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FRom the several parts and branches of this Description of the Soul, we may gather the choice Fruits which naturally grow upon them, in the following Inferences and Deductions of truth and duty. For we may say of them all, what the Historian doth of Palestine, that there is nihil infructuosum, nihil sterile; No Branch or Shrub is bar∣ren or unfruitful. Let us then search it Branch by Branch, and,
Inference. I.I 1.1
FRom the substantial Nature of the Soul, which we have proved to be a Being distinct from the Body, and subsisting by it self, we are informed, That great is the dif∣ference betwixt the death of a Man, and the death of all other creatures in the world. Their souls depend on, and perish with their bodies; but ours neither result from them, nor perish with them. My Body is not a Body, when my Soul hath forsaken it; but my Soul will remain a Soul, when this body is crumbled into dust. Men may live like beasts, a meer sensual life; yea, in some sense, they may dye like beasts, a stupid death: but in this there will be found a vast difference, Death kills both parts of the Beasts, destroyes matter and form; it toucheth only one part of Man, it destroyeth the Body, and only dislodgeth the Soul, but cannot destroy it.
In some things Solomon shews the Agreement betwixt our death and theirs, Eccles. 3.19, 20, 21. That which be∣fall••th the Sons of Men, befalleth the Beasts; even one thing befalleth them. As the one dyeth, so dyeth the other, all go to one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. We