And first there are the words of Solomon ( Eccles. 12:7), “Then shall the dust return to dust, as it was, and the spirit shall return to God that gave it.” Which may bear well enough, if there be no other text directly against it, this interpretation that God only knows, but man not, what becomes of a man’s spirit when he expireth; and the same Solomon, in the same book (3:20⁠–⁠21), delivereth the same sentence in the same sense I have given it. His words are: “All go” (man and beast) “to the same place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; who knoweth that the spirit of man goeth upward, and that the spirit of the beast goeth downward to the earth?” That is, none knows but God; nor is it an unusual phrase to say of things we understand not, “God knows what,” and “God knows where.” That of ( Gen. 5:24) “Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him”; which is expounded ( Heb.