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[Sect. 3] Thirdly, The Creatures are invisible.
1. THe glorious Heavens are invisible; if the Element were drawne away as a Curtaine, the imperi∣all Heavens are of so exceeding brightnesse, that the glo∣ry of them cannot be discerned but by a glorified eye. In his light we shall see light hereafter, not onely of know∣ledge, joy, and comfort, but the light of vision. Psal. 36.9. But whilst we be here it is invisible.
2. The Angels are Spirits, Heb. 1. ult. of a pure sub∣stance, not compounded of the foure Elements: so are invisible.
3. The Winde is invisible; the same word that signi∣fies a Spirit, signifies the Winde; so that we may heare the sound, but cannot see it. Iohn 3.8.
4. The Soule of man is invisible both in conveyance, in being and in departure.
1. In conveyance; some thinke wee have our Soules conveyed to us by participation, as one Candle lights a∣nother: some thinke that our Soules come by propaga∣tion, as a man to beget a man body and soule: some thinke that the soule comes by infusion; when the body is formed, then God infuses the soule, and so the child is alive. But when all is disputed, little is concluded; it is an invisible worke, and hid from us: Eccles. 11.5. Thou knowest not the way of the Spirit.
2. The Soule is invisible in being, and continuance in the body; men heare it speake by the tongue, and worke by the hand, and goe by the feete; as in a Watch, the spring within moves the wheeles, and wee doe see the point of the Dyall: So it is with the Soule; wee see it is, but how it is we know not. It is a Spirit, Psal. 31.••. Heb. 12.23. and therefore invisible.
3. The Soule is invisible at the departure: No dying mans soule was ever seene when it went away, because it is a spirit.