carkasse to life again, and continue him alive for
Ever, or make him die again, by another Word?
The Soule in Scripture, signifieth alwaies, either
the Life, or the Living Creature; and the Body and
Soule jointly, the Body Alive. In the fift day
of the Creation, God said, Let the water produce Reptile
Animae Viventis, the creeping thing that hath in it
a Living Soule; the English translate it, “that
hath Life:” And again, God created Whales,
“& omnem animam viventem;” which in the
English is, “every living Creature:”
And likewise of Man, God made him of the dust of
the earth, and breathed in his face the breath of Life,
“& factus est Homo in animam viventem,”
that is, “and Man was made a Living Creature;”
And after Noah came out of the Arke, God saith, hee
will no more smite “omnem animam viventem,”
that is “every Living Creature;” And Deut.
12.23. “Eate not the Bloud, for the Bloud
is the Soule;” that is “the Life.”
From which places, if by Soule were meant a Substance
Incorporeall, with an existence separated from the
Body, it might as well be inferred of any other living
Creature, as of Man. But that the Souls of the
Faithfull, are not of their own Nature, but by Gods
speciall Grace, to remaine in their bodies, from the
Resurrection to all Eternity, I have already I think
sufficiently proved out of the Scriptures, in the
38. Chapter. And for the places of the New
Testament, where it is said that any man shall be
cast Body and Soul into Hell fire, it is no more than
Body and Life; that is to say, they shall be cast
alive into the perpetuall fire of Gehenna.
As The Doctrine Of Purgatory, And Exorcismes, And
Invocation Of Saints This window it is, that gives
entrance to the Dark Doctrine, first, of Eternall
Torments; and afterwards of Purgatory, and consequently
of the walking abroad, especially in places Consecrated,
Solitary, or Dark, of the Ghosts of men deceased;
and thereby to the pretences of Exorcisme and Conjuration
of Phantasmes; as also of Invocation of men dead;
and to the Doctrine of Indulgences; that is to say,
of exemption for a time, or for ever, from the fire
of Purgatory, wherein these Incorporeall Substances
are pretended by burning to be cleansed, and made fit
for Heaven. For men being generally possessed
before the time of our Saviour, by contagion of the
Daemonology of the Greeks, of an opinion, that the
Souls of men were substances distinct from their Bodies,
and therefore that when the Body was dead, the Soule
of every man, whether godly, or wicked, must subsist
somewhere by vertue of its own nature, without acknowledging
therein any supernaturall gift of Gods; the Doctors
of the Church doubted a long time, what was the place,
which they were to abide in, till they should be re-united
to their Bodies in the Resurrection; supposing for
a while, they lay under the Altars: but afterward
the Church of Rome found it more profitable, to build
for them this place of Purgatory; which by some other
Churches in this later age, has been demolished.