A child of light walking in darknessA childe of light vvalking in darknesse

and withal, what correspondency and intercourse there is between these; how sin and all our actions pass through them from the one to the other, even as blood and spirits do through the veins and arteries, in all the parts from each to other. And as in the body, there are several regions (as Anatomists call them) divided by partitions: the vital parts in the upper loft next the neck, in which are lodged the heart, and lungs: The natural parts in that lower, and these divided by the midriff, as by a floor between them: so in the soul, (to which haply Solomon alludes, when Prov. 19. 27. he calls the several powers of it, The Chambers of the belly, as some read it.) there is the sensual part of the affections, The soul, &c. which is as it were in a distinct room from that more sublime & spiritual part, the spirit. And as the spirit of man, that is, the conscience and understanding of a man, searcheth all those chambers, (as tis there,) that is, Knows what is in man; as the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 2. 11. (which yet when it doth so, it is not by an innate light, but with Gods candle, as Solomons expression there is: that is, by the word and the light thereof set up by him in it.) So ⟨p. 84⟩here, the word, under another similitude, namely, of a sword, is said to cut up, and to discover all within those several regions. And in the Spirit, it is said to discover what can be imagined, most retired and withdrawn, and so locked up, as no eye could find it out, which he expresseth by mentioning such parts, as are most inwardly seated of all other: the marrow, which we know is enclosed within the bones: and the joints, or ligaments, by which the joints are knit, and move; these it unbars, and discovers also. Both which he interprets in the next words, [and is a discoverer of the thoughts, and intentions of the heart,] which are a more plain interpretation of what he had expressed by those two metaphors. The utmost intention and end, in all our actions, that is as the marrow, because as the marrow gives moisture to the bones, so by these our ends all our purposes and resolutions (by which we are supported in all our actions) are strengthened and confirmed:

and withall, what correspondency and entercourse there is betweene these; how sin and all our actions passe through them from the one to the other, even as bloud and spirits doe through the veines and arteries, in all the parts frō each to other. And as in the body, there are severall regions (as Anatomists call them) divided by partitions: the vitall parts in the upper loft next the neck, in which are lodged the heart, and lungs: The naturall parts in that lower, and these divided by the midriffe, as by a floore betweene them: so in the soule, (to which haply Solomon alludes, when