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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
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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, Hebr. 1.14. Though they are Spirits, yet they are Servants. God is [Greek or Hebrew], a Super-excellent Spirit, the Father of Spirits, Hebr. 12.9.
Resp. We must distinguish of Spirits. 1. The Angels are created, God is a Spirit uncreate. 2. The Angels are Spirits, but are finate, 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 ministring Spirits, Hebr. 1.14. Though they are Spirits, yet they are Servants. God is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Super-excellent Spirit, the Father of Spirits, Hebr. 12.9.
2. The Soul is a Spirit. Eccles. 12.7. The Spirit shall return unto God that gave it.