I only contend for this, That the salvation of the soul is intended also of that Salvation which falls out in the midst between these joys (the earnest) in this life, and that ultimate Salvation at the Resurrection, that is the Salvation of the Soul, whilst separate, as being the next. It hath a weight in it, that Salvation and Damnation should so often be said to be of the soul by Christ himself, as Mat. 26. 16. What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World (and so provide for his body) and lose his own Soul? And again, in speaking of the Soul as considered apart from the ⟨p. 293⟩Body, Mat. 10. 28. Fear not them that are able to kill but the body, and are not able to kill the soul. But that which is more conjunct to my purpose; it is observable, that this our Apostle Peter should choose to use in this Epistle, more than any other Apostle, this phrase of [Soul] in relation to Salvation, either as being the eminent subject, and sometimes as the single subject both of Grace and Salvation: So in this Chapter, You have purified your souls, &c. as the immediate susceptive of the incorruptible seed (as was observed.) Then again, in chap. 2. 11. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war [against the Soul] and, 8. 25. Ye are returned to the Bishop of your Souls. Which he speaks as being the eminent part, and (upon separation from the body) the special charge he hath pastoral care of. And more directly to our purpose, ch. 4. last v. he exhorts them when they come to die, to commit their souls to God, as then being to be separate from their bodies. Now it were hard to think that this Salvation to come should bear the title and name of the salvation of the soul in this and other Scriptures; and 1that yet when this Soul shall in the other World come to subsist for a long time single and alone, and then be properly and without figure: A mere soul without a ⟨p. 294⟩body, a lonesome soul: That during that state it should not be the subject of this Salvation, and so intended here, when more properly and literally, if ever, it is the salvation of the Soul. And it would be yet more strange, that the phrase, salvation of the Soul, should be wholly restrained unto that estate of the Soul, when remitted to the body at Resurrection, and only unto that. And that word, the soul, should serve only synecdochically as a part put to signify the whole man, as then it is to be raised up:
I only contend for this, That the salvation of the soul is intended also of that Salvation which falls out in the midst between these joys (the earnest) in this life, and that ultimate Salvation at the Resurrection, that is the Salvation of the Soul, whilst separate, as being the next. It hath a weight in it, that Salvation and Damnation should so often be said to be of the soul by Christ himself, as Mat. 26. 16. What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World (and so provide for his body) and lose his own Soul? And again, in speaking of the Soul as considered apart from the ⟨p. 293⟩Body, Mat. 10. 28. Fear not them that are able to kill but the body, and are not able to kill the soul. But that which is more conjunct to my purpose; it is observable, that this our Apostle Peter should choose to use in this Epistle, more than any other Apostle, this phrase of [Soul] in relation to Salvation, either as being the eminent subject, and sometimes as the single subject both of Grace and Salvation: So in this Chapter, You have purified your souls, &c. as the immediate susceptive of the incorruptible seed (as was observed.) Then again, in chap. 2. 11. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war [against the Soul] and, 8. 25. Ye are returned to the Bishop of your Souls. Which he speaks as being the eminent part, and (upon separation from the body) the special charge he hath pastoral care of. And more directly to our purpose, ch. 4. last v. he exhorts them when they come to die, to commit their souls to God, as then being to be separate from their bodies. Now it were hard to think that this Salvation to come should bear the title and name of the salvation of the soul in this and other Scriptures; and 1that yet when this Soul shall in the other World come to subsist for a long time single and alone, and then be properly and without figure: A meer soul without a ⟨p. 294⟩body, a lonesome soul: That during that state it should not be the subject of this Salvation, and so intended here, when more properly and literally, if ever, it is the salvation of the Soul. And it would be yet more strange, that the phrase, salvation of the Soul, should be wholy restrained unto that estate of the Soul, when remitted to the body at Resurrection, and onely unto that. And that word, the soul, should serve onely synecdochically as a part put to signifie the whole man, as then it is to be raised up:
- 1Heb. 10. v. last. Jam. 5. v. last.
