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The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to…
The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ to be received by Him / prepared for the funerals of Mary the widow first of Francis Charlton Esq. and after of Thomas Hanmer, Esq., and partly preached at St. Mary Magdalens Church in Milk-Street, London, and now, at the desire of her daughter, reprinted by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by B. Griffin for B. Simmons, 1682
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.
The third is not questioned by any that knoweth himself to be a Man: But that we may understand it and the rest, we must consider what the Word [Spirit] doth here signify. By [Spirit] here can be meant nothing but the Rational Soul, which is the principal constitutive part of the man. For, though the word do sometime signify the Wind or Breath, and sometime the moral and intellectual Qualifications, and have divers other senses, I need not stay to prove that it is not here so taken: Stephen ⟨p. 7⟩prayeth not to Christ to receive his Breath, his Graces, or the Holy Ghost; but to receive his Rational immortal Soul.
The third is not questioned by any that knoweth himself to be a Man: But that we may understand it and the rest, we must consider what the Word [Spirit] doth here signifie. By [Spirit] here can be meant nothing but the Rational Soul, which is the principal constitutive part of the man. For, though the word do sometime signifie the Wind or Breath, and sometime the moral and intellectual Qualifications, and have divers other senses, I need not stay to prove that it is not here so taken: Stephen ⟨p. 7⟩prayeth not to Christ to receive his Breath, his Graces, or the Holy Ghost; but to receive his Rational immortal Soul.
It is not only the Soul, but God himself, that is called [a Spirit]: And though the Name be fetched from lower things, that is because that as we have no adequate positive conception of God or Spirits, so we can have no adequate proper names for them, but must take up with borrowed Names, as answerable to our Notions.
It is not only the Soul, but God himself, that is called [a Spirit]: And though the Name be fetch'd from lower things, that is because that as we have no adequate positive conception of God or Spirits, so we can have no adequate proper names for them, but must take up with borrowed Names, as answerable to our Notions.