or enlivening the Body. Others, according to Scripture phrase, the departing of the Soul from the Body. So Peter stiles it, 2 Pet. 1.15. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, after my departure, (i.e.) after my death. Augustine calls it the laying down of an heavy burthen, provided there be not another burden for the Soul to bear afterwards, which will sink it into Hell.
In respect of the Body which the Soul now forsakes, it is called the putting off this Tabernacle, 2 Pet. 1.14. And the dissolving the earthly House or Tabernacle, 2 Cor. 5.1.
In respect of the terminus à quo, the place from which the Soul removes at death, it is called our departure hence, Phil. 1.23. or our weighing Anchor and loosing from this coast or shoar to sail to another.
In respect of the terminus ad quem, the place to which the Spirits of the just go at death, it is called our going to, or be∣ing with the Lord, ibid. To conclude, in respect of that which doth most lively resemble and shadow it forth, it is called our falling asleep, Acts 7. ult. our sleeping in Iesus, 1 Thes. 4.14. This Metaphor of sleep, must be stretched no further than the Spirit of God designed in the choice of it, which was not to favour and countenance the fancy of a sleeping Soul after death; but to represent its state of placid rest in Jesus's bosom, if it refer at all to the Soul: for I think it most properly respects the Body; and thence the Sepulchres where the Bodies of the Saints were laid, got the name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Dormitories, or sleeping places.
This is its last farewel to this world, never more to return to a low animal life more, Iob 7.9, 10. For as the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more; he shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. The Soul is no more bound to a Body, nor a Retainer to Sun, Moon or Stars, to meat drink and sleep, but is become a free, single, abstracted be∣ing, a separate and pure Spirit, which the Latins call Le∣mures, Manes, Ghosts or Souls of the dead, and my Text Spi∣rits made perfect, a being much like unto the Angels who are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, bodiless Powers. An Angel, as one speaks,