this. Now if God's command reacheth to the whole man, and man's power reacheth to the body or carcafe; how can it be avoided but God's command fhall be in vain? If in this work the chief part belongs to God, it cannot with reason be afcribed to man; neither can God command him to do all (according to his kind, that is the law of nature) if he can do but the leaft part.

If the voice and ordinance of God, be no lefs effectual in man, than it is in the rest of the living creatures propagating; then, according to the ordinance of God, man begetteth whole man, foul and body.

Secondly, God fo ordered the nature of all creatures in the beginning, that they might perfift of themselves, and multiply their kinds by the power of nature; that fo he himself might not be always creating new creatures: and herein man was ranked amongst the rest. On the feventh day (faith Mofes) God ended the work which he had made, and he refted on the feventh day from all his works which he had made.

Hence I reason thus: if God abfolutely ceafed from the work of creation, then alfo he ceafed from the creation of fouls: but the antecedent is true, therefore the confequent.

Thirdly, We read, Adam begat a fon in his own likeness, after his own image. Gen. v. 3. Whence it appears, that he was the parent of the whole nature, and not of one part only for this image is opposed to the image of God spoken of in Adam before: which image and likeness was not in the body, for then it would follow that God had a body, but in his foul, in respect of his mind; and those divine gifts whereby Adam excelled the rest of the creatures. It will follow, that as God made Adam in his innocency, in his own image and likeness, chiefly in regard of the foul; fo Adam in his corrupted eftate begat a fon in his own image and likeness, not in regard of the body only, but chiefly in respect of the foul, and in that, corrupt and finful like himself.

Fourthly,

Fourthly, God made a promise to Abraham, faying, I will be thy God, and the God of thy feed after thee. Gen. xvii. 7. Where by feed must needs be meant that which is born of feed, to wit, whole man, and not the body only, for that without the foul is dead: and as our Saviour speaks in another cafe; God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, Matt. xxii. 32. And if God will not ftyle himself the God of the dead, unless the foul at least be still living, much less will he call himself the God of a fenfeless fubftance inferior to the brute beafts. Either therefore God muft here promife to be the God of an unreasonable brute, or else Abraham's feed must contain more than a body, yea, extend itself to the whole man, as well foul as body, that is to say, persons confifting of both, for to fuch only is this promise made.

Fifthly, When the Scripture affirms, that fixty-fix fouls defcended from the loins of Jacob: doth it not plainly teach that the fouls of children defcend from their parents? Neither can the force of this place be avoided, by saying that the foul is here put for the body; for a little before it is faid, thefe are the fons of Rachel which were born unto Jacob, fourteen fouls in all; and immediately after, the fons of Jofeph were two fouls; fo that it is evident the fouls fignify fons, viz. the whole person and nature of man.

[To be continued.]

An Extract from Mr. BAXTER'S Certainty of the WORLD of SPIRITS: fully evinced by unquestionable Hiftories of Apparitions, Witchcrafts, &c.

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The Earl of Orery's Account of a Soldier.

THE

HE Earl of Orery told me, that Colonel l'enables, (then going to Hifpaniola, with the foldiers that were there repulfed and took Jamaica) had a foldier in his army that

came out of Ireland, and was under Colonel Hill. That this foldier looked pale and fad, and pined away, but the cause was unknown: at laft he came to Col. Hill with this confeflion, viz. That he had been a fervant in England, to one that carried ftockings and fuch like ware about to fell, and for his money, he had murdered his mafter, and buried him in fuch a place and flying into Ireland, enlifted himself his foldier, and that for a long time, whenever he lay alone, fomething like a headless man flood by his bed-side, saying to him, Wilt thou yet confefs? And in this cafe of fear he had continued, till lately it appeared to him when he had a bedfellow, and faid as before, Wilt thou yet confefs? And now feeing no hope of concealing it any longer, he confeffed. And his going to Hifpaniola was his punishment, instead of death.

A true relation from Ilonyton in the county of Devon.

