and fupporting us an Idea, ha communicated 1 nifm in this Flui to give us Ideas municating this porting it, becauf Object for Ideas. But as Ideas o Perfons, because Actions, Strengt from this Fluid: and as one of th ded third Part called Spirit with the Light, Part is the Life ture; and as th into that Frame fufing a Part o that Part or Pai Action is called the Word Spiri Idea S uncre the ed, join us an ! before me, and the So I Thef. v. 23. ul, and qux Body. rrowed from Man ive us a borrowed ns of God upon ing, which is ate other of giving w, Job ed to God made me; ty gave me Life. t be defcribed by e no Idea of of a Halitus, the eart, is used as ́ind or Soul; as, ve Jehovah thy +, with all thy Might. 2 King. Serve him with ling Frame. :though the Air hovah Aleim can 3. Jehovah, the s. Pfal. xxxvi. 10. is the Fountain of tfball we fee Light. The Aleim-0" ers.) Jer. 10. x. Jehovah D " 'had done into thofe of Beafts, but was not itself immortal, could not infufe any thing but what was liable to become common Air again.. The Body was not made immortal Indeed there was a Sacrament of that which was to make it immortal, and capable of tranflating its felf: Of which in its Place. What God infufed was qualified to Reafon, and return to be accountable to God, who gave it. That Effence and Capacity of Reafoning, though here only from the Ideas, taken by the Perception of the Body, fhould remain; the Effence fhould not be annihilated, nor as we fpeak of Bodies diffolved not altered: So one Similitude of the Alcim. But as it reafoned from given Ideas, it was liable to be impofed upon by falfe Evidence, and to reafon falfely, and thence err in Action, fo be brought into Uncertainties, how Peace fhould be made, how Happiness obtained, &c. and in that Part the Image of God was defaced, but capable of being reftored. That there was another Similitude of the Aleim will be fhewed when it is made appear that one of them took the Body of Man, and thofe two made the Image of the Aleim This, being fo compounded of a Beaft, and fomething little inferior to an Angel, fo 1 fo united, had in this State of Trial, the effential Properties of each; the Beast was furnished with all the Organs of a Beast, liable to all the Neceffities and Appetites and Accidents of a Beaft; and the other Part, even here, had all the Powers that an Angel has, only as it was united to the material Body, capable of taking its Ideas from it, and not admitted to Perceptions of God, or Things in another, or in the angelick State. But was capable of taking Information by Revelation, or Reprefentations comparatively fo far as was confiftent with a State of Trial, and capable of being tranflated to that State, and of perceiving those Objects, and of reafoning and deducing Knowledge in proportion to the Ob jects, and its Perception there, and of carrying its Body, its Companion, when refined, along with it. So God created Man an Agent capable of acquiring or receiving fufficient Knowledge and Strength in a fhort time after his firft ftarting, though limited in both, free or at liberty to do his Duty, or the contrary. But upon his Behaviour, neither free from Laws here, nor Punishments hereafter; composed of two Parts, Angelick and Corporeal, united; the Angelick fitted with Power for Reasoning, Contemplation, &c. to act like a little God D 3 within within its little Sphere, invifible to any other Being befides the Great God, with Power to confult its felf about what was moft fit to be done, and to move or direct the Motion of the Parts of the little World without vifible Means; and the corporeal Part, endowed with Appetites, or what you please to call that common to Brutes, and with Paffions which flow from thofe Appetites, and are alfo common to Brutes, and fitted with Parts and Organs to procure Neceffaries to keep it in Repair, to generate, to affift one another, &c. and they were to act together under Laws and Reftraints, during their State of Probation. As Words do not convey Ideas, but raife acquired Ideas, 'tis not enough for Satisfaction to a reasonable Creature, that another fhall affirm that God can give Life to Matter, and make it a living Creature, becaufe we fee Creatures live. But before he can have an Idea of it, 'tis neceffary to know that God has alfo adapted the Parts of the Matter in the Creation where it lives, to enable it to live and act, which it would not do, if they were not as they are, or did not act as they do. Our wife Men tell you, in order to prove that we have Souls, that Matter cannot think; they have not yet defined what forts of Matter there are, nor what forts |