A85327:68
Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of…Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of…
Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.
London: printed for John Wright, 1650
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Pres. Well, to the intent that I may clear these things unto you, I pray you first of all to consider, that Moses telleth us Gen. 2. 7. That after the Lord had formed mans body of the dust of the earth, he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, whereby you may perceive that the soul is of a spiritual nature, and an uncorruptible substance, and not a body. In the creation of the soul, saith a learned Author, The almighty 1made a blast, not of his own nature, nor of his Creature the Air, but even of nothing, and so new in the ordinary generation of man, the soul is placed in the body, not by virtue of nature, it is not begotten or produced by nature, but properly and peculiarly by the special working of God; so that although the soul liveth and dwelleth in the body, sustaining and moving it; yet it is a certain substance several from the body; and though the body hath no life in it self, and therefore cannot subsist without the soul, yet can the soul subsist and live, and preserve it self in its substance, after that it is separated from the body; the soul is therefore so far from dying, and corrupting with the body, that it keepeth it alive and uncorrupt whilst it is in the body, and doth live, move and understand, after that it is out of the body, and ⟨p. 36⟩though you see nothing but the body, yet by the doing of the soul, you may perceive there is a soul, and what the soul is; for the soul being of a spiritual nature, as aforesaid, and not a bodily, we cannot see it in its own substance or nature, nor have any knowledge thereof, but by the testimony of the word, and by the effects thereof.
Pres. Well, to the intent that I may clear these things unto you, I pray you first of all to consider, that Moses telleth us Gen. 2. 7. That after the Lord had formed mans body of the dust of the earth, he breathed into his nostrils the brtath of life, whereby you may perceive that the soul is of a spirituall nature, and an uncorruptible substance, and not a body. In the creation of the soul, saith a learned Author, The almighty 1made a blast, not of his owne nature, nor of his Creature the Aire, but even of nothing, and so new in the ordinary generation of man, the soul is placed in the body, not by vertue of nature, it is not begotten or produced by nature, but properly and peculiarly by the special working of God; so that although the soul liveth and dwelleth in the body, sustaining and moving it; yet it is a certaine substance severall from the body; and though the body hath no life in it selfe, and therefore cannot subsist without the soule, yet can the soul subsist and live, and preserve it selfe in its substance, after that it is separated from the body; the soule is therefore so far from dying, and corrupting with the body, that it keepeth it alive and uncorrupt whilst it is in the body, and doth live, move and understand, after that it is out of the body, and