fire, and tied in a chain at the same time,and all but one devil, a spirit without a body.

Also the imagination hath conceived that the soul of man is a spirit infused or put into the body by God himself, and that man begets the body, but not the soul or life of man, that is conceived to be immortal, or a spirit that is so invisible, that cannot be seen nor known what it is, and that it can live of itself when it is gone out of the body. *****

Thus the imagination of reason the devil, hath cre ated its own soul in its own image and likeness; and this hath been the occasion for producing of familiar spirits, and of dealing with those that have a familiar spirit, being conformed to the very image of the devil.--Many things more of the like nature might be said in this point.

But here the reader may see if there be any true light of faith in him, how the imagination of reason in man hath created spirits without bodies, and that the devil is a bodyless spirit, and in hell fire, and in a chain of darkness, and yet at liberty at the same time to tempt people; and in hell fire, and yet out of the fire when he pleaseth; and that he may be called out of hell, or out of the ground, when a witch by her familiar spirit doth call; and that he shall appear in any shape they will have him, yet he shall have no body nor substance, but a mere shadow; yet this shadow shall speak with a low voice or speech out of the ground; as if speech could proceed from a shadow without substance.

So that the imagination of the heart of man hath created to itself a devil, that God never created; and the imagination of man's heart hath created his own soul in the image and likeness of the devil, that is to say, a spirit without a body; and that a spirit without a

body may be capable of joy or sorrow; and that a spirit may subsist and have a being in joy or sorrow without a body, which thing is impossible.

But observe the creation that the imagination of man hath created to himself: for it is the nature of imagination of reason the devil, he always creates spirits without bodies, but God the Creator he always creates spirits and bodies together, for God never created any spirit without a body; for when God made man after his own image and likeness, he made him with a body as well as a spirit, else man could not be made in the image and likeness of God, if God had a body of his own as well as a spirit.

So that Adam was made or created in the image and likeness of God; for Adam had a visible body and spirit, undivided and unseparable one from the other; they were but one visible sensible being, and when the life was dead the body was dead, and when the body is really dead, the spirit and life was and is dead also; and both are laid in the ground together, as is declared in all our writings, but more especially in that book entitled "The mortality of the soul.'

CHAP. XI.

ALSO I do declare further, that God did never create any spirit without a body, neither of angels nor men, nor no other creature, neither in heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, nor the waters under the earth. There is no spirit or life whatsoever that is created of God but it hath a body to that life or spirit; but if a spirit have any being without a body, that spirit is none of God's creation, for God never created any spirit whatsoever without a body as I said before.

But the imagination of reason in man, which is the devil, hath created all creatures in the imagination to have spirits without bodies, both of angels above and man here on earth, and all creatures upon the earth, and in the waters that have the breath of life, the imagination of reason saith, their spirits may subsist without bodies, or go out of those bodies they have, and enter into other bodies, and appear in the shape of a body, and yet be of no substance; so that the devil's creation is all of spirits without bodies, and God's creation is all with bodies and spirits together.

And this darkness hath overspread the nature of man all the world over, which is the occasion of that opinion of houses and places being haunted with evil spirits and spirits walking without bodies, and dealing with familiar spirits, that peep and mutter, and whisper as it were out of the ground. These things and many more are produced by the imagination of the heart of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil, and continually evil; for it hath given a being to spirits without bodies, to fright itself to that which hath no being of itself.

For I declare and perfectly know, that there is no such thing as spirits to walk without bodies, nor assume any shape after death, nor be raised out of the ground by any witch or any familiar spirit whatsoever; it is all produced out of the dark imagination of the heart, where ignorance beareth rule, for there is no such thing can be presented but to the ignorant and dark minded people.

Thus I have given the reader to understand something more concerning the power of witches, and how they may be said to raise spirits out of the ground, and from whence that low speech doth come, with those scriptures opened that speak as if a familiar spirit did hear whispering out of the dust.

Also I have given the interpretation of that in Samuel concerning the witch of Endor, and those places of scripture in Isaiah; these places are the most concerning spirits being raised without bodies of any in the scriptures; but there have been some other places of scriptures, that do seem to carry a shew as if spirits might rise again without bodies, and I have been desired by some to open those scriptures that seem to tend to that purpose, though the common and general objection amongst all people is, that of the witch of Endor and king Saul, which I have opened before; yet for the further satisfaction of of the reader, I shall open and interpret the other places objected, that seem to tend to the same thing.

The places of scripture are three; the first is Isaih lxi. 1. the words are these, 'the spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; so Luke iv. 18. the words in Luke are much to the same

purpose, and little difference; only that which Isaiah did prophesy of, it was fullfiled by Christ in his time; so the first epistle of Peter, chap. iii. 18, 19, 20, verses, the words are these, 'for Christ also hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust; that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.' Verse 19. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison:' verse 20. Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water.

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