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| spirit : spirit god: god Complete text of 61126375:This opinion of Inspiration, called commonly, Private spirit , begins very often, from some lucky finding of an Errour generally held by others; and not knowing, or not remembring, by what conduct of reason, they came to so singular a truth, (as they think it, though it be many times an untruth they light on,) they presently admire themselves; as being in the speciall grace of god Almighty, who hath revealed the same to them supernaturally, by his spirit Complete text of 61126392:For neither Moses, nor Abraham pretended to Prophecy by possession of a spirit ; but from the voyce of God; or by a Vision or Dream: Nor is there any thing in his Law, Morall, or Ceremoniall, by which they were taught, there was any such Enthusiasme; or any Possession Complete text of 61126397:Elders, the spirit of god (taking it for the substance of god ) is not divided Complete text of 61126398:The Scriptures by the spirit of god in man, mean a mans spirit , enclined to Godlinesse Complete text of 61126664:But the opinion that such Spirits were Incorporeall, or Immateriall, could never enter into the mind of any man by nature; because, though men may put together words of contradictory signification, as spirit , and Incorporeall; yet they can never have the imagination of any thing answering to them: And therefore, men that by their own meditation, arrive to the acknowledgement of one Infinite, Omnipotent, and Eternall god , choose rather to confesse he is Incomprehensible, and above their understanding; than to define his Nature By spirit Incorporeall, and then Confesse 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 grossenesse of Bodies Visible Complete text of 61126677:The Absurd Opinion Of Gentilisme And for that part of Religion, which consisteth in opinions concerning the nature of Powers Invisible, there is almost nothing that has a name, that has not been esteemed amongst the Gentiles, in one place or another, a god , or Divell; or by their Poets feigned to be inanimated, inhabited, or possessed by some spirit or other Complete text of 61126688:The Designes Of The Authors Of The Religion Of The Heathen And therefore the first Founders, and Legislators of Common-wealths amongst the Gentiles, whose ends were only to keep the people in obedience, and peace, have in all places taken care; First, to imprint in their minds a beliefe, that those precepts which they gave concerning Religion, might not be thought to proceed from their own device, but from the dictates of some god , or other spirit ; or else that they themselves were of a higher nature than mere mortalls, that their Lawes might the more easily be received: So Numa Pompilius pretended to receive the Ceremonies he instituted amongst the Romans, from the Nymph Egeria: and the first King and founder of the Kingdome of Peru, pretended himselfe and his wife to be the children of the Sunne: and Mahomet, to set up his new Religion, pretended to have conferences with the Holy Ghost, in forme of a Dove Complete text of 61128717:Their Scope And although these Books were written by divers men, yet it is manifest the Writers were all indued with one and the same spirit , in that they conspire to one and the same end, which is the setting forth of the Rights of the Kingdome of god , the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Complete text of 61128754:But for metaphoricall significations, there be many: for sometimes it is taken for Disposition or Inclination of the mind; as when for the disposition to controwl the sayings of other men, we say, A spirit Contradiction; For A Disposition to Uncleannesse, An Unclean Spirit; for Perversenesse, A Froward spirit ; for Sullennesse, A Dumb Spirit, and for Inclination To Godlinesse, And Gods Service, the spirit of god : sometimes for any eminent ability, or extraordinary passion, or disease of the mind, as when Great Wisdome is called the spirit Of Wisdome; and Mad Men are said to be Possessed With A spirit Complete text of 61128755:Other signification of spirit I find no where any; and where none of these can satisfie the sense of that word in Scripture, the place falleth not under humane Understanding; and our Faith therein consisteth not in our Opinion, but in our Submission; as in all places where god is said to be a spirit ; or where by the spirit of god , is meant god himselfe Complete text of 61128757:spirit Of god Taken In The Scripture Sometimes For A Wind, Or Breath Gen Complete text of 61128760:"The spirit of god moved upon the face of the Waters Complete text of 61128761:" Here if by the spirit of god be meant god himself, then is Motion attributed to god , and consequently Place, which are intelligible only of Bodies, and not of substances incorporeall; and so the place is above our understanding, that can conceive nothing moved that changes not place, or that has not dimension; and whatsoever has dimension, is Body Complete text of 61128765:Where when the earth was covered with Waters, as in the beginning, God intending to abate them, and again to discover the dry land, useth like