The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…

One in substance like the Sun, yet of divers operations. It is confined in the body, not refined by the body, but is often most active, when her layler is most dull. She is a careful house-wife, disposing all well at home; conserving all forms, and mustering them to her own serviceable use. The senses discern the out-side, the circumstance, the husk of things: she the inside, the virtue, the marrow; resolving effects into causes; compounding, comparing, contemplating things in their highest sublimity. Fire turns coals into fire: the body concocts meat into blood; but the soul converts body into spirits; reducing their purest forms within her dimensive lines. In mans composition there is a shadow of the Trinity. For to make up one man, there is an elementary body, a divine soul, and a firmamental spirit. Here is the difference: In God there are three persons in one essence, in us three essences in one person. So in the Soul there is a trinity of powers, vegetable, sensitive, rational: ⟨p. 321⟩the former would only be; the second be, and be well; the third be, be well, and before ever well. O excellent nature, in whose cabinet ten thousand forms may sit at once; which gives agitation to the body, without whom it would fall down a dead and inanimate lump of clay. This Soul shall be required.

One in substance like the Sunne, yet of diuers operations. It is confined in the body, not refined by the body, but is often most actiue, when her layler is most dull. Shee is a carefull hous-wife, disposing all well at home; conseruing all formes, and mustring them to her owne seruiceable vse. The senses discerne the out-side, the circumstance, the huske of things: she the inside, the vertue, the marrow; resoluing effects into causes; compounding, comparing, contemplating things in their highest sublimity. Fire turnes coales into fire: the body concocts meat into bloud; but the soule conuerts body into spirits; reducing their purest formes within her dimensiue lines. In mans composition there is a shadow of the Trinity. For to make vp one man, there is an elementary body, a diuine soule, and a firmamentall spirit. Here is the difference: In God there are three persons in one essence, in vs three essences in one person. So in the Soule there is a trinity of powers, vegetable, sensitiue, rationall: ⟨p. 321⟩the former would onely be; the second be, and be well; the third be, be well, and befor euer well. O excellent nature, in whose cabinet ten thousand formes may sit at once; which giues agitation to the body, without whom it would fall downe a dead and inanimate lumpe of clay. This Soule shall be required.