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DOCT. XVII. The confirmation of the same by another similitude, and even out of Phi∣losophie it self.
CErtainly, If one and the same soul were in all men: it would cause innumerable Persons to be but one man: As from one and the same essence in three divine Persons, di∣vines conclude that there is but one God. And this would appear much more to be true, if those many men should have but one head, whereun∣to to be annexed, and from whence alone to derive sense and motion. What wonder then if the holy Spirit, which is but one in Christ and in all the godly, knit us so really together, that we become one with him, and with our selves; Yea, that we all be∣come one new man in Christ our head? For in two respects saith the Apostles that all the faithfull are One new man, to wit,* 1.1 in respect of one Spirit by which, and one head unto which we are annexed and knit.