceived evil, & that may be, when the Imagination of the soul, being fixed on Deut. 31. 12 Ro●…. 2. 15. something which it hath or wanteth, the judgement doth either like or detest it, and so accordingly, doth rejoice or grieve in the enjoying, or want thereof. As for example. A man that is Rich, imagineth 1 Example. with himself what good is in Riches, if the judgement liketh that estate which he enjoys? then is his soul joyful in the enjoying thereof, for the present. Again, A man whose mind is on 2 Example. pleasure: the judgement liketh it, and therefore rejoyseth in enjoying it, and grieveth, in being abridged from it▪ Again, A man whose imaginations 3 Example. are towards God, the judgement being clear, and seeing the good that is in God, the soul doth rejoice to worship him and is grieved because of sin: but if the imaginations deceive the heart: and the judgement be corrupted, so that he cannot see any sweetness therein, then doth God's worship become a burden to the soul. 2. This joy or grief doth arise in Psal. 32. 10. the soul from the sense of its future expectation. When the mind is set on 1 Tim. 6. 19 something that shall befall man, the Imagination conceiveth it either to be good or evil and thereupon doth either fear it, or with hope desire it, which breedeth either joy, or grie●… in the soul. As when the mind is set on Jesus 1 Example. Christ, desiring salvation through him, the Imagination conceiveth it to be good or evil, so to do and accordingly as we mind created comforts, or 〈◊〉 ourselves on Christ as our chiefest good, so fear doth grieve, or hope rejoice our souls. A man that seeketh felicity from the 2 Example. creature, if the judgement conceive it to be evil, then though the heart of man be delighted therewith, yet doth not the soul desire it, but is grieved thereat, but if the Imagination conceive it to be good than doth the soul desire it, hope for it, and rejoice in the thought thereof. When the soul 3 Example. desires Christ, apprehending the glory that is in him, here is rejoicing. Hen●… is the soul, (even in this life) delight●… in the hope of its glory in heaven, 〈◊〉 Conclusion. tormented with fear of its horror i●… hell. CHAP. VI. Of the powers of the soul's essence. THe soul of man, being really one B. Alley on the Triaity. praecel. 3. thing, hath three powers, Memoriam, Int●…llectum, & Voluntatem: memory, understanding, and will, which three make one essent all soul, but in property, they are distinct: For the property of the memory, as to remember; the understrnding to perceive, and understand: The will to choose; out of the memory springeth intelligence, and out of both, the will. Herein the soul may appear to be created after the Image of God, because the Deity hath three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, which three constitute one essential God, yet every person hath this property. From the Father, cometh the Son, and from both the Holy Ghost. CHAP. VII. Treateth of the faculties of the soul. THe faculties of the soul are those inward gifts, which God hath framed in it, for the help of itself? As the Lord hath given the body members; so hath he given the soul faculties. With the Judement we allow or disallow; With the understanding Acts. 8. 33. Iob. 23. 2 Cor. 7. 15. Isa. 26. 8. we perceive and apprehend. With the Affection we love and delight in things. The desire seeketh and waiteth for what it doth effect▪ Math. 18. 14. 2 Cor. 7. 7. with the Will we choose to follow what we desire: With the mind we are servant in seeking what we choose. By the memory we retain in mind, etc 1 Cor. 1 5 2 Isa. 59 8. The judgement being rightly informed we walk in peace, and serve God with comfort, but when the judgement is corrupted: all joy is gone. The understanding being enlightened, 2 Pet 2. 12, 13, 14. we abhor sin, but when the understanding is darkened, we are beguiled with sin. The Affection being set upon a good Collo. 3. 2, 3, 6. object, bringeth life; but being set on earthly things makes us in danger of the wrath of God, &c. Thus as the mouth receiving poison; Ephes. 2. 3. The hand receiving a weapon; The feet leading into the sea, &c. Is the way to destroy the body, So to have the Desire, mind, Affection, &c. set on worldly things is the way to destroy Psal. 37. 4 11. 2 Chron. 29. 3. Isa 11 10. 1 Cor. 3. 16 Gall 4. 