Apokrypta apokalypta velata quædam revelata : some certain, hidden, or vailed spiritual verities revealed : upon occasion of various very prying and critical queries concerning God, the devil, and man, as to his body, soul, and spirit, Heaven, Hell, Judgement &c : propounded to George Fox, John Perrot, Samuel Fisher : and after that (with a complaint for want of, and stricter urgency for an answer) re-propounded to Edward Burroughs : by two persons, choosing to notifie themselves to us no other way then by these two unwonted (if not self-assumed) titles, viz. Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah : which truths (as there inspired by the spirit of God) are here expired in love to the souls of men / from ... Samuel Fisher.

Qu. 4. Whether be they essentially impregnated in man? If so, When, and after what manner were the said Spirits infused into him?

Ans. In this Query there is a fallacy, called, A bene divi∣sis ad male conjuncta; i. e. A question asked of many things together, which (in some sense at least) may be truly affirm∣ed of some of them, but cannot be affirmed of them all: I answer therefore, They are not all three (as your Query seems to intimate) essentially impregnated in man; neither are they all three de esse homini; for first, as to the Spirit of God, a man may remain a man, i. e A man of the Earth (as to his Essentials) when the Spirit of God which was once given him, is (as David prayed it might not be from himself) no less then totally taken from him; therefore God's Spirit is not essentially impregnated in man. And as to the Spirit of the De∣vil, Man was (Quod Esse) truly and formally man, before the Spirit of the Devil did prevail to enter him, and will be so again, when that unclean Spirit is again ejected and cast out of him, Quod potest vel adesse, vel abesse, sine subjecti inte∣ritu quoad suum esse, hoc non est de essentia huic subjecto: That which may be differently, either in, or not in any subject, without the destruction of that subject, as to its essential be∣ing, is not essential to the being of it: But so may be either God's Spirit, which is God's gift to man, after he is truly man, or the Devil's Spirit, which may be cast forth of man, and yet man truly remain man: Therefore neither of these are essenti∣ally impregnated in him.

As to the second part of this fourth Query, wherein you ask, When, and after what manner the said Spirits were infused into man? It's of so little consequence to know, that it's well nigh as frivolous for one wise man to enquire after it, as 'tis impertinent and unprofitable for another to resolve it; and there∣fore as to the two Spirits of God and the Devil, neither of which two are essential to man (as his own Spirit (in some kind at least) may be said to be, of which there is more hereafter spoken) I say onely this, namely, as to that of God, Quaerendum est potiùs, quomodo in bono illo spirits ambule∣mus, quàm quomodo in nos d•…•…erit. And as to that of the De∣vil, thus, Quarendum est potiùs, quomodo ex malo isto evadere pos∣simus, quam quomodo in nos invaserit.