and impurities, and shall passe aloft to heaven and adhere to God, which it could not doe, but being pure and neat; nor effect this, but by fire. _Zohar_ speakes to the same purpose, when the Elements destroy themselves, an æthereall body succeeds in their place which doth recloath them; or to speak better, the æthereall body which was reclad with them, devests it selfe; and this is represented to us in the 5 of _Esther_, where it is said, that _on the third day_ shee tooke off her clothes that shee was wont to weare, _and put on her royall apparell to appeare before the King_; which signifies the holy Spirit, and _Esther_ the reasonable soule, whose vestments are the garments of the kingdome of Heaven; of which he that _Daniel_ 3. chap. was said to be like to the Son of God, that crowns the just, and adornes them with royall apparell, to bring them into the presence of the King of Kings, to the Paradise of pleasure, clensed with aire from above, which the holy Spirit breathed into it. _Origen_ in his second Homily upon the 36 _Psalme_. It is the manner of holy Scripture to introduce two sorts of men, that is to say, the interiour and the exteriour, each of which, hath need as much as concernes him, of apparell, as well as nourishment; the external corporal man, maintaines himselfe with meats corruptible, proper and familiar to himselfe, having ever need of Salt, besides their own connaturall; but there is also meat for the inward, whereof it is said in the 8 of _Deuteronomy_, _Man doth not live by bread onely, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God_. And for matter of drinke, the Apostle in the 1 _Cor._ 10. _Our fathers did eat the same spirituall meat, and did drinke the same spirituall drinke; for they did drinke of that spirituall rocke that followed them, and that rocke was Christ_. Who speaking of this drinke in the 4. of Saint _John_, saith, _that hee is the fountaine of living water, and who so drinketh of the water that he shall give them, shall never thirst_. There are also two rayments in regard of the inner man. If he be a sinner, it is said _Psalme_ 109. _He hath put on malediction as a garment_, which must _be to him as his apparell, wherewith he is covered, and as a girdle wherewith he is girt_. And on the contrary the Apostle _Col._ 3. _Lie not one to another, having cast off the old man with his deeds, and put on the new, but be clothed with mercy, benignity, humility, and meeknesse of Spirit_.