7. both soul and dody. But being set on God, on heavenly things: they make the soul glorious; The body the temple of the glorious Spirit, and both soul and body, Heir of eternal glory, through Christ Jesus. CHAP. VIII. showeth, that when the body dyeth, the soul neither sleepeth, nor perisheth, but immediately is received either to joy or torment. 1 SOme say, that it is the doctrine Iren●… of heretics, to persuade themselves, that they shall ●…scend into Heaven, and to be enhanced to the sight of Father, before the general resurrection of the dead. Sad. 2. Others do imagine that the soul perisheth, when the body dies. 3. But the Sripture proveth plainly 1 Cor. 13. Luke 23. 43 1 Cor. 15. Eccle. 12. 7. Luke. 16. Policarpus. Eclesia●…▪ hist. l. 4. that the soul being loosed from ihe body, doth forthwith, either ascend to glory, or descend to tormment, not that the soul receiveth the perfection of its estate till the Resurrection, yet doth the soul enjoy either real bliss, or misery, when the body dies, in part, which after the day of resurrection, shall be absolute, both of soul and body. The body indeed dieth, as Paul saith, because of sin, but the soul Rom. 8. 10. dieth not. Rom. 8. CHAP. ix.. showeth that the soul's remain●… where they are sent till the Resurrection. 1 SOme believe that the souls of persons deceased have often times appeared. 2 Others have declared, that Sacrifices, Raba●…s. Ar. Bis. of Magun. Bellarmin. and prayers of the living have much profited the souls of men th●… were dead. 3. The Lord doth forbid to ask, or to seek any truth of the Spirits 〈◊〉 the dead. The Prophets do send 〈◊〉 Deut. 18. Esay 8. from such Oracles, to the Law and Testimony of God's Word. The Evangelists Luk. 16. teach us in the Gospel, th●… those that are dead rise not again i●… apparitions. object. But many, partly by A●… Objection magic, have been raised, as Samuel 1 Sam. 28. 1 Sam. 28. Answ. Chrisostome answereth thi●… Answer. objection very fully. The questio●… On Matth. being asked? What shall we say 〈◊〉 those voices which say, I am such ●… soul: He answers. That voice (sait●… he which speaketh these things) is no●… the soul of any parson departed, but it is the devil, which doth fain these things to deceive the hearers; Such B. Allemi●…el. on apparition. words are to be Counted Old wives tales, and foolish fables of Children, for the soul separate from the body, faith B. Alley, doth not wander in this world, for the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God; and the souls of sinners after their departure are presently carried to their place of torment. object. But the souls of some have objection returned again into their bodies; after departure, and they have lived on earth again, As Lasarus, John. 11. John 11. To this objection, Tertul: makes Answer. answer (saying) Although the power Lib▪ de anima. of God, hath called again certain souls into their bodies: in token of his might and right; This was done in example of the Resurrection, when the power of God, whether by the Prophets, or by Christ, or else by the Apostles, did render souls, then into their bodies: it is declared by the sensible, and sufficient truth, that this is the very form of the truth, that thou Mayst judge every incorporate apparition of the dead to be deceits, & delusions. CHAP. X. Treateth of the inward virtues and faculties of the body. THe inward virtues; and faculties of Galen l. de facultat natural. the body are such which stir up the powers to action: Which are of three sorts. The first, cometh from the brain, p. Low. discourse. and seedeth the sense and moving into all the body through the muscles, and nerves, by motion, which feedeth all the senses, outwardly, and the imagination reason and memory, inwardly. The second carrieth life through all the body; which either dilateth the hart, and arteries, from whence mirt●… and love ariseth, or else doth constrain and bind the arteries, and heart, from whence ariseth, melancholy sadness, and revenge. The third cometh from the liver, and sendeth the nourishment through all the body; which doth 1. attract tha●… which is proper. 