17. That fmiteth any Frame of Man fhall Ver. 18. That fmiteth the Frame of a Beaft fhall make it good: Frame for Frame. Numb, v. 2. Whosoever's Frame is defiled. vi. 11. For that he finned by the Frame. ix. 6. Who were polluted by the Frame of a Man.

Ver. 10. ix. 11. He that touches the dead of a human Frame. Ver. 13. Whosoever touches the dead, the Frame of a Man. xxiii. 10, Let my Frame die the Death of the Righteous. xxxi. 19. Every one that kills WD). Deut. xix. 11. Rife up against him, and fmite him in the Frame, Jof. x. 28. Deftroyed them, and every win it. Job xxxiii. 18. Preferve his Frame from Corruption. Ver, 21, 30. Matt. x. 28. Not able to kill ux the Soul.

We have Accounts of relieving the Frame, Prov. xxv. 13. Lam. i. 11, 16, 19. and Kings xvii. 22. that Life was reftored to one; and we have a conditional Promise, Prov. iii. 22. They shall be Lives to thy Frame, befides Job's Declaration, xix. 26. And this fettles an Article of the Creed. Ifa. liii, 13. Emptied out his Frame to Death. Pfal. xvi. 10. For thou wilt not leave my Frame in the Grave. And confounding thefe has drawn Men into the Notion of Purgatory. PJ.

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cxlii. 8. Bring my Frame out of 7301 Confinement. Ifa. xxii. 22. The Key of the. Houfe of David will I lay upon his Shoulders. So be fhall open and none fhall fhut; and be fhall fhut and none fhall open. Ibid. xlii. 7. To bring out the Prisoners from Confinement, them that fit in Darkness, out of the Prifon-Houfe. lxi. 1. The Opening of the Prifon to them that are bound. Zach. ix. 11. Have releafed thy Prifoners out of the Pit.

We fhall proceed to the Soul, the Tranflators feem to have taken the Idea of n breathed from the Act of a Man, fuppofing him communicating his own Breath, which was Part of the Support of his own Life, to another which had no Breath, and fo, as they fuppofed, no Life, and thereby communicating Life. But as the Word is not apply'd to any fuch Purpofes, it can give no fuch Idea. By this Miftake of the Idea they have, as far as they could, loft the Idea of the Soul. The Word is ufed with perfixed as an Agent. fer. vi. 29. For a Pair of Bellows, from their taking in of the Air, and pouring it out; without the for an Action, that of pouring in or out; 'tis apply'd to the Voice, to fuch a Blaft of Fire, or

Light, as had Power to deftroy Enemies. Ezek. xxxvii. 9. to pouring the Spirit into dead Bodies; the Idea is taken from the Air infufing into the Face of Man, which with Refpect to it (the Air which furrounds him) is into every Part of Man, the Fire, the Light, thofe Parts which enter at the Pores, which carry on the Expanfion, and thereby Circulation, Breathing, &c. So John viii. 12. The Light of Life (of which hereafter) and fo the Idea is carried up, Job xi. 20. to the Inftrument which pours out the Soul; and ibid. xxxi. 39, and fer. xv. 9. to the pouring out, or as we tranflate it, giving up the Ghoft; in each the Soul is expreffed by the Subftantive of this Word no, viz. that which was poured in.

I have in the fecond Part of M. P. fufficiently fhewed, that the Gods and Spirits of the Heathens were the Subftance, Conditions, and Powers of the Air; and they thought of no other Soul but the Air, as is clearly expreffed, Wifd. ii. 1. For the Ungodly faid, reafoning with themselves, but not aright, and we shall be hereaf ter as though we had never been: For the Breath in our Noftrils is as Smoak, and a little Spark in the moving of our Heart: Which being extinguished, our Body fhall

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be turned into Afbes, and our Spirit Shall vanish as the foft Air. Hence their Zaus from Caw, or tw, Jupiter's Epithet, the Giver of Life, or of Light, Heat, which gives Life; fo Solomon, no doubt, personating them, in Ridicule of their Notions about this n Spirit, Aer. Eccl. iii. 21. Who knows the Spirit (Breath) of the Sons of Adam that goeth upwards; and the Spirit (Breath) of a Beaft that goes downwards to the Earth. For when he speaks as a Prophet, he once uses this Word defcribed by other Words for the Soul. Ibid. xii. 7. And the Duft fhall return to the Earth as it was; and the Spirit shall return to God чово gave it. I muft in this Work, after I have fhewed the Nature of Man, his State, &c. fhew, that there is a Neceffity, and that it cannot be otherwife, but that all the Ideas we have of the Effence or Powers of our own Souls or other Spirits, nay, even of God, muft be taken from those in the Air. And as this is taken from the Air in the faid Condition and Action, Halitus, Flatus per, which is the true and real Idea of the Word, it is ufed here for a Being of an Effence not otherwise to be defcribed, of a different Nature, and diftinct from the Subftance of the Man, the Crea

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ture that lives and has his Powers from the Element of the Air.

There is nothing but the Effence has Exiftence; fo nothing but that Effence, and the Perfons in it (of which hereafter) has Life or Lives in it or them, and are able to communicate Degrees of that Kind of Existence to Creatures; fo of Chrift, John i. 4. In him was Life, and the Life was the Light of Men. It appears, God has created one Genus, and fo framed them, that his Agents mechanically give Life to them; we fuppofe what has been proved, and will be improved, that there is a created Fluid of three Names, which acts mechanically, and rules every thing in this System; and that Fluid and thofe Names are used to give us Ideas of the uncreated Effence, and Perfons in that Effence, who have created, framed, and rule every Thing; and by the Strength and Power of thefe invifible Agents, to give us Ideas of the Effence, which created, formed, and fo enabled them to act: And that this Species of created Matter, fo formed into Frames to receive Life from this created Fluid mechanically, which has not Life for itself (though the Heathens afcribed it) but Power of communicating it to,

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