OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF SPIRIT, ANGEL, AND INSPIRATION IN THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. [Sidenote: Body and spirit how taken in the Scripture.] Seeing the foundation of all true ratiocination, is the constant signification of words; which in the doctrine following, dependeth not, as in natural science, on the will of the writer, nor, as in common conversation, on vulgar use, but on the sense they carry in the Scripture; it is necessary, before I proceed any further, to determine, out of the Bible, the meaning of such words, as by their ambiguity, may render what I am to infer upon them, obscure, or disputable. I will begin with the words BODY and SPIRIT, which in the language of the Schools are termed, _substances_, _corporeal_, and _incorporeal_. [Sidenote: Body and spirit how taken in the Scripture.] The word _body_, in the most general acceptation, signifieth that which filleth, or occupieth some certain room, or imagined place; and dependeth not on the imagination, but is a real part of that we call the _universe_. For the _universe_, being the aggregate of all bodies, there is no real part thereof that is not also _body_; nor any thing properly a _body_, that is not also part of that aggregate of all _bodies_, the _universe_. The same also, because bodies are subject to change, that is to say, to variety of apparence to the sense of living creatures, is called _substance_, that is to say, _subject_ to various accidents: as sometimes to be moved; sometimes to stand still; and to seem to our senses sometimes hot, sometimes cold, sometimes of one colour, smell, taste, or sound, sometimes of another. And this diversity of seeming, produced by the diversity of the operation of bodies on the organs of our sense, we attribute to alterations of the bodies that operate, and call them _accidents_ of those bodies. And according to this acceptation of the word, _substance_ and _body_ signify the same thing; and therefore _substance incorporeal_ are words, which when they are joined together, destroy one another, as if a man should say, an _incorporeal body_.