. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. true divine Reft and preciousSabbath of the Soul. A compendious rehearfal of the whole Allegory of the Six days Creation, E are now come to iht Moral Cabbala, which I do notcall Moral in that low fenfe the generality of menunderftand Morality: For the procefs and growth,as likewife the failing and decay, of the divine Life,is very intelligibly fet forth in this prefent Cabbala,But I call it Moral, in counter-diftindion to philo-fophical or Phyfical 5 as Philo alfo ufes this termeMoral in divine matters. As when he fpeaks ofL(g
. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. true divine Reft and preciousSabbath of the Soul. A compendious rehearfal of the whole Allegory of the Six days Creation, E are now come to iht Moral Cabbala, which I do notcall Moral in that low fenfe the generality of menunderftand Morality: For the procefs and growth,as likewife the failing and decay, of the divine Life,is very intelligibly fet forth in this prefent Cabbala,But I call it Moral, in counter-diftindion to philo-fophical or Phyfical 5 as Philo alfo ufes this termeMoral in divine matters. As when he fpeaks ofL( Gods breathing into Adam the breath of Life, «; irJ ©g^cwTroj, faith he,^•* Ifjimti tpumyjui ^ irSriows, Cod breathes into AdamV face PhyftcaSy and Morally : Phifically, by placing there the Senfes, viz. in the Head-, Morally,by injpiring his IntelleB with divine knowledge, which is the highefl Facultyof the Sottl^ at the Head is the chief part of the Body. Wherefore by Mora-lity, I undcrftand here divine Morality, fuch as is ingendred in the Soul by. Chap. J. The Defence of the Moral Cahha-h. 155 by the operations of the holy Spirit, that inward living Principle of allgodlinefs and (hall be the more brief in the Defence of this Ca&-ZaU, it being of it felf fo plain and fenfible to any that has the experienceof the life I defcribe 5 but to them that have it not, nothing will make itplain or any thing at all probable. A Microcosm or little World. Nothing is more ordinary or tri-vial , then to compare Man to the Univerfe, and make him a little com-pendious World of himfelf. Wherefore it was not hard to premife thatwhich may be fo eafily underftood. And the Apoftle fuppofes it, whenhe applies the Creation of Z/f^? here in this Chapter to the illuminationof the Soul, as you (hall hear hereafter. Verf. 2. Bat that which is Animal or Natural of crates firj}. Accordin<yto that of the Apoftle, That which is Spiritual is not pfi , hut that which Cor. 1
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