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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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Quest. But is it not said, That we are made Partakers of the Divine Nature?
Resp. By Divine Nature there, is meant Divine Qualities, 2 Pet. 1.4. We are made Partakers of the Divine Nature, not by Identity or Union with the Divine Essence, but by a transformation into the Divine Likeness. Thus you see how God differs from other Spirits, Angels, and Souls of Men. He is a Spirit of transcendent Excellency, the Father of Spirits.
Object. Against this Vorstius and the Anthropomorphites object, That in Scripture an Humane Shape and Figure is given to God; he is said to have Eyes and Hands?
Object. Against this Vorstius and the Anthropomorthites object, That in Scripture an Humane Shape and Figure is given to God; he is said to have Eyes and Hands?
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,