But the opinion that such spirits were incorporeal, or immaterial, could never enter into the mind of any man by nature; because, though men may put together words of contradictory signification, as “spirit,” and “incorporeal,” yet they can never have the imagination of anything answering to them: and therefore, men that by their own meditation arrive to the acknowledgment of one infinite, omnipotent, and eternal God, chose rather to confess He is incomprehensible, and above their understanding, than to define His nature by “spirit incorporeal,” and then confess their definition to be unintelligible; or, if they give Him such a title, it is not “dogmatically” with intention to make the divine nature understood; but “piously,” to honour him with attributes, of significations as remote as they can from the grossness of bodies visible.
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