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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. Though God be in all places, in the Heart of a Sinner by his Inspection, and in Hell by his Justice, yet he doth not mingle with that Impurity, or receive the least tincture of Evil: Divina natura non est immista rebus aut sordibus inquinata, Aug. No more then the Sun shining on a Dunghill is defiled, or its Beauty spotted; or then Christ going among Sinners was defiled, his Godhead was a sufficient Antidote against Infection.
Resp. Though God be in all places, in the Heart of a Sinner by his Inspection, and in Hell by his Justice, yet he doth not mingle with that Impurity, or receive the least tincture of Evil: Divina natura non est immista rebus aut sordibus inquinata, Aug. No more then the Sun shining on a Dunghil is defiled, or its Beauty spotted; or then Christ going among Sinners was defiled, his Godhead was a sufficient Antidote against Infection.
Reason why God must needs be Infinite in all places at once, not only in regard of the Simplicity and Purity of his Nature, but in regard of his Power, which being so glorious who can set him Bounds? or prescribe him a Circuit to walk in? 'Tis as if the Drop should go to limit the Ocean, or the Star to set the Sun its Bounds.
Use 1. It condemns the Papists who would make more things Infinite then the Godhead, they hold that Christ's Body is in many places at once, that it is in Heaven and in the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament: Though Christ as he is God is Infinite, and in all places at once, yet as Man he is not; Christ when he was on Earth his Manhood was not in Heaven, though his Godhead was; and now he is in Heaven his Manhood is not on Earth though his Godhead be: Heb. 10.5. 'tis spoken of Christ, A body hast thou prepared me. This Body cannot be in all places at once, for then it is no more a Body, but a Spirit; Christ's Body in Heaven though it be Glorified, it is not Deified; it is not Infinite, for so it must be if it be both in Heaven and in the Bread and Wine by Transubstantiation.