2. The Soul of man hath not dependan•• upon the Body, as to its Being and Existence. It hath certain actings and operations which do not depend upon the Body, and if the operations of the Soul be independent ⟨p. 24⟩from the Body, such must the principle be from whence such operations do arise: and if it can act without dependence on the Body, then it can exist, and be without the Body, In the Body with •ut dependence on the Body; it hath the knowledge of immaterial Beings as God and Angles, which were never seen by the eye of the Body, nor can, because there must be some proportion between the object and the faculty; and the Soul doth know it fells, wherein it hath no need of the fantasy, for when it is intimately present to it self, it wanteth not the ministry of the fantasy to its own intellection. Besides it can conceive of universals, abstracted from its singulars, in which it doth not depend upon the fantasy, for phantasmata sunt singulaeium, non universalium; therefore since it can act in the Body without dependence on the Body, it can exist without the Body, and not dye when the Body doth; which yet is more plain and certain from the Scripture; which relleth us that the Soul of Lazarus, after death, was carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom, Luk. 16.22. but they did not ⟨p. 27⟩carry it dead or alive, but alive, and not dead. Stephen when dying expected the continuance of his Soul in being, and its entrance into Bliss. Act. 7.59. saying, Lord Jesus receive my Spirit. The Thief upon the Cross had a promise from Christ, that that day he should be with him in Paradise: in his body he is not yet, therefore in his Soul without the Body; therefore the Soul doth exist without the Body. Paul believed the immortality of his Soul, and its existence after the death of his Body. Phil. 1.23. I am in a strait, having a desire to depart, & to be with Christ, which is far better. If his Soul had not existed, he had not been a moment sooner with Christ, nay, his Soul in the Body had some Communion with Christ, if it dyed with the Body, it had none, and that was not far better but worse.
2. The Soul of man hath not dependan•• upon the Body, as to its Being and Existence. It hath certain actings and operations which do not depend upon the Body, and if the operations of the Soul be independent ⟨p. 24⟩from the Body, such must the principle be from whence such operations do arise: and if it can act without dependance on the Body, then it can exist, and be without the Body, In the Body with •ut dependance on the Body; it hath the knowledge of immaterial Beings as God and Angles, which were never seen by the eye of the Body, nor can, because there must be some proportion between the object and the faculty; and the Soul doth know it fels, wherein it hath no need of the phantasie, for when it is intimately present to it self, it wanteth not the ministry of the phantasie to its own intellection. Besides it can conceive of universals, abstracted from its singulars, in which it doth not depend upon the phantasie, for phantasmata sunt singulaeium, non universalium; therefore since it can act in the Body without dependance on the Body, it can exist without the Body, and not dye when the Body doth; which yet is more plain and certain from the Scripture; which relleth us that the Soul of Lazarus, after death, was carryed by Angels into Abrahams bosom, Luk. 16.22. but they did not ⟨p. 27⟩carry it dead or alive, but alive, and not dead. Stephen when dying expected the continuance of his Soul in being, and its entrance into Bliss. Act. 7.59. saying, Lord Jesus receive my Spirit. The Thief upon the Cross had a promise from Christ, that that day he should be with him in Paradise: in his body he is not yet, therefore in his Soul without the Body; therefore the Soul doth exist without the Body. Paul believed the immortality of his Soul, and its existence after the death of his Body. Phil. 1.23. I am in a strait, having a desire to depart, & to be with Christ, which is far better. If his Soul had not existed, he had not been a moment sooner with Christ, nay, his Soul in the Body had some Communion with Christ, if it dyed with the Body, it had none, and that was not far better but worse.