2. retain that which is d●…awn. 3. digest that which is retaine●… 〈◊〉 expel that which is hurtful, (as Low saith.) CHAP. XI. Treateth of the vital spiritg of the body. THe substance of the spirits in man's Low p. 2●… body, is the most pure; and thinnest of the blood, which passeth through all the body, to the effect, the members may do their proper actions, abounding most in the heart, arteries, brains, and nerves, which Andrea's d●… lortaine. are of three sorts. The first rem●…ineth in the brain, which passeth from thence to the ears & other parts, but chiefly to the eyes: Therefore these who are ●…linde have their other virtues more strong. Democritus, and other philosephers have pu●… out their eyes, to the end their understrnding might be more clear. The second is that which is in the heart, and Arteries; and is made of the evaporations of the blood, and of the air, laboured in the lig●…s, by the force of vital heat, and thereafter is diffused through the members, for the Conservation of the natural heat. The third is that which is engendered in the liver, and veins, and there remaineth, while theliver maketh the blood; and other natural operations. The use of it is, to help the conconcoction; As saith low. CHAP. XII. Treateth of the perturbations, and passions of the minds. THe mind being governed by reason, Aristole. is preserved from extremity in passion. But being without reason, such passions, and perturbations, do●… arise, which bringeth great mutations, into the natural heat, in so much that (as some have written) many Hipocrates. Epist. 6. Galen. 2. de sum. caus. c. 5. method. ●…. H●…nricus Ranzaurus, de cons. Vale●…ud. die by the passions, and perturbations of the mind. This is caused when the passions of the midne, doth either dilate, or comprimce the heart, for the vital spirits, and cast forth, by the great dilation of the heart, as also retained by the great Compression thereof. As for example: Joy, Hope, Love, Example. &c. These being out of reason, do (through the passion of the mind) so dilate the heart: that they cast forth the spirits. And sadness, fear, envy, &c. do recall the vital spirits inwardly, to the centre of the body, whence many times ensueth death. CHAP. XII. Treateth of the particular passions of the mind. THe particular passions of the mind are many: but chiefly these, Mirth, sadness, Fear, anger, shamefastness, Envy, Hatred, Hope, Love, &c. I. Mirth, or Joy, is an affection of the mind, of a thing good, and pleasant, by the which the blood, and spirits are pleasantly spread, for the present, by the dilation of the heart, but if it be great, and last any long space, death often ensueth, because the heart is altogether destitute of blood. As a Aristole reporteth such a woman so died. Pollicritia b A writer of plays, who because he overcame one in dispute fell in to such an extratordinary joy, that he died with the passion thereof! V●…lerius Maximus, writeth of two women, Chilon, and Diogora, who died for joy, for th●… the happy return of their sons from the wars, who had overcome their enemies, lib. 9 chap. 12. Gallius reporteth of one Diogoras, who when he did see his 3. some crowned at Olympus, for their virtue, died for joy, embracing them in the presence of the whole people. Phillipedes, and many others, who have died through extremity of joy. 2. Sadness is an affection, that doth Hen. Ram. de consualetud. revoke the natural heat inwardly, to the centre of the body; which in time presseth the heart, and drieth up the body: hindereth the government of the spirit vital: which is sometimes so weakne●…, that it is not able to go with the blood, through the rest of the body, so wasteth the body, in such sort, that it becometh attrified, and We have many examples, hereof daily. Cornelius Agrippa de ●…accul. philosilius c 63. lean, whereupon death often ensueth. 3. Fear, is a motion which revoketh the spirits to the heart the centre of the body; whereby the natural heat, is suffocated, causing trembling, which sometimes causeth many women to that are with child fall in labour: sometimes * Divers learned men do affitme, that men have grown white in 25. years, only by the apprehension, and fear of death. Antonius Beneven. writeth, of a body that dyeth for fear, by seeing a vision, as he thought, of two men, clad in black, when he was going to school, the which boy, through the extreme passion of fear, died eight days after about the same time, De abditis mor. causis. through fear, death ensueth to men, or women. 4. Anger is a sudden revocation or Or an ardent heat, or ebullation of blood, in the heart, with desire of of revenge. calling back of the spirits, to the external parts, with an appetite of revenge. It inflameth the whole habitude of the body, the spirits and blood are troubled, as also the brains, it bindeth the heart, and lights. Whereof Dangerous sicknesses are often caused, and sometimes death ensueth. 