Book II.

That privilege therefore ought no lefs to belong to the inward man, as he is a fpirit, if he ought to reprefent the image of God, and that indeed not an idle one ; if we call this faculty magical, and thou being badly intruded, art terrified at this word, thou mayefl:, for me, call it a fpiritual flrength or effica- cy: for, truly, we are nothing folicitous about names. I always, as imme- diately as I can, caft an eye upon the thing itfelf.
'I hat magical power, therefore, is in the inward man, whether thou, by this etymology, or true word, underhanded: the foul or the vital fpirit thereof, it is now indifferent to us ; fince there is a certain proportion of the internal man to- wards the external in all things, glowing or growing after its own manner, which is an appropriated difpolition, and proportioned property.
Wherefore the power or faculty mull: needs be dilperfed throughout the whole man ; in the foul, indeed, more vigorous, but in the flefh and blood far more remifs.
CHAP. VII.
OF THE VITAL SPIRIT, &C.
THE vital fpirit in the flefh and blood performs the office of the foul ; that is, it is the fame fpirit in the outward man, which, in the feed, forms the whole figure, that magnificent ftrudure and perfed delineation of man, and which hath known the ends of things to be done, becaufe it contains them ; and the which, as prefident, accompanies the new framed young, even unto the period of its life and the which, although it depart therewith, fome fmacks or finall quantity, at leaf!, thereof remains in a carcafs flain by violence, being as it were molt exadly co-fermented with the fame. But, from a dead carcafs that was extind of its own accord, and from nature failing, as well the implanted as inflowing fpirit pafled forth at once.
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