The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises

8. In death the soul is delivered ¹out of prison: For the body in this life is but a loathsome and dark prison of restraint. I say, the soul is restrained, as it were in a prison, while it is in the body, because it cannot be free to the exercise of it self either in natural or supernatural things: For the body so rules by senses, and it is so fiercely carried by appetites, that the soul is compelled to give a way to the satisfying of the body, and cannot freely follow the light either of Nature or Religion: The truth, as the Apostle saith, is with-held or shut up, through ⟨p. 677⟩unrighteousness, Romans 1. 28. I say, it is a loathsome prison, because the soul is annoyed with so many loathsome smells of sin and filthiness, which by the body are committed. And it is a dark prison; For the soul looking through the body, can see but by little holes, or small casements. The body shuts up the light of the soul, as a dark Cloud doth hide the light of the Sun; or as the interposition of the earth doth make it night. Now death doth nothing, but as it were a strong wind, dissolve this cloud, that the Sun may shine clearly, and pulls down the walls of the prison, that the soul may come into the open light.

8. In death the soule is deliuered ¹out of prison: For the body in this life is but a loathsome and darke prison of restraint. I say, the soule is restrained, as it were in a prison, while it is in the body, because it cannot bee free to the exercise of it selfe either in naturall or supernaturall things: For the body so rules by senses, and it is so fiercely carried by appetites, that the soule is compelled to giue a way to the satisfying of the body, and cannot freely follow the light either of Nature or Religion: The truth, as the Apostle saith, is with-held or shut vp, through ⟨p. 677⟩vnrighteousnesse, Romanes 1. 28. I say, it is a loathsome prison, because the soule is annoyed with so many loathsome smels of sin and filthinesse, which by the body are committed. And it is a darke prison; For the soule looking through the bodie, can see but by little holes, or small casements. The body shuts vp the light of the soule, as a darke Cloud doth hide the light of the Sunne; or as the interposition of the earth doth make it night. Now death doth nothing, but as it were a strong wind, dissolue this cloud, that the Sunne may shine clearely, and puls downe the walles of the prison, that the soule may come into the open light.