Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

1. By their general disposition, they are dead in trespasses and sins. Dead, and therefore unable and indisposed to the works of a spiritual living man: Besides, not only indisposed and unable thereto, but dead in trespasses and sins. For the separation of the Soul from God, is a more dangerous death, than the separation of the Soul from the Body, and this is the reason, why St. John calls, damnation the second death. Rev. 20.14. reckoning (in comparison) the natural death for none. Accordingly also speaketh the learned Patriarch of Alexandria, St. Cyril. Tom. 6. p. 415. [Greek or Hebrew] ⟨p. 26⟩[Greek or Hebrew]. That is not properly death, which separateth Soul from the body, but that which separateth God from the Soul. God is the life of the Soul, but he that is separated from life, is dead, being deprived of alacrity and cheerfulness, as of life. He lies rotting in his own filth, like a rotten carcass, and stinking carrion in the nostrils of the Almighty, so loathsome is he: all which is drawn from Original sin. Not only dis-enabled to any good, but prone to all sin and iniquity.

1. By their general disposi•ion, they are dead in trespasses and sins. Dead, and therefore unable and indisposed to the works of a spiritual living man: Besides, not onely indisposed and unable thereto, but dead in trespasses and sins. For the separation of the Soul from God, is a more dangerous death, than the separation of the Soul from the Body, and this is the reason, why St. John calls, damnation the second death. Rev. 20.14. reckoning (in comparison) the naturall death for none. Accordingly also speaketh the learned Patriarch of Alexandria, St. Cyril. Tom. 6. p. 415. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ⟨p. 26⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉. That is not properly death, which separateth Soul from the body, but that which separateth God from the Soul. God is the life of the Soul, but he that is separated from life, is dead, being deprived of alacrity and cheerfulness, as of life. He lies rotting in his own filth, like a rotten carkass, and stinking carrion in the nostrils of the Almighty, so loathsome is he: all which is drawn from Original sin. Not onely dis-enabled to any good, but prone to all sin and iniquity.