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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. What do you mean when you say God is a Spirit?
Resp. By Spirit, I mean, God is an Immaterial Substance, of a pure, subtle, unmixed Essence, not compounded of Body and Soul, without all Extension of Parts. The Body is a dreggish Thing; The more Spiritual God's Essence is, the more Noble and Excellent. The Spirits are the more refined part of the Wine.
Resp. By Spirit, I mean, God is an Immaterial Substance, of a pure, subtil, unmixed Essence, not compounded of Body and Soul, without all Extension of Parts. The Body is a dreggish Thing; The more Spiritual God's Essence is, the more Noble and Excellent. The Spirits are the more refined part of the Wine.
Quest. Wherein doth God differ from other Spirits?
1. The Angels are Spirits.