Query 11. What is it in man that must be made sensible of the joy of the one, through obedience, or the torment of the other through disobedience, since what God hath loved, he loves to the end, and the Earth must return to the Earth, and the Spirit to him that gave it.

Ans. The soul of man is that in man, which when once de∣parted from its body, which it's the Life of, and also from its a foresaid spirit, which is its life, must be made sensible of the consolation through obedience, or of the tribulation through disobedience, as it is written Ezek 18. The soul that sinneth shall dye, though the Seed of God (had it kept its union with it) would have kept it A living soul. So Rom. 2. it is written, Tribu∣lation Page  23 and anguish, indignation and wrath, must be upon every soul of man that doth evil; but glory, honor, and peace upon every soul of man that worketh good, whether they be Jews or Gentiles. And this with a non obstante to your words of ex∣ception at the end of the query, viz. since what God hath once loved, he loves to the end; which are neither the words of Scripture, nor of the truth; for there it's said, having loved his own (which are such onely, who own him in his love) he loved them to the end; and this we say is unchangeably so, although this is also as unchangeable a truth of God, who cannot change; That having from everlasting hated the foreseen subjects of ungodliness, whom he afore unchangeably ordain∣ed to be objects of his wrath and condemnation, he hated them unto the end, for as immutably as he loves Jacob, which is the righteous Seed that is ever blessed; he hates Esau or Edom, the Seed of evil-doers, which is never to be renowned; which because it is for ever the border of wickedness, therefore is it the people against whom God hath indig∣nation for ever *. And this notwithstanding also your other words in the Query, viz. See∣ing that the Earth must return to the Earth, and the Spirit to God that gave it: For, as I said above, then doth the evil Soul stand most nakedly open to its misery, and sensible of its tor∣ment, vvhen it's divested of that body in which it took its pleasure, and of its spirit vvhich should, could, and vvould have led it once (but novv it cannot, the gulph being fix∣ed) to those Rivers of pleasure that are at Gods right hand for evermore. And as for that soul that is found doing good, its most fully cloathed upon vvith its glorious House from above, and its joy and rest in God, vvhen it's uncloathed of its house of Clay, or earthly body, vvherein it dvvelt in bon∣dage to, and vvas once groaning under the bondage of its ovvn corruption.