5. Shamefastness is a motion whereby one knoweth, or suspecteth some notice to be taken of one for the same fault; for which he would be be angry with himself. In this passion, the blood first returneth Pliny telleth that one Diodorus, Profesor of Dialectick●…, having ●…●…uestion propounded unto him, and not answering as he should, died for shame. Valer●…us Maximus reporteth, that Homer died for ●…ame because he could not answer a question propounded to him by ce●…ain Fishers. in (saith Haly Abbas) and suddenly cometh out again, which maketh the Cheeks often very red lib. 5. Of this passion some dy●…: As Diod●…; Homer, and others. 6. Envy is a heavy oppression of the heart, angry at some conceived good thing an other doth enjoy. 7. Hatred is an old malicious habitude, bred of anger, by the which the heart would revenge the injury. 8. Hope is a motion by the which the heart desireth the good ●…ure, it openeth and dilateth the heart 9 Love is a fervent motion, by the which the heart desireth 〈◊〉, and endeavoureth to draw unto it, a conceived good, assuredly, and apparently (as Low saith.) lowe. CHAP XIV. showeth how the faculties of the soul, are distinguished from the faculties of the mind. THe soul is not of any corporal Rom. 8. substance, but spiritual, as hath been showed before; therefore the pure faculties of the soul must needs be spiritual also. The faculties of the mind of the Not the mind which is of the faculty of the soul, but that which is of the body. internal part of the body of man, is of a natural disposition, as the body itself is; whole greatest & chiefest guide is at the highest, but reason. Therefore as God that is spiritual, is infinitely more glorious in his divine essence, then can be conceived in Luke 5. 21. 1. Cor. 2. ●…. Vers. 9 man's reason; so is the faculties of the soul of a far higher nature than the faculties of the mind can reach. That of the soul is spiritual, that of the mind is carnal. Rom 8. ●…. CHAP. XV. showeth, how the flesh is led by the spirit, or the spirit by the flesh. When all the faculties of the soul, Rom. 8. 5. and all the powers of the body, do mind fleshly things; then is the soulled by the flesh; but when all the faculties of the mind are set on spiritual things, then are the powers of the flesh led by the spirit. As for example; Example. If the devil present a man with some object of sin, as Lust, covetousness, Pride, envy, murder, ●…tc. If the love hereof be so great and earnest that this man runs headlong to the act hereof without consideration; then doth he so bind the faculties of the soul, that he captivates them under the bondage of the flesh; but if he resist these sins to which he is enticed, by advising and deeply considering in his soul the evil thereof, then is the flesh overcome, and led by the spirit. These combats between the flesh Gal. 5. 17. 2 Cor. 10. and the spirit are dive as; but according to the love or hatred we ●…ear to the thing about which we strive, so will the mind be affected or disaffected therewith, and advance the prosecution thereof accordingly, whither it be ●…les aly or spiritual. When a man doth apprehend something Example. in his thoughts, being moved thereto either by outward sense, or inward motion, when the will is ready presently either to choose or refuse it; this ariseth from the flesh; but when the understanding brings it first to the judgement, and comparing it with the role of God's word, without any affection ●…o the thing, other than the Word doth approve, or disapprove thereof; and so doth will, desire, and seek after it; this is of the spirit. CHAP. XVI. Treateth of the Resurrection of the Body. IT is to be understood, that there is 1 Cor. 15. 