A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

And now, that this particular of immortality may farther redound both¹ to the Honour and comfort of Man, I must fall upon a short digression touching mans Body: wherein I intend not to meddle with the Question, How mans Body may be said to be made after the Image of God (which sure is not any otherwise, than as it is a sanctified and shall be a Blessed Vessel, but not as some have conceited, as if it were in Creation Imago Christi futuri, nec Dei opus tantum, sed & Pignus: As if Christ had been the pattern of our Honour, and not we of his Infirmity, since the Scripture saith, He was made like unto us in all things, and that he Assumed our Nature, but never that we were, but that we shall be like unto him) not, I say, to meddle with this, I will only briefly consider the Dignity thereof in the particular of immortality, both in the first structure, and in the last Resurrection of it. The Creation of our Bodies, and the Redemption of our Bodies, as the Apostle calls it. What Immunity was at first given, and what Honour shall at last be restored to it. In which latter sense it shall certainly be Secundum Imaginem, after his Image, ⟨p. 421⟩who was Primitiae the First fruits of them that rise. That as in his Humility his Glory was hid in our Mortality, so in our Exaltation our Mortality shall be swallowed up of his Glory. And for the first estate of Mans Body, we conclude in a word: that it was partly Mortal, and partly Immortal: Mortal in regard of possibility of Dying, because it was affected with the mutual Action and Passion of corruptible elements: for which reason it stood in need of reparation and recovery of it self by food, as being still Corpus Animal, and not Spiritual, as St. Paul distinguisheth, a Natural, but not a Spiritual Body. But it was Immortal, that is, Exempted from the Law of Death and Dissolution of the Elements, in virtue of Gods Covenant with man, upon condition² of his Obedience. It was Mortal Conditione Corporis, by the Condition of a Body; but immortal Beneficio Conditoris, by the Benefit of its Creation; else God had planted in the Soul such natural desires of a Body wherein to work as could not be naturally attained; For the Soul did naturally desire to remain still in the body. In the natural Body of Adam there was no sin, and therefore no death, which is the wages of sin.