Resp. It is contrary to the Nature of a Spirit to have a Corporeal Substance; Luke 24.•9. Handle me, and see me, for a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have. Bodily Members are ascribed to God, not properly, but metaphorically, and in a borrowed sense; he is only set out to our Capacity: By the right Hand of the Lord is meant his Power; by the Eyes of the Lord are meant his Wisdom. Now that God is a Spirit, and is not capable of Bodily Shape or Substance, probatur. 1. A Body is visible, but God is invisible, Therefore he is a Spirit, 1 Tim. 6.16. whom no man hath seen, nor can see, not by an Eye of sense. 2. A Body is terminated, can be but in one place at once; but God is ubique, in all places at once, Therefore he is a Spirit, Psal. 139.7, 8. God's Centre is every where, and his Circumference is no where*. 3. A Body being compounded of integral Parts, may be dissolved; Quicquid divisibile est corruptibile, but the God-head is not capable of dissolution; he can have no End from whom all things have their Beginning. So that it clearly appears God is a Spirit, which adds to the Perfection of his Nature.
Resp. It is contrary to the Nature of a Spirit to have a Corporeal Substance; Luke 24.•9. Handle me, and see me, for a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have. Bodily Members are ascribed to God, not properly, but metaphorically, and in a borrowed sence; he is only set out to our Capacity: By the right Hand of the Lord is meant his Power; by the Eyes of the Lord are meant his Wisdom. Now that God is a Spirit, and is not capable of Bodily Shape or Substance, probatur. 1. A Body is visible, but God is invisible, Therefore he is a Spirit, 1 Tim. 6.16. whom no man hath seen, nor can see, not by an Eye of sence. 2. A Body is terminated, can be but in one place at once; but God is ubique, in all places at once, Therefore he is a Spirit, Psal. 139.7, 8. God's Center is every where, and his Circumference is no where*. 3. A Body being compounded of integral Parts, may be dissolved; Quicquid divisibile est corruptibile, but the God-head is not capable of dissolution; he can have no End from whom all things have their Beginning. So that it clearly appears God is a Spirit, which adds to the Perfection of his Nature.
- *Jovis omnia pl•na—Iovis omnia pl•na—
