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The greatness of the soul and unspeakableness of the loss thereof with the causes…
The greatness of the soul and unspeakableness of the loss thereof with the causes of the losing it : first preached at Pinners-Hall, and now enlarged and published for good / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Richard Wilde, 1691
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But I say, What is Man, without this Soul, or swherein lieth his preeminence over a Beast? no where that I know of. For both (as to Man's Body) go to one place, only the Spirit or Soul of a Man goes upward, to wit, to God that gave it, to be by him disposed of with respect to things to come, as they have been and have done in this life. But,
2. I come in the next place tto describe the Soul by its Senses, its spiritual Senses, for so I call them: for as the Body hath Senses pertaining to it, and a• it can see, hear, smell, feel and taste, so can the Soul; I call therefore these the Senses of the Soul, in opposition to the Senses of the Body, and because the Soul is the Seat of all spiritual Sense, where supernatural things are known and enjoyed; not that the Soul of a natural Man is spiritual in the Apostles sense, for so none are, but those that are born from ⟨p. 16⟩above, nor uthey so always neither. But to go forward.
2. I come in the next place tto describe the Soul by its Senses, its spiritual Senses, for so I call them: for as the Body hath Senses partaining to it, and a• it can see, hear, smell, feel and taste, so can the Soul; I call therefore these the Senses of the Soul, in opposition to the Senses of the Body, and because the Soul is the Seat of all spiritual Sense, where supernatural things are known and enjoyed; not that the Soul of a natural Man is spiritual in the Apostles sense, for so none are, but those that are born from