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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.
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.
Resp. We must distinguish of Spirits. 1. The Angels are created, God is a Spirit uncreate. 2. The Angels are Spirits, but are finite, and capable of being annihilated. The same Power which made them is able to reduce them to their first Nothing: but God is an infinite Spirit. 3. The Angels are confined Spirits, they cannot be in duobus locis simul, they are confined to a place: but God is an immense Spirit, and cannot be confined, being in all places at once. 4. The Angels, though they are Spirits, yet they are but ministering Spirits,