Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

2. A man must give up the Ghost, tho' he be never so loth to do it; he would not die, but he must; thou must at last give over hoping; though thou keep this hope till thou diest, yet then thou shalt hope no more; it is as impossible for you to keep these hopes forever, as it is for you to live upon earth forever.

3. A man that gives up the Ghost, by all the power on earth cannot be called to life again. When thy Soul and Body part, then thy soul and hope shall part, and thou shalt lose both hope and soul together. The ⟨p. 127⟩parting of the Soul and Body is a sad parting, but the parting of the soul and hope is a sadder parting; and when thy soul hath parted with its hopes at death, hope shall never return again; thy Soul parted from thy body shall return to it again, but not thy hope unto thy soul; thy body falls and shall rise again, but there shall never be a resurrection of thy hope.

Some translate these words thus, And their hopes shall perish at the expiration of the soul. The sinner shall breathe out his soul and hope at once. These words [The giving up of the Ghost] are but two words in the Hebrew Text; and the one signifies not only the soul, but also the breath, or a puff of wind, and the other, signifieth to blow, which imports, that the hope of wicked men, the Devil's Captives, shall be but as a puff of wind, or as the blast of a man's mouth: and one of the words doth signify sometimes to grieve and to be sad; so the hope of these Captives shall end in sorrow and sadness; it shall make him sad, to puff and blow, that he trusted for such great and weighty things as Heaven and Salvation upon such slight and slender grounds. Again, the Hebrew Word hath another signification, to despise, and loath, and nauseate a thing; this may teach us, that though