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them that walk therein.- lvii. 16. The Spirit (Breath) fhall fail before me, and the Souls which I have made. So 1 Thef. v. 23. σῶμα Spirit, πνεῦμα Soul, and ψυχὴ Body. Thefe two Words are borrowed from Man and applied to God, to give us a borrowed Idea of the two Actions of God upon Man; the one, of forming, which is attributed to : and the other of giving Life, which is attributed to D, Job Xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God made me; and the Soul of the Almighty gave me Life.

The Soul of Man cannot be defcribed by Words, because we have no Idea of it; and befides, the Idea of a Halitus, the Word rendered the Heart, is used as an Emblem of the Mind or Soul; as, Deut. vi. 5. Thou shalt love Jehovah thy Aleim with all thy Heart, with all thy Frame, and with all thy Might. 2 King. xxiii. 3. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Serve him with a perfect Heart, and a willing Frame.

I am next to prove, that though the Air can give but one Life, Jehovah Aleim can give two. Jer. xvii. 13. Jehovah, the Fountain of living Waters. Pfal. xxxvi. 10. The Aleim-with thee is the Fountain of Lives; and in thy Light fhall we fee Light. 1 S-m. xvii. 26, 36. The Aleim- "n the living ones (Livers.) D

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Jehovah Aleim is Truth, he is Aleim the Livers; xxiii. 36. Ye have perverted the Words of the Aleim ", of Jehovah of Hofts our Aleim. As the Word "n Lives, or Livers, is ufed plural, in Oppofition to a fingle Life in the Soul, or in refpect of the Perfonality, fo when their Effence, or thofe Perfons already often mentioned,) are compared with that fluid Substance and thofe fuppofed Perfons in it, which have no Life in it or themselves, the Word is ufed fingular. The Covenant or Grant from God to Man was for two Lives; Mal. ii. 5. My Covenant was with him " of Lives and Peace .Pf. xxi. 5. He asked Lives of thee, thou gavest him Length of Day's for ever and ever. fame Duration as Ifa. xxvi. Ibid. xlv. 17. Zach. xiv. 8. The Waters of Lives hall go out from Jerufalem. The Sacrament was alfo for Lives; Gen. ii. 9. The Tree of Lives, and in mentioning it occafionally, Prov. iii. 18. & al. The Tree of Lives. So whenever the Means of obtaining Happinefs, including that in a future State, which only is called Life, the Directions, or, &c. occafion the mentioning it, 'tis always Plural, Pfal. xvi. 11. Thou wilt not leave my Frame in the Grave, nor fuffer thy boly one to fee Corruption. Thou wilt

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make me to know the Path of Lives; thy Prefence is Fulness of Joy, at thy right Hand are Pleafures for ever more. xxxiii. 6.

Lives in his Favour. xxxiv. 13. what Man is he that defireth Lives. Ixiii. 4. becaufe thy Mercy is better than Lives. Prov. iii. 2. Length of Days and Years of Lives, iv. 22. they are Lives to them that find them: V. 23. out of it are the Iffues of Lives. vi. 23. Reproofs of Inftruction are the Way of Lives. viii. 35 Whofo findeth me findeth Lives. ix. 11. Years of Lives fhall be added to you. x. 16. The Labour of the Righteous tendeth to Lives. xi, 19. xiv. 27. The Fear of Jehovah is a Fountain of Lives xv. 24. The Way of Lives is above to the Wife. xxi. 21. Findeth Lives Righteousness and Glory. xxii. 4. By Humility and the Fear of Jehovah, are Riches and Honour and Lives. Ezek. xxxiii. 15. If the wicked restore the Pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the Statutes of Lives, without committing Iniquity, be fhall furely live, he shall not die..

The Aleim made Man of fuch Atoms as are in other Animals, a Body with fuch Difpofitions as are in other Brutes, to live as they live, &c. The Air which now forms and gives Life to all Bodies, infused Light and Spirit into their Body, as it Da had

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and fupporting it in thefe Frames, is to give us an Idea of a Species of created Effence, to Parts of which that uncreated Effence, of which the created Names give us an Idea, has, independent of them, communicated Lives. And the Mechanifm in this Fluid, and thofe Frames, is to give us Ideas of the Manner of com municating this Sort of Life, and of fupporting it, because we can have no higher Object for Ideas.

But as Ideas of the Effence and of the Perfons, because invifible, and of their Actions, Strength, and Power, are taken from this Fluid and the three Parts in it; and as one of the Names or the undivided third Part in this created Fluid is called Spirit, and is the Breath, and with the Light, another undivided third Part is the Life of the living Creature; and as the Manner of infufing Life into that Frame by this Machine, is infufing a Part or Parts of itself, or of that Part or Parts of itself which in that Action is called Light, and Spirit; and as the Word Spirit is employed to give us an Idea of the Spirit, the third Perfon in the uncreated Effence; and as it is alfo employed, joined with Jehovah or Aleim, to give us an Idea of Power, fo is made the Emblem

blem of Power, and faid to be communicated to Man or Men to give an Idea, not of communicating the whole or any Part of the Effence of that Perfon, but of the delegated Power of exercising the Attribute of Prescience, or fome other of the Attributes of that Effence or Perfon; and as Light is used to give us an Idea of the fecond Perfon; the Word Spirit or the Word Light could not be used here; and the Idea taken from either or both of them, which give Life to the Body, would not have made the Distinction which is next to infinite.

So as God created another Species, and gives it Lives; the Name of that which is to give us an Idea of that which conftitutes a created Mind, that is, the Effence of the Soul or Mind, which is but a fmall Part of that created Effence, because invisible, is a Name of a small Part of that created Fluid, Part of the Subftance of that Machine which gives Life to our Body. A Name of a small Part of the Mixture, a Halitus in that Condition or Action of the Fluid upon the Body of Man, which we from its Effects call Heat, is borrowed to give us an Idea of that fmall Part of an Effence or Subftance, out of which that is taken which we call a Soul or Mind; and