words, "I will bring my spirit upon the Earth, and the waters shall be diminished:" in which place by spirit is understood a Wind, (that is an Aire or spirit Moved,) which might be called (as in the former place) the spirit of god , because it was Gods Work Complete text of 61128769:Pharaoh calleth the Wisdome of Joseph, the spirit of god Complete text of 61128770:For Joseph having advised him to look out a wise and discreet man, and to set him over the land of Egypt, he saith thus, "Can we find such a man as this is, in whom is the spirit of god ?" and Exod Complete text of 61128773:"Thou shalt speak (saith god ) to all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of Wisdome, to make Aaron Garments, to consecrate him Complete text of 61128774:" Where extraordinary Understanding, though but in making Garments, as being the Gift of god , is called the spirit of god Complete text of 61128784:Thirdly, For Extraordinary Affections In the Book of Judges, an extraordinary Zeal, and Courage in the defence of Gods people, is called the spirit of god ; as when it excited Othoniel, Gideon, Jeptha, and Samson to deliver them from servitude, Judg Complete text of 61128798:) that "The spirit of god came upon Saul, and his Anger (or, as it is in the Latine, His Fury) was kindled greatly Complete text of 61128800:In like manner by the spirit of god , that came upon Saul, when hee was amongst the Prophets that praised god in Songs, and Musick (1 Sam Complete text of 61128807:In the same manner it appeareth, in the Books of the Prophets, that though they spake by the spirit of god , that is to say, by a speciall grace of Prediction; yet their knowledge of the future, was not by a Ghost within them, but by some supernaturall Dream or Vision Complete text of 61128814:) "as long as the spirit of god is in my nostrils;" is no more then to say, "as long as I live Complete text of 61128826:"I will take (saith god ) of the Spirit, which is upon thee, and will put it upon them, and they shall bear the burthen of the people with thee;" that is, upon the seventy Elders: whereupon two of the seventy are said to prophecy in the campe; of whom some complained, and Joshua desired Moses to forbid them; which Moses would not doe Complete text of 61128838:) "Hereby you shall know the spirit of god ; Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of god ;" by which is meant the Spirit of unfained Christianity, or Submission to that main Article of Christian faith, that Jesus is the Christ; which cannot be interpreted of a Ghost Complete text of 61128847:"of the Holy Spirit",) may be understood, for Zeal to doe the work for which hee was sent by god the Father: but to interpret it of a Ghost, is to say, that God himselfe (for so our Saviour was,) was filled with god ; which is very unproper, and unsignificant Complete text of 61128865:That they are Spirits, is often repeated: but by the name of Spirit, is signified both in Scripture, and vulgarly, both amongst Jews, and Gentiles, sometimes thin Bodies; as the Aire, the Wind, the Spirits Vitall, and Animall, of living creatures; and sometimes the Images that rise in the fancy in Dreams, and Visions; which are not reall Substances, but accidents of the brain; yet when god raiseth them supernaturally, to signifie his Will, they are not unproperly termed Gods Messengers, that is to say, his Angels Complete text of 61128866:And as the Gentiles did vulgarly conceive the Imagery of the brain, for things really subsistent without them, and not dependent on the fancy; and out of them framed their opinions of Daemons, Good and Evill; which because they seemed to subsist really, they called Substances; and because they could not feel them with their hands, Incorporeall: so also the Jews upon the same ground, without any thing in the Old Testament that constrained them thereunto, had generally an opinion, (except the sect of the Sadduces,) that those apparitions (which it pleased god sometimes to produce in the fancie of men, for his own service, and therefore called them his Angels) were substances, not dependent on the fancy, but permanent creatures of god ; whereof those which they thought were good to them, they esteemed the Angels of god , and those they thought would hurt them, they called Evill Angels, or Evill Spirits; such as was the spirit of Python, and the Spirits of Mad-men, of Lunatiques, and Epileptiques: For they esteemed such as were troubled with such diseases, Daemoniaques Complete text of 61128948:) "all Scripture is given by Inspiration from god ," speaking there of the Scripture of the Old Testament, it is an easie metaphor, to signifie, that god enclined the spirit or mind of those Writers, to write that which should be usefull, in teaching, reproving, correcting, and instructing men in the way of righteous living Complete text of 61128953:) saith, that "Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but the holy men of god spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit," by the Holy spirit , is meant the voice of god in a Dream, or Vision supernaturall, which is not Inspiration; Nor when our Saviour breathing on his Disciples, said, "Receive