44 a natural body, and there is a spiritual body, as Paul saith: The natural body is the first, which we haveby generation from our parents; The 〈…〉 spiritual body, is that which is la●… 〈◊〉 so by Christ▪ 〈◊〉 when we are first estated in grace in this world; but the bodies of the e●…ect shall be ma●…e 〈…〉 so when they ●…scend into heaven; for this corruptible body of flesh and blood, cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. When 〈…〉 the elect die, their natural bodies are as seed ●…wn in the ground, but at the resurrection they shall be raised in their spiritual bo●…es, without 〈◊〉 imperfections or any deformity▪ they shall hav●… their sen●… made pure, and be rais●…d with an heavenly and spiritual bod●…; c●…pable of inheriting heaven, and ●…ith Christ shall as●…d to i●…mortal joy to all Eternity. Every De civitate Dei, lib 〈…〉 part that is in 〈◊〉 body o●… God's Elect, shall r●…se without all deformity 〈◊〉 superfluity wha●…soever, as Augustine saith; That the 〈◊〉 so often 〈◊〉, and the 〈◊〉 so often paired, shall not with deformity come again ●…o their places, when the body riseth at the day of judgement; and where the Lord saith Luk. 21.18 , one hair of our head shall not p●…sh, Math. 10. 3●… it is not s●…oken of the length of our hairs, but of the number of them; for all the hairs of our head are numbered. The age and quantity of the bodies, when they shall rise again, saith 〈…〉 Austin, shall be in that measure, in the measure of perfect state of youth, even in the measure of the age of the ful●…sse of Christ; that is, the age to which Christ came; All shall rise again (as the 〈◊〉 have written) Master of 〈◊〉 in the age in which Christ died and rose again, in 〈◊〉 ●…oever they die. CHAP. XVII. 〈◊〉 of Hell. HEll signifieth a Pit, a grave, B. Alle●… 〈◊〉 on Hell death it se●…, the sta●…e of the dead, hell, and the place of the damned spirits. 1. Hell signifieth a grave, Jonah. 3 having relation to the body. 2. Hell signifieth the horrible Psal. 11●… James 3. ●… dismaying of the mind, and feeling of the wrath of God; with a taste (as it were) of the feeling of the infernal pains for sin, having relation to the mind. 3. Hell signifieth the place of the Psal. 4. 17. Math. 10. 28 damned spirits, having relation to soul and body. Concerning the local place of the Luk. 10. 15. Pro▪ 27. 20▪ Mark. 8. 12. damned, it is far from heaven; a place where is nothing but horror and misery, but whether it be on the earth, in the earth, in the air, or any Objction. other place, it is not revealed; therefore I shall answer with Socrates, who Socrates. being demanded of a certain person▪ what was done in hell? deri●…ing the curiosity of the question, he answered, that he never went thither, nor communed with any that returned from thence. CHAP. XVIII. Treateth of Heaven. THe scholastical Divines do say, that Heaven is taken three manner B. Awl▪ Misc. coeli. of ways; 1. It signifieth those things that be under the soul. 2. Those things that be in the soul. 3. Those things that be above the soul. 1. Those things that be under the soul, are such things as the corporal eyes behold beyond, or above the faculty of nature; that is to be alienated from the corporal senses: As 〈◊〉 was when he saw theDan ▪ 5 ▪ ●…and writing upon the wall. This is the first Heaven. 2. Those things that be in the soul, are such things as cause the soul to be list up, and taken by imagination or spirit, to know or see any thing supernaturally; As Peter was wrapped Act. 10. and taken, when he saw the sheet sent sent down from heaven. This is to be wrapped and taken unto the second Heaven. 3 Those things that be above the soul, are such things as are intelligible; and the nature of them not to be understod, by any sense or fantasy, when they are, or have been seen, and thus Paul was rapt, and taken unto the 2 Cor. ●…2. 2. third heaven, because he was so alienated from his senses, and so inhansed above all corporal th●…ngs and visions, that he saw things Intelligible, simply, purely and plainly, even after that manner as the Angels, and the souls separated from the body do see, 〈◊〉 (that which is more) did see God by Essence, as Austin doth expressly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 1●… write: to avoid curiosity. In a word (and so to conclude) Christ saith to 〈◊〉. 14. his Disciples; Let not your hearts be troubled: ye believe in God, believe, also in ●…e, in my father's house are many dwelling places, if it were not so, I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you; and though I go to prepare a place for you I will come again, & receive you unto myself, that where I am there may ye be also. Therefore instead of curios●…y, let us rather labour to be Christ's Disciples, that these promises may belong to us, that so we may not be too curious to search for the shadow, but may find Christ Jesus the Life, the Truth, and the Way: and by him salvation. To whom with the Father, and the holy Ghost, be all honour, and glory fo●… ever, Amen. FINIS▪