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Life eternalLife eternall
Life eternal or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes Delivered in XVIII. sermons. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, D. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Life eternall or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes Delivered in XVIII. sermons. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, D. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inne.
London: printed by Richard, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Besides, this is to be added; though God be said to be a spirit, yet he is not properly a spirit as Angels are; for an Angel is a creature, and though it want a body, and be a spirit, yet it is a created substance: but yet because that is nearest to the pure, and incomprehensible nature of God, therefore he calls himself a spirit, as Angels are, and our souls are.
1Besides, this is to be added; though God bee said to be a spirit, yet he is not properly a spirit as Angells are; for an Angell is a creature, and though it want a body, and be a spirit, yet it is a created substance: but yet because that is neerest to the pure, and incomprehensible nature of God, therefore he calls himselfe a spirit, as Angells are, and our soules are.
- 1What kind of spirit.What kinde of spirit.
1 It is proper to a Spirit to be invisible, impalpable, ⟨p. 3⟩