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Fire
is
a
Spirit, and
fo
that
a
Spirit
is
fenf
ble, as far
as
mo-
tion,light andheat are
:
I only fay,
Ifthat
were
true, yet motion,
Light
and heat
are not
fenfed by
us
in pure
fire
;
but only
as
from
f
i
r
e
incorporate,in
air at
leaft.But the
word [S
P
I
R
I
T)
an
in-
cludeth the
formal
fpecial
notion of
it,
by
which
we
molt clearly
di!cern
it
from
a
Body,
called Matter
;
which is,
that it
is for-
mally
a
Life,
or
an
active
Nature
,
in which
is
included
the three
notions
of
Power,Force
(Vis)
and
Inclination
;
and
all
together
may be called
A
virtue
:
So
that
to be
a Pure
fiibftance
tranfcen-
ding
fenfe,
not
accidentally
having,
but
naturally
being,
an
Acilive
vital
virtue,
is
to
beA
SPIRIT.
2.
But
though this
formal
notion
be included
in
the word
SP
I
R
I
T,
yet
it
is
of
dillinit
Conception
from
Ef
fence
and
Subftance.
And
this
One
formal
Virtue in
G
O
D
is
wonderfully,
yet
certainly,
Three
m
One,
that
is,
i.
Vital
arrive Virtue.'
2'.
In-
telleétiveVirtue.
3.
Volitive
or
willing
Virtue.
This
f
iritual
Virtue
is
not an Accident in
God, but
his
Effence;
not
his
Effence
as
E
ffence,
but
his
E
/fence
in its
formal
or
fpecifick
notion,as di-
ftintt
from
other
Effences.
It
is
One
fubflantially
and
formally
:
It
is
Three
as
Altive
on
a
Three
-fold
Objeet,
or
by
connotati-
on
of
the
Objelt,
at
the
leaft. All
this
we
certainly gather
from our
Souls,
which are Gods Image
(of
which
anon)
:
And
yet the word
[Spirit
i
underffanding,
will and
Life
of
Man fignifie
that which
is
not at
all
of
the
fame kind
or
port,
with that which
the
fame
words
fignifie
of
God
:
But
yet there
is
in
us
an
image
of
hat
is
in God.
And when
I
fpeak
of
Arrive Virtue,
it
muff
be remembred
that
it
is
another
property
of
Spirit
that
[it
is
not
Paljive
from
a
Aody
or any inferior
nature
:
For
all
Anion
proceedeth order-
ly
from
the
firft Active
Caure,
and
fo
down
:
God
worketh upon
all
things
:
An intelleltual
Spirit
can
operate
on
a
fenfitive,
and
that on
a
Vegetative, and
that (as the
refl.)
on Pallive
matter or
Bodies;
but not
contrarily.
z. Though we are
fain
to
ufe
names
of
God, which
lignifie
but
Modes
or Qualities in men, and
fo
mention
Powerful,
zaifi
and good;
yet thefe in God are his very Efience,
under the
no-
tion
of
Modal
perfeltion.
4.
As
we
think
of
creatures
in
refpeß of
Quantity and
Ve-
frees
as
well
as
Rind,
fo
we
are
fain
to mention
Gods
Attributes
:
Anil I
comprehend
a
multitude in
one,
which
is Inflnitenefs
or
Perfaion,
which have
the
fame
fignification, faving
that
one
foundetli
better
as
applied
to
E
frence,
and
the other
as
to
u
lity.
When I
fay
that
God
is
[Infinite,]
it refpelteth,
z.
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