A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors…A short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours…

They allege also this text: put not your trust in men, the spirit of man goeth, and returneth into his earth, and in that day shall perish all their cogitations. They take this word spirit for wind, as though there were none other soul in man. Than do they make their argument. Thus, if mans cogitations do perish, it must follow that the soul doeth sleep, or else that it is nothing I answer, that the spirit of man, doeth signify an other thing than breath, as I have rights well proved before. But were it so, that this word in this place were taken in such a signification, as it is taken in some other places: yet should it not therefore follow that man hath none other soul but breath.

They aledge also thys texte: put not youre truste in men, the spirite of man goethe, and returnethe into hys earthe, and in that daye shall perishe al their cogitations. They take thys worde spirite for wynde, as thoughe ther were none other soule in man. Than do they make their argumēce. Thus, if mannes cogitations do perishe, it muste folowe that the soul doeth slepe, or else that it is nothing I answere, that the spirite of man, doeth signifye an other thynge than breth, as I haue ryghts well proued before. But were it so, that thys worde in thys place were taken in suche a significacion, as it is taken in some other places: yet shoulde it not therefore folowe that man hath none other soule but breth.

Touching that it is said, that the cogitations do perish: that doeth import none other thing, but that the enterprises of men are dissipate by death, and vanish as smoke as it is said in another place, that the desires of sinners shall perish, to signify that they shall not come to there effect Therefore David saith not, that men shall think nothing after there death: but he meaneth that all there deliberations shall come to nothing They allege an other place all most like this: he hath remembered that they are but flesh, a spirit that goeth and returneth not again. Now I grant, that in this place this word spirit doeth signify wind, or breath.

Touchynge that it is sayde, that the cogitacions do perishe: that doeth importe none other thyng, but that the enterprises of men are dissipate by death, and vanishe as smoke as it is sayde in a nother place, that the desires of synners shall perishe, to signifie that they shall not come to ther effecte Therefore Dauid sayth not, that men shal thyncke nothynge after ther death: but he meaneth that all ther delyberacions shall come to nothing They aledge an other place all moste lyke thys: he hath remembered that they are but flesh, a spirit that goeth and retorneth not agayne. Nowe I graunte, that in this place this worde spirite doeth signifie wynde, or breath.