HENCE we may clearly see how marvellously GOD has been affected towards us from the _Beginning_; how much he delighted in us, and desired the entire _Fruition_ and full Enjoyment of our perpetual _Familiarity_, and eternal _Fellowship_; which _Truth_ Christ[7] (the Wisdom of the _Father_) confirms by his own _Testimony_. AND such is still the great Love and Propension of GOD towards _Man_, that all Things (thro’ his _Grace_) are communicated to _him_ by his only _SON_;[8] and that more especially because we are conditional _Sharers_, equal _Inheritors_, and _Joint-Heirs_ with him, agreeable to the[9] _Apostles Phrase_; and whatever is express’d in _CHRIST_, may also be in _Man_: Since as _he_ is _eternal_, and lives for ever, so _Man_ (by his _Grace_ and _Merits_) does the same; for _he_ having sufficiently bruised _Satan_’s Head, led _Captivity_ Captive, and conquer’d _Death_, rose again, and became the _Prince_ and _Captain_ of so glorious a _VICTORY_, that all _Men_, by virtue of that _Triumph_, might be raised up again at the Last Day, and _that_ to participate of an IMMORTALITY of _Welfare_ or _Woe_. [Illustration] CHAP. V. _Of the_ FACULTIES _of the SOUL_. P_lato_, _Alcinous_, and many other learned Men, do agree, that the _heavenly Spirit’s Composition_, mixing _Fire_, _Air_, _Earth_, and _Water_, made of them all, put together, _one_ BODY; which they subjected to the Service of the _SOUL_, assigning the several _Provinces_ of the _one_, to the sundry _Faculties_ of the _other_: To the _meaner_ of them, mean and low _Places_; as to _Anger_, the _Midriff_; to _Lust_, the _Womb_, &c: but to the more _noble Senses_, the _HEAD_, as the _Tower_ of the whole _Body_. AS they divide these SENSES into _external_ and _internal_; so they subdivide the _external Senses_ into _five_: To which are allotted as many proper _Organs_ or _Subjects_, being so order’d, that they which are placed in the more eminent _Parts_ of the _Body_, have the greater Degree of _Purity_. FOR the _Eyes_, placed in the uppermost part, are the most _pure_, and have an Affinity with the Nature of _Fire_ and _Light_. The _Ears_ have the second Order of _Place_ and _Purity_, and are compar’d to the _Air_. The _Nostrils_ take the third Order, and have a middle Nature betwixt _Air_ and _Water_. Then the _Organ_ of _Tasting_, which is _grosser_, and most like to the Nature of _Water_. And, lastly, _Touching_ being diffus’d through the whole _Body_, is compar’d to the _Grossness_ of _Earth_.