A27044:65
A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful minister of Christ, Mr. John…
A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful minister of Christ, Mr. John Corbet with his true and exemplary character / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1680
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.
Our souls would fain have more sensible perceptions of themselves, as to their substance, and their separate state? Whether they are substances utterly immaterial, how they are generated? How they subsist, and act out of the body? And how they do enjoy? How they are individuate, and yet how far one? How far one or not one with Christ, and one another? Whether ⟨p. 12⟩they are divisible in substance as continued quantities, as well as in number as quantitates discretae: What place and limits do confine them (being not infinite)? How far they have still sensation? And how they see, Praise and enjoy God? And how they converse with one another? And how far they know the things on Earth? And how their state before the Resurrection differs from what it will be after? And how far the soul will be instrumental in the raising of the Body: But all these are unutterable things.
Our souls would fain have more sensible perceptions of themselves, as to their substance, and their separate state? Whether they are substances utterly immaterial, how they are generated? How they subsist, and act out of the body? And how they do enjoy? How they are indivuate, and yet how far one? How far one or not one with Christ, and one another? Whether ⟨p. 12⟩they are divisible in substance as continued quantities, as well as in number as quantitates discretae: What place and limits do confine them (being not infinite)? How far they have still sensation? And how they see, Praise and enjoy God? And how they converse with one another? And how farre they know the things on Earth? And how their state before the Resurrection differs from what it will be after? And how far the soul will be instrumental in the raising of the Body: But all these are unutterable things.
We would fain know more of the decrees of God, and how all his acts are Eternal, and yet produce their effects in time? How they are many, and yet but one, producing divers and contrary effects. Many such things inquisitive nature would fain know which are unutterable.