Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

3. I might add the union of Soul and Body. Man is a kind of compound of Angel and Beast, of Soul and body; if he were only a Soul, he were a kind of Angel; if only a body, he were another kind of brute: Now that a body as vile and dull as earth, and a Soul that can mount up to Heaven, and rove about the world with so quick a motion, should be linked in so strait an acquaintance; that so noble a being as the Soul should be an inhabitant in such a Tabernacle of Clay, must be owned to some infinite power that hath so chained it.

3. I might add the union of Soul and Body. Man is a kind of compound of Angel and Beast, of Soul and body; if he were only a Soul, he were a kind of Angel; if only a body, he were another kind of brute: Now that a body as vile and dull as earth, and a Soul that can mount up to Heaven, and rove about the world with so quick a motion, should be linkt in so strait an acquaintance; that so noble a being as the Soul should be an inhabitant in such a Tabernacle of Clay, must be owned to some infinite power that hath so chained it.

3. Man witnesseth to a God in the operations and reflections of Conscience. Rom. 2.15. Their thoughts are accusing or excusing. An inward comfort attends good actions, and an inward torment follows bad ones; for there is in every mans Conscience, fear of punishment and hope of reward: There is therefore a sense of some superior Judge, which hath the power both of rewarding, and punishing: If man were his supreme rule, what need he fear punishment, since no man would inflict any evil or torment on himself; nor can any man be said to reward himself, for all rewards refer to another, to whom the action is pleasing, and is a conferring some good a man had not before: If an action be done by a Subject or Servant, with hopes of reward, it can not be imagined, that he expects a reward from himself, but from the Prince or person whom he eyes in that action, and for whose sake he doth it.

3. Man witnesseth to a God in the operations and reflections of Conscience.