any thing spirituall. Though the former is
most properly, at least more eminently spirituall. And whether any thing
be after that way spirituall saving the Divinitie, there is reason to
doubt. For what is entirely omnipresent in a sphear, whose diametre is
but three feet, I see not, why (that in the circumference being as fresh
and entire as that in the centre) it should stop there and not proceed
even _in infinitum_, if the circumference be still as fresh and entire
as the centre. But I define nothing.

S

_Spermaticall._ It belongs properly to Plants, but is transferred also
to the Plasticall power in Animalls, I enlarge it to all magnetick power
whatsoever that doth immediately rule and actuate any body. For all
magnetick power is founded in _Physis_, and in reference to her, this
world is but one great Plant, (one +logos spermatikos+ giving it shape
and corporeall life) as in reference to _Psyche_, one happy and holy
Animall.

_Spirit._ Sometimes it signifieth the soul, othersometime, the naturall
spirits in a mans body, which are _Vinculum animae & corporis_, and the
souls vehicle: Sometimes life. See _Reduplicative_.

_Soul._ When I speak of mans Soul, I understand that which _Moses_ saith
was inspired into the body, (fitted out and made of earth) by God,
Genes. 2. which is not that impeccable spirit that cannot sinne; but the
very same that the Platonists call +psuche+, a middle essence betwixt
that which they call +nous+ (and we would in the Christian language call
+pneuma+) and the life of the body which is +eidolon psuches+, a kind of
an umbratil vitalitie, that the soul imparts to the bodie in the
enlivening of it: That and the body together, we Christians would call
+sarx+, and the suggestions of it, especially in its corrupt estate,
+phronema sarkos+. And that which God inspired into _Adam_ was no more
then +psuche+, the soul, not the spirit, though it be called #nishmat
chayim# _Spiraculum vitae_; is plain out of the text; because it made man
but become a living soul, #nefesh chai#. But you will say, he was a dead
soul before, and this was the spirit of life, yea the spirit of God, the
life of the soul that was breathed into him.

But if #chai# implie such a life and spirit, you must acknowledge the
same to be also in the most stupid of all living creatures, even the
fishes (whose soul is but as salt to keep them from stinking, as Philo
speaks) for they are said to be #nishmat chayim# chap. 1.