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And for any one to Teach, (as the Monster of Malmesbury has been permitted to doe in Print,) that there is no Spirit at all, or that there is no incorporeal Substance, (two Expressions of the same Thing,) what is it but to pluck up all Religion by the Root? 'Tis publickly to set up a School of Atheism. For God (if any thing) is a Spirit; not for This reason onely, because our Apostle S. John affirms it, (whom the Hobbists will not believe;) but for this other reason also, (which even our Hobbists cannot but yield to,) that, supposing a God there is, (or that 'tis but possible for him to be,) He must be Infinite, and Indivisible; and yet, we know, He can be neither, if He is any way Corporeal. For All Corporeal things have Parts, and so by consequence are divisible, and so by consequence are finite. And for God to be finite, or divisible, is for God not to be God; |
And for any one to Teach, (as the Monster of Malmesbury has been permitted to do in Print,) that there is no Spirit At all, or that there is no incorporeal Substance, (two Expressions of the same Thing,) what is it but to pluck up all Religion by the Root? It's publicly to Set up a School of Atheism. For God (if any thing) is a Spirit; not for This reason only, Because our Apostle S. John affirms it, (whom the Hobbists will not believe;) but for this other reason also, (which even our Hobbists cannot but yield to,) that, supposing a God there is, (or that it's but possible for him to be,) He must be Infinite, and Indivisible; and yet, we know, He can be neither, if He is any Way Corporeal. For All Corporeal things have Parts, and so by consequence Are divisible, and so by consequence Are finite. And for God to be finite, or divisible, is for God not to be God; |
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