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he Lord G formed men of the dual, and breathed into nostrils the brcalb of Ufc, or tbc spirit of livei, and he becaiitt^ a living houl." The expre&itio " the Lord God formed man of the duftt," i« equ valent to the expression used of the creatureii, th the Lord God formed them out of Uic groosi both having reference to the structure of the bod aud the gift of animal life, but this other expret* siun used only cf man, that he breathed into his nostrils tlie spirit of lives, and be became a Unng soul, eignities something which was not bettowed upon the creatures, but derived from an imm diate inspiration of the Almighty- This part, peraddcd lo the being of man by tbc breathing God, is in the original " the spirit of lives," and denotes theate other forms of exi&lence which ami bath beyond every creature under heaven, and urtlich seemeth to us to be threefold ; the under standing which di&cour&eth over things submitted to the senses, and formeth them into historical and ncientific knowledge; the reason wbtch dit- couraelli over ihings that have no existence in the sense, bui ore presented to it by the congcience or will ; and the conscience, or moral will, whic. disccrneth the relations of right and wron aiwl presidcth over moral life. There arc tb fore to be discerned in man an animal frame nnd an ;ini;nul ]ift\ which he had iii conimoa with the other animals. And next to that thei« is bis understanding, which is their instiDCt, elevated ftnd extended, and tnfi&itolj roagni but agreeing with their inatinct in Uiia, that the red v.] THE CUEISS A« TO fiOOlLY LAAOUU. 1027 arc both coDversant ^ith the visible world. Then Uiere i» the rational life* or the purr inteltecl - whose operalionstirti tu the reaftou, aoddi^pend on the spirit, not on outward thing's ; and there i« the niorftl or spiritual will, which is €vcr endeavouring to represent it^lf in the infinite forms of the reason: this is the life of the soul. Of which two, reason and will, the lower creatures have not the faintest re«emb)ance. The theory of life which hath of late begun to b« tauf^ht in our medical schools, i^ »o accordant with this account of man's formation, that I can- not help making a reflection upon it as I proceed. Formerly, in trcuting uf iimn, uiid ev^n still in the French schools, the phy&iologi&ls were wont to compare him in whole with ilic lower animalfl; and llclvetius hath found the chief cause of his excellence to consist in the superior form of his hand, and other instruments of sensation. And tliis found itfi way in