the Holy spirit ," was that Breath the spirit , but a sign of the spirituall graces he gave unto them Complete text of 61128954:And though it be said of many, and of our Saviour himself, that he was full of the Holy spirit ; yet that Fulnesse is not to be understood for Infusion of the substance of god , but for accumulation of his gifts, such as are the gift of sanctity of life, of tongues, and the like, whether attained supernaturally, or by study and industry; for in all cases they are the gifts of god Complete text of 61128957:) "I will powre out my spirit upon all flesh, and your Sons and your Daughters shall prophecy, your Old men shall dream Dreams, and your Young men shall see Visions," wee are not to understand it in the proper sense, as if his spirit were like water, subject to effusion, or infusion; but as if god had promised to give them Propheticall Dreams, and Visions Complete text of 61128959:In the same manner, to take Inspiration in the proper sense, or to say that Good Spirits entred into men to make them prophecy, or Evill Spirits into those that became Phrenetique, Lunatique, or Epileptique, is not to take the word in the sense of the Scripture; for the spirit there is taken for the power of god , working by causes to us unknown Complete text of 61129050:In the proper sense, that which is made Holy by Gods appropriating or separating it to his own use, is said to be Sanctified by god , as the Seventh day in the fourth Commandement; and as the Elect in the New Testament were said to bee Sanctified, when they were endued with the Spirit of godlinesse Complete text of 61129212:The woman of Endor, who is said to have had a familiar spirit , and thereby to have raised a Phantasme of Samuel, and foretold Saul his death, was not therefore a Prophetesse; for neither had she any science, whereby she could raise such a Phantasme; nor does it appear that god commanded the raising of it; but onely guided that Imposture to be a means of Sauls terror and discouragement; and by consequent, of the discomfiture, by which he fell Complete text of 61129337:To Prophets Of Perpetuall Calling, But Subordinate, god Spake By The Spirit Complete text of 61129339:Which way, though it consist in Constitution, Instruction, Education, and the occasions and invitements men have to Christian vertues; yet it is truly attributed to the operation of the spirit of god , or Holy spirit (which we in our language call the Holy Ghost): For there is no good inclination, that is not of the operation of god Complete text of 61129341:When therefore a Prophet is said to speak in the spirit , or by the spirit of god , we are to understand no more, but that he speaks according to Gods will, declared by the supreme Prophet Complete text of 61129346:And it came to passe, when the spirit rested upon them, they Prophecyed, and did not cease," By which it is manifest, first, that their Prophecying to the people, was subservient, and subordinate to the Prophecying of Moses; for that god took of the Spirit of Moses, to put upon them; so that they Prophecyed as Moses would have them: otherwise they had not been suffered to Prophecy at all Complete text of 61129349:Secondly, that the spirit of god in that place, signifieth nothing but the Mind and Disposition to obey, and assist Moses in the administration of the Government Complete text of 61129350:For if it were meant they had the substantial spirit of god ; that is, the Divine nature, inspired into them, then they had it in no lesse manner than Christ himself, in whom onely the spirit of god dwelt bodily Complete text of 61129351:It is meant therefore of the Gift and Grace of god , that guided them to co-operate with Moses; from whom their spirit was derived Complete text of 61129356:) that Moses following the counsell of Jethro his Father-in-law, did appoint Judges, and Officers over the people, such as feared god ; and of these, were those Seventy, whom god by putting upon them Moses spirit , inclined to aid Moses in the Administration of the Kingdome: and in this sense the spirit of god is said (1 Sam Complete text of 61129414:2, &c) speaking expressely of the means to examine Spirits, whether they be of god , or not; after he hath told them that there would arise false Prophets, saith thus, "Hereby know ye the spirit of god Complete text of 61129415:Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God;" that is, is approved and allowed as a Prophet of god : not that he is a godly man, or one of the Elect, for this, that he confesseth, professeth, or preacheth Jesus to be the Christ; but for that he is a Prophet avowed Complete text of 61129420:Every man therefore ought to consider who is the Soveraign Prophet; that is to say, who it is, that is Gods Viceregent on earth; and hath next under god , the Authority of Governing Christian men; and to observe for a Rule, that Doctrine, which in the name of God, hee commanded to bee taught; and thereby to examine and try out the truth of those Doctrines, which pretended Prophets with miracles, or without, shall at any time advance: and if they find it contrary to that Rule, to doe as they did, that came to Moses, and complained that there were some that Prophecyed in the Campe, whose Authority so to doe they doubted of; and leave to the Soveraign, as they did to Moses to uphold, or to forbid them, as hee should see cause; and if hee disavow them, then no more to obey their voice; or if he approve them, then to obey them, as men to whom god hath given a part of the spirit of their Soveraigne Complete text of 61129421:For when Christian men, take not their Christian Soveraign, for Gods Prophet; they must either take their owne Dreams, for the prophecy they mean to bee governed by, and the tumour of their own hearts for the spirit of god ; or they must suffer themselves to bee lead by some strange Prince; or by some of their fellow subjects, that can bewitch them, by slander of the government, into rebellion, without other miracle to confirm their calling, then sometimes an extraordinary successe, and Impunity; and by this means destroying all laws, both divine, and humane, reduce all Order, Government, and Society, to the first Chaos of Violence, and Civill warre Complete text of 61129812:No Pretence Of Private spirit Against The Religion Of Abraham From whence proceedeth another point, that it was not unlawfull for Abraham, when any of his Subjects should pretend Private Vision, or Spirit, or other Revelation from god , for the countenancing of any doctrine which Abraham should forbid, or when they followed, or adhered to any such pretender, to punish them; and consequently that it is lawfull now for the Soveraign to punish any man that shall oppose his Private spirit against the Laws: For hee hath the same place in the Common-wealth, that Abraham had in his own Family Complete text of 61129864:All Spirits Were Subordinate To The spirit Of Moses There was no Prophet in the time of Moses, nor pretender to the spirit of god , but such as Moses had approved, and Authorized Complete text of 61129865:For there were in his time but Seventy men, that are said to Prophecy by the spirit of God, and these were of all Moses his election; concerning whom god saith to Moses (Numb Complete text of 61129869:" To these god imparted his spirit ; but it was not a different spirit from that of Moses; for it is said (verse 25 Complete text of 61129870:) "God came down in a cloud, and took of the spirit that was upon Moses, and gave it to the Seventy Elders Complete text of 61129873:) by spirit , is understood the Mind; so that the sense of the place is no other than this, that god endued them with a mind conformable, and subordinate to that of Moses, that they might Prophecy, that is to say, speak to the people in Gods name, in such manner, as to set forward (as Ministers of Moses, and by his authority) such doctrine as was agreeable to Moses his doctrine Complete text of 61129877:By which it is manifest, that no Subject ought to pretend to Prophecy, or to the spirit , in opposition to the doctrine established by him, whom god hath set in the place of Moses Complete text of 61130038:For as Moses chose twelve Princes of the tribes, to govern under him; so did our Saviour choose twelve Apostles, who shall sit on twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel; And as Moses authorized Seventy Elders, to receive the spirit of god , and to Prophecy to the people, that is, (as I have said before,) to speak unto them in the name of god ; so our Saviour also ordained seventy Disciples, to preach his Kingdome, and Salvation to all Nations Complete text of 61130064:Of The Holy spirit That Fel On The Apostles And for the time between, it is manifest, that the Power Ecclesiasticall, was in the Apostles; and after them in such as were by them ordained to Preach the Gospell, and to convert men to Christianity, and to direct them that were converted in the way of Salvation; and after these the Power was delivered again to others by these ordained, and this was done by Imposition of hands upon such as were ordained; by which was signified the giving of the Holy spirit , or spirit of god , to those whom they ordained Ministers of god , to advance his Kingdome Complete text of 61130074:) by sending down upon them, a "mighty wind, and Cloven tongues of fire;" and not by Imposition of hands; as neither did god lay his hands on Moses; and his Apostles afterward, transmitted the same spirit by Imposition of hands, as Moses did to Joshua Complete text of 61130092:" Again, if it should be asked, wherein that testimony appeareth, the Answer is easie; for he hath testified the same by the miracles he wrought, first by Moses; secondly, by his Son himself; and lastly by his Apostles, that had received the Holy spirit ; all which in their times Represented the Person of god ; and either prophecyed, or preached Jesus Christ Complete text of 61130103:" In this Trinity on Earth the Unity is not of the thing; for the spirit , the Water, and the Bloud, are not the same substance, though they give the same testimony: But in the Trinity of Heaven, the Persons are the persons of one and the same god , though Represented in three different times and occasions Complete text of 61130105:As Represented by the Apostles, the Holy spirit by which they spake, is God; As Represented by his Son (that was god and Man), the Son is that God; As represented by Moses, and the High Priests, the Father, that is to say, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that god : From whence we may gather the reason why those names Father, Son, and Holy spirit in the signification of the Godhead, are never used in the Old Testament: For they are Persons, that is, they have their names from Representing; which could not be, till divers men had Represented Gods Person in ruling, or in directing under him Complete text of 61130218:He that is Baptized, is Dipped or Washed, as a sign of becomming a new man, and a loyall subject to that god , whose Person was represented in old time by Moses, and the High Priests, when he reigned over the Jews; and to Jesus Christ, his Sonne, god , and Man, that hath redeemed us, and shall in his humane nature Represent his Fathers Person in his eternall Kingdome after the Resurrection; and to acknowledge the Doctrine of the Apostles, who assisted by the spirit of the Father, and of the Son, were left for guides to bring us into that Kingdome, to be the onely, and assured way thereunto Complete text of 61130327:For if he beleeve that "Jesus is the Christ, he hath the spirit of God" (1 Joh Complete text of 61130333:) But hee that hath the spirit of god ; hee that dwelleth in god ; hee in whom god dwelleth, can receive no harm by the Excommunication of men Complete text of 61130844:"Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of god ; And this is the spirit of Antichrist Complete text of 61131020:) "Not to beleeve every spirit , but to try the Spirits whether they are of god , because many false Prophets are gone out into the world"? It is therefore manifest, that wee may dispute the Doctrine of our Pastors; but no man can dispute a Law Complete text of 61131040:where Moses not being able alone to undergoe the whole burthen of administring the affairs of the People of Israel, god commanded him to choose Seventy Elders, and took part of the spirit of Moses, to put it upon those Seventy Elders: by which it is understood, not that god weakened the spirit of Moses, for that had not eased him at all; but that they had all of them their authority from him; wherein he doth truly, and ingenuously interpret that place Complete text of 61131289:"Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of god Complete text of 61131319:Hereby yee shall know the spirit of god ; every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of god Complete text of 61131558:) "Then shall the Dust return to Dust, as it was, and the spirit shall return to God that gave it Complete text of 61131559:" Which may bear well enough (if there be no other text directly against it) this interpretation, that god onely knows, (but Man not,) what becomes of a mans spirit , when he expireth; and the same Solomon, in the same Book, (Chap Complete text of 61131563:) delivereth in the same sentence in the sense I have given it: His words are, "All goe, (man and beast) to the same place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; who knoweth that the spirit of Man goeth upward, and the spirit of the Beast goeth downward to the earth?" That is, none knows but god ; Nor is it an unusuall phrase to say of things we understand not, "God knows what," and "God knows where Complete text of 61131736:But the name of Daemon they did not (as the Graecians) attribute to Spirits both Good, and Evill; but to the Evill onely: And to the Good Daemons they gave the name of the Spirit of god ; and esteemed those into whose bodies they entred to be Prophets Complete text of 61131737:In summe, all singularity if Good, they attributed to the Spirit of god ; and if Evill, to some Daemon, but a kakodaimen, an Evill Daemon, that is, a Devill Complete text of 61131749:But when our Saviour speaketh to the Devill, and commandeth him to go out of a man, if by the Devill, be meant a Disease, as Phrenesy, or Lunacy, or a corporeal spirit , is not the speech improper? can Diseases heare? or can there be a corporeall spirit in a Body of Flesh and Bone, full already of vitall and animall Spirits? Are there not therefore Spirits, that neither have Bodies, nor are meer Imaginations? To the first I answer, that the addressing of our Saviours command to the Madnesse, or Lunacy he cureth, is no more improper, then was his rebuking of the Fever, or of the Wind, and Sea; for neither do these hear: Or than was the command of god , to the Light, to the Firmament, to the Sunne, and Starres, when he commanded them to bee; for they could not heare before they had a beeing Complete text of 61132119:But who knows that this spirit of Rome, now gone out, and walking by Missions through the dry places of China, Japan, and the Indies, that yeeld him little fruit, may not return, or rather an Assembly of Spirits worse than he, enter, and inhabite this clean swept house, and make the End thereof worse than the beginning? For it is not the Romane Clergy onely, that pretends the Kingdome of god to be of this World, and thereby to have a Power therein, distinct from that of the Civill State |