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1. Corporal death is the departure of the soul from the body, whereby the body is left dead, without action, motion, sense. For the life of the body, is the union of the soul with it. For which essential dependence, the soul is often called and taken for the ⟨p. 160⟩life. ^oPeter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my soul for thy sake. [Greek or Hebrew], his soul, meaning as it i• translated, his life. And ^pHe that findeth his soul, shall loose it: but he that looseth his soul for my sake, shall find it. Here the Soul is taken for the Life. So that in this death there is the separation of the soul and body, the dissolution of the person, the privation of life, the continuance of death: for there is no possible regress from the privation to the habit, except by the supernatural and miraculous hand of God. This is the first but not the worst death, which sinn• procureth. And though the special dea•nesse of the guests here be spiritual: yet this, which we call natural, may be implied, may be applied: for when God threatened death to Adams sin, in illo die m•ri•ris: in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die; yet Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years after. There was, notwithstanding, no delay, no delusion of Gods decree: for in ipso die, in that very day death took hold on him; and so is the Hebrew phrase, ^qdying, thou shalt dye; fall into a languishing, and incurable consumption, that shall never leave thee, till it bring thee to thy grave. So that he instantly dyed, not by present separation of soul and body, but by mortality, mutability, misery, yea by sorrow and pain, as the instruments and agents of Death. Thus said that Father. ^rAfter a man beginneth to be in this body, (by reason of his sin) he is even in death.