Chap.XI. OF MAMS SO VLE. 



ftrongeft judgmenc,and I (hall leave my booke to go co my 

 dinner. 



Now, to apply this to the (tare of a feperated foule; we are 

 to rememher how the Ipi-rituall judgements, which fl\e col- 

 lected in the body, do rcmainc in her after /lie is diverted of 

 it.- and likevvifc,we are to confider, how all her proceeding in 

 that ftatejs built,nor upon pa/fion. or any bodily caufes or 

 difpofitions; but meerely upon the quality and force of thole 

 fpirituall ju Jgmems.- and then.it evidently /blloweth, that if 

 if there were any fuch a&ion in the next life, the pure foule 

 wouM apply it ielfe thereunto,according to the proportion 

 of her jadgements,and as they are graduated and qualified* 

 It is true,thereijnofuch action remaining in the next life ; 

 yet neverthelefle there ramaineth ?'n the ibule a diipofition 

 and a promptitude to fueh action; and if we will frame a right 

 apprehenfion of a feperated fbule, we muft conceit her to be 

 of fuch a nsture(for then all is nature with her , as hereafter 

 we (hall difcoHrfe.)as if (he were a thing made for action in 

 that proportion and efficacity,whieh the quartering of her bv 

 th : s variety of judgements doth afford; that is that fiie is^ fo 

 muc^ tne more fit for oce aftion then for another, (were flie 

 to proceed to aftion,) as the judgment of the goodneiTe of 

 one of thefe adions is rtronger in her, then the jadgment of 

 the others goodnefle,which is in eff;d,by how much the one 

 is more cultivated then the other. And out of this we may 

 conclude,that what motions do follow in a man, out of diC 

 courfe.the like will in a feperated fonle,fbllow out of fcer fpi- 

 rituall judgments. Sothat as he is joyedjfhedo pofTelfehis 

 Weired good; and is difcontented anddifpleafed,ifhe mifle of 

 it and feizeth greedily upon it when it is prefent to him,and 

 then cleaveth faft untoit,and whiles he wameth it, no other 

 good affefteth hirn^ut he is ftill longing after that Mafic r.i 

 wifh ofhis heart : the like in every regard.but much more ve- 

 hement ly.be falleth unto a feperated feule. So that in fine (he 

 will be happy, or miferable, according as (he hath built up ner 

 felfe,br her fpirituall judgments and affections in this life. If 

 knowledge and intellectual oHjefts be the good < fhe thirfieth 

 after, what can be happier then (he, when ihc poirefleth th e 



