THe Soule is said to be in all, and every part of man; and so* 1.1 are the Elect disporsed into every part of the world▪ Mat. 24. 31 2. As the body of man is carnall, and the Soule spirituall, so are the men of the world said to be carnall minded men, and the elect spirituall minded men, Rom. 8. 4, 5. 3. As the Soule is a companion to the body, untill the death of the body, so the elect be in the world, until the desolution of it, Mat. 28. 22. 4. As the absence of the soule procureth the death of the body, so the ex∣tracting of the elect, wil procure the consummation of the world, Mat. 24. 22. Psal. 50. 3, 4, 5, 6. 5. As the carnal substance of man cannot properly be termed man, without the Soule (which giveth its being unto it) no more can the men of the world be pro∣perly termed a world, without the elect, who as it were giveth a being unto it, for whose cause the world doth subsist, being such as stand in the gap betwixt the wrath of God and the world; to which purpose Scriptures are plentiful. 6. As the Soule is said to be the chiefe part of man, or the man it self, by whose infusion man is said to become a living soule, Gen. 2. 7. So are the elect the chiefe part of the world, and so consequently a world it self, the wicked of the world being only the externall forme, as the Body is to the Soule.
Again, the world may be divided into two distinct Kingdomes,* 1.2 the one belonging to Christ, consisting of the number of the elect, Heb. 12. 23. and the other to Sathan, who ruleth in the hearts of the children of disobedience, Ephes. 2. 2. and in this sence the one may as properly be termed a world as the other; the elect being a Microcosme or little world in respect of the greater (as man is so termed in regard of his respondance with the greater, being the Bo••ke of Nature, and car••ying about him an epitomy of the world) and so are the elect in respect of the ne••renesse of the relation be∣twixt