About nine or ten years fince, in the house of Mrs. Hieron, of Honyton, widow, there happened this strange inftance.

This widow Hieron, a perfon of good quality, kept a Mercer's fhop. She had a maid fervant, Elizabeth Brooker, who fold fmall wares in a flall before her door. On Saturday (being the market-day) a certain woman of Honyton, came to the faid Elizabeth Brooker, and afked her for a pin. The maid readily gave her one from her fleeve; but this did not fatisfy her, for fhe would have one of a larger fort, out of a paper that hung up to fell. The maid told her those pins were not hers to give, fhe must ask her mistress; and when fhe had orders, fhe would give her one. The woman asked her again and again, and the maid as often refufed complying with her request. At length the woman went away in a great rage, telling the maid fhe fhould hear farther from her, and that she would ere long with the had given her the pin, with many other threatening fpeeches. The next day (being the

Lord's

Lord's day,) while her mistress and the reft of the family were at dinner, and the maid waiting at the table, on a fudden fhe gave a very great cry, faying fhe had a pin thruft into her thigh, which few of the family believed, knowing there was no person in the room beside herself, and the family, who all fat at meat, the only standing to attend them. Her mistress arose from table, and Mr. Samuel Hieron's wife, who was then living. She was forced to go to bed, and they fent for a Midwife who had skill in fores and wounds. On her arrival, fhe faw there had been fome fmall hurt in the fkin, but the pin was out of fight; and feeling fo as to understand what it was, or exactly where, fhe applied a plaister of Venice turpentine all that night, and many other things the next day, but the pain was ftill the fame. On Tuesday they advised with Mr. Salter, a fkilful Apothecary, whofe counsel they followed, but all in vain. On Wednesday, the fame week, they with great trouble and pain, brought her to Exeter, and lodged her at Mr. John Hopkin's, a worthy Minifter of the Gofpel. They fent for me to fee her, and to advise what to do to eafe her pain. Nothing would fatisfy the maid, but cutting it out; which was fomewhat difficult, because it was hard to find the place exactly, where to make the incifion; but the courage of the patient did greatly promote the operation. I made a large incision, according to the length of the muscles; and though I could find no fign of the pin upon the first incision, yet by putting my incifion-knife obliquely, I felt the pin, and brought it out near an inch within the skin, on which she had great eafe, and in fifteen days the fore was entirely cured. This operation was performed in the prefence of Mrs. Hoppin, Mrs. Gold, Mrs. Ford, and many worthy perfons of good reputation. And the truth of that I give under my hand this 6th day of September, 1681, '

ANTHONY SMITH, Surgeon.

A re.

A remarkable Account of two Brothers, extracted from Linfchoten's Voyages.

IN

N the fixteenth century, the Portuguese carracks failed from Lisbon to Goa. There were no lefs than twelve hundred fouls on board one of thefe veffels. The beginning of their voyage was profperous; they had doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and were steering their course North-east, to the great continent of India, when fome Gentlemen on board who having studied Geography and Navigation, found in the latitude they were then in, a large ridge of rocks laid down in their Sea-charts. They no fooner made this difcovery, than they acquainted the Captain of the fhip with it, defiring him to communicate the fame to the Pilot, which request he immediately granted, recommending him to lay by in the night, and flacken fail by day, until they fhould be past the danger. It is a custom always among the Portuguese absolutely to commit the failing part, or the navigation of the vessel to the Pilot, who is answerable with his head for the fafe-conduct or carriage of the King's fhips, or those that belong to private traders; and he is under no manner of direction from the Captain, who commands in every other refpect. The Pilot being a self-sufficient man, took it as an affront to be taught his art, and inftead of complying with the Captain's request, actually crowded more fail. They had not failed many hours, before the fhip ftruck upon a rock. In this diftress the Captain ordered the pinnace to be launched, into which having toffed a small quantity of bifcuit, and fome boxes of marmalade, he jumped in himself with nineteen others, who with their fwords prevented the coming in of any more, left the boat fhould fink. In this condition they put off into the great Indian ocean, without a compass