Why the Soule is United to the Body.
This substance, and this spirit of God's owne making, Is in the body plact, and planted heere; "That both of God, and of the world partaking, "Of all that is, Man might the image beare.
God first made angels bodilesse, pure minds, Then other things, which mindlesse bodies be; Last, He made Man, th' horizon 'twixt both kinds, In whom we doe the World's abridgement see.[117]
Besides, this World below did need one wight, Which might thereof distinguish euery part; Make vse thereof, and take therein delight, And order things with industry and art:
Which also God might in His works admire, And here beneath, yeeld Him both praier and praise; As there, aboue, the holy angels quire Doth spread His glory[118] with spirituall layes.
Lastly, the bruite, unreasonable wights, Did want a visible king on[119] them to raigne: And God, Himselfe thus to the World vnites, That so the World might endlesse blisse obtaine.
In what manner the Soule is united to the Body.
"But how shall we this union well expresse?
Nought ties the soule; her subtiltie is such
She moues the bodie, which she doth possesse,
Yet no part toucheth, but by Vertue's touch.
Then dwels shee not therein as in a tent,
Nor as a pilot in his ship doth sit;
Nor as the spider in his[120] web is pent;
Nor as the waxe retaines the print in it;
Nor as a vessell water doth containe;
Nor as one liquor in another shed;
Nor as the heat doth in the fire remaine;
Nor as a voice throughout the ayre is spread: