The Spirit of Man, Or, Some Meditations (by Way of Essay) on the Sense of That Scripture.

by Charles Morton

"AS we have all manner of Demonstrations, to assure us, of what Elihu asserted when he said, There is a Spirit in man; so we have the Eternal Spirit of God Himself, by the Pen of His Inspired Solomon, Recommending this Blessed Oracle of Wisdom unto us, A man of Understanding is of an Excellent Spirit. Indeed, we have no Understanding till, believing that we have within us, a Spirit Excellent for the first Author and Nature of it, we Endeavour above all things to make that Spirit become yet more Excellent, by the Alterations of a New Birth upon it. The Woful and Rueful Degeneracy, which has befallen the Spirit of Man, by his Fall into Sin, is a matter of the most bleeding Lamentations, unto every Spirit that in the least measure begins to Awaken out of that Lamentable Fall. Yea, The whole Creation Groans over the vitiated Spirit of man, and sighs, How art thou Fallen, O thou Child of the Morning! Accordingly, when once the..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.

112 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2012