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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.
1 It is proper to a Spirit to be invisible, impalpable, ⟨p. 3⟩not to be discerned by any sense. Therefore Christ bids his Disciples to feel him: Behold my hands, and my feet (saith he) that it is I my self, handle, and see;1 for a Spirit hath not flesh and bones as I have. A Spirit is that which is drawn from the sight of any corporeal sense whatsoever, and in this sense God is called a Spirit, because he is invisible: and therefore Moses is said to see him that is invisible, not by any bodily eye, but by the eye of faith.
1 It is proper to a Spirit to be invisible, impalpable, ⟨p. 3⟩not to bee discerned by any sense. Therfore Christ bids his Disciples to feele him: Behold my hands, and my feete (saith he) that it is I my selfe, handle, and see;1 for a Spirit hath not flesh and bones as I have. A Spirit is that which is drawn from the sight of any corporeall sense whatsoever, and in this sense God is called a Spirit, because he is invisible: and therefore Moses is said to see him that is invisible, not by any bodily eye, but by the eye of faith.
2, Every Spirit moves it self, and other things also: The body is but an earthy piece, that is not able to stir it self at all, as you see it is when the soul is gone out of it, it is the spirit, that both moves it self, and carries the body up and down where it listeth, and it moves it self with all speed, and agility, because it finds no resistance. Bodies, beside their elementary motion upward and downward, have no voluntary motion, they cannot move themselves whither they will, as spirits do; And this I gather out of Joh 3.8. the Holy Ghost is compared to the wind,