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and ufeth it as ah inftrunient : Iffo be, chat you (hall im- derftand, vvhat , amongft the Platonifts that Etherial Bocjyof the Soiil, and Chariot of the fame may be. Therefore in like manner they place three things in Man, \yhicb f hey call the Supreme, Lovvdl: and Middle. And as we fay the Rulers, Idea's and l-igures, fo the Supreme is that Divine' thing which they call the Mind , or fupe- riour Portion , or illuminated Intelleft. Mofes in Ge- nef's call th it the breath of Jifc^ viz* breath from Gojj, or his Spirit infpired into us. The Loweft is the Ctnfy' ^ive Soul, which they alfo call an mi^ge : St. Paul the Apoftle nameth it, the Animal Man : The Middle is the reafbnable Spirit, knitting and tying together both ck- treams, viz. The Animal Soul with the Minde favosi^ ring of the Nature of both extrear.s, yet it diftereth from that Supreme, which is called the Illuminated In- telleft , the Minde, Light and Supreme Portion : It dificreth alfo from the Animal ^oul, from the which the Apoftle teacheth us, that we ought to fcparate it by the power of the Word of God 5 faying, Jbe Word of God is fovperful and lively^ more penetrating ihcn a trfio^ edged Svpord^Mefchig even to the dividing of the Soul and Sprit : For as that Supreme never fmneth, never conr fenteth to evil, and always relifteth errour, andexhor* teth to the beft thing's: fo that Inferiour Portionand Animal Soul is always overwhelmed In evil, in fin and concupifcence, and draweth to the worft things j of the which St. Paul faith , / fee another Law in my members^ hadijig me Captive to the Law of fin. The Minde there^ fore the Supreme Portion is never damned ; but whe/i its companions ar6 to be puniftied, goeth away unhur| initb its Original : But the Spirit, which by Philo Ju-^ ^ii^j is called the reafonable Soul, feeing it is by its Na* tare free, andean according to hispleafure adhere t^ cither of (hc0i> if i^ conftantly adhere to thcSuperiour
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Portion, is at length united and beaunfted vvith.it, im- jtii it be affumed into God. If it adhere unto the in- feriour Soul, it is depraved and becoi^^es vidous, until it be made a wicked Spirit. But thus much concern- ing the Minde and Spirit. /
Noiv let us fee concerning the fpeech or \vor d; Prince fhroates th\nktt)[\ this of the fame vahie for immor- tality : for fpeech or word is that without which liotfeing is done or can be done ; for it is the exprelTion of theExpreflbr, and the thing exprefled , and the fpca- king of the Speaker 5 and that which fpeaketh is fpc^ch ior word : and the conception of the Conceivcr , and that which conceiveth , is the word ; and the writing of the Writer, and that which writ^th, is the word 5 and the forming of t he iForma*, and that which formeth, is the word ; and the creation of the Creator , and that which createrh, is the word ; and the doing of f he poer, and that which is done^ is the word ; and the knowledge of him that knoweth , and the thing known is the word ; and every thingthat canbe fpoken is but a wordjand it's called quality, for it carrieth its felf equally towards all, feting that it is not one thing more then another, equally bcftowing on all , that they may be that which they are, neither more nor lefs ; and its felf being fenfible, doth inake it felf and all things fenfible , as light ms^keth it felf and all things vifible : therefore the word is calle4 by J)es Cariej , the bright Sun of the Mind : for the Con*^ ception by which the Mind conceiveth it felf, is the in-» (rinfecal word generated from the mind, viz^ the know* ledge of it felf," . ^
'" But the extrinftcaland vocal word, is the off-{pring and maiifcftation of that word, and a fplrit proceeding hwt of the mouth with (c)und and voyce Signifying (bme^ jhing, but every vpyceofours, fpeech and word, uniefs it be formed by the voyce of God ^ is mingled with the