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From whom we expect the lesse of power] he meane's,* 1.1 Death [and the greatest of bodily paines in the loosing] must be censured next; and first of the first. By death we doe not loose all power; yea without doubt, like a man out of prison, he is more active and able then he
was within; so is the soul, when it is broke out of this gaole or dunghill, its natural corruptible body; nor can he say that he meant bodily power, for then he would not have left out that word Bodily in this which he joyned with Paine in his following sentence; men, without question, who have hopes of that better life hereafter, do not expect the losse of all power by this death, but ra∣ther the increase of it; and therefore, suppose he should say he meant bodily power, which indeed must needs be lost by death, yet who is troubled to loose a bag of Silver, when in its room shall be left a bag of Gold; to loose bo∣dily power, and gaine spirituall? It was said of our Druids in England, who taught the Immortality of the soule, Ignavi est rediturae parcere vitae, it was a poor dull thing, to spare that life which would returne again; but then if they had pryed into, and could have considered, the glorious immortall existence, which men shall have hereafter for the mortall and contemptible being here, it might have been said that it were not only a dul, but a beastly thing for a man so much to affect the sensual pleasures of this fleshly life, as to be unwilling for the losse of them to gaine Spirituall perfections; we cannot then say that we expect to loose by death all our power; and if we do leave bodily powers, we are not loosers, but gainers by it.
Nor the power lost with it considerable in respect of the spiritual activity and perfection gaind by Death.