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statement made in my opening remarks, that the language of 
the New Testament, though penned in many of its parts by un- 
learned men, has yet a consistency and philosophical accuracy 
about it, that we do not find elsewhere, m regard to mans 
nature. The Fathers stand high with me as theologians and 
guardians of the faith, but in their use of the terms Pneuma 
and Psyche they fall much below the New Testament m point 
of consistency and accuracy. With us we have come to speak 
of man in a twofold sense, as having soul and body ; and the 
common people would not very readily understand an accurate 
preacher or writer who should speak of the soul as mortal and 
perishable, yet as a matter of Scripture statement, I think, it 
is so. 
The Chairman. — This morning I received a letter from Mr. Gosse, one of 
our Vice-Presidents ; it contains some brief comments upon Mr. English s 
paper, and, with your permission, I will read them 
“ The Kev. W. W. English, in this Essay, appears to look on ‘Spirit, Soul, 
and Body/ as three essential constituents of human nature. I venture to 
think, however, that the testimony of the New Testament is not in accord- 
ance with this opinion. Setting apart the multitudinous occurrences of the 
word Uvsvfia and its derivatives, which refer to the Third Person 0 ® 
Blessed Godhead ; those in which evil spirits are clearly meant ; those which 
signify a moral condition or temper (as Eom. xi. 8 ; 2 Cor. xii. 18, cj ; 
and a few, in which the word seems to signify a dispensation or pnase o- 
the Divine economy (as 2 Cor. iii. 6, 8) ;-there remain many which mam- 
festly o-lance at a constituent principle of man, so designated. u , m a i 
these cases * if carefully examined,- it will be found, I think, that it is re- 
newed man, converted man, man ‘ passed from death unto life, who is spo 
of It is plain, from the Divine testimony, that a godly man is no a man 
in the flesh, improved for the flesh is incorrigible ; it not only is not 
subject to the law of God but it ‘ cannot he ’ (Eom. viii. 7) ; teis a new 
creation, m « ring’ (2 Cor. v. 17). Now, what it is that is created 
anew ’ when such a change occurs, is shown in that grand revelation, i Cor. 
XV., where alone in the Holy Scriptures the subject under consideration is a. 
all technically treated. Here the body which true believers (and surely o 
no others is the Apostle speaking, in the whole argmnent) p^ess rn ^ 
present mortal state, is called sonlish “ ® 
distinguished from that body which they shall acquire a the 'ast trump, 
which is called wevyarubv , -a spiritual (or spmtish) body. The tm 
mer is expressly said to be derived from Adam, who was made a living + X , 
* In Luke via. 55 , where it is stated ^f^f^TqniXt^ 
spirit (to 7 rvtvna avrr]Q) came again , tne wora I 1 u 
“breath.” — P. H. G. 
