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A55373	Blasphēmoktonia: = The blasphemer slaine with the sword of the spirit: or a plea for the god head of the Holy Ghost Wherein the deity of the spirit of God is proved in the demonstration of the spirit, and vindicated from the cavils of John Bidle. The second edition with many additions. By Matthew Pool, Master of Arts of Emmannel-Colledge in Cambridge; and pastor of the church of God at Michaels Quern in London.	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2826; ESTC R217686	38,396	97

Epistle that he had waited upon and contested with sundry Learned men and could never get a satisfactory answer nor I doubt everwill in his own judgement I fear God hath given him up to a spirit of delusion to believe lies To convince an Heretick is but a little below a Miracle and therefore it is not that I expect in this Treatise but onely the establishment of those that are yet free from this infection and the reducing of them if there be any such who have followed this wretched Apostate out of the simplicity of their hearts I am sensible that this Treatise of Bidle's is fully answered by learned Mr. Estwick to which Mr. B. hath never yet made a reply nor ever will be able But there are many that are unwilling to bestow either much pains or cost about books of that nature and so that errour doth yet spread and some as I am informed are lately infected with it I was therefore importuned to put forth a short and plain confutation af Bidle's Treatise which might require lesse of the Readers money and patience and so might serve as a common Antidote against that Pestilential Doctrine Which motion I did at first utterly reject being conscious to my self of mine own utter unfitnesse for such a work And had I been left to my self I should sooner have put my finger in the fire then my pen to paper upon such terms But being solemnly almost adjured by the honour of God and good of souls and being uncessantly urged I confesse I durst not deny lest I should prefer mine own credit which I thought might be justly blemished by publishing my weaknesse in Print with a Noverint universi as thousands have done before me I say lest I should prefer my credit to the glory of God which was here so neerly concerned and I hoped might be a little promoted by mine endeavours I therefore consulted not with flesh and blood but immediately betook my self to the work And if such fools as I write learned men may thank themselves who suffer so many pestilent books to lie un-answered as are daily put forth with what satisfaction to their own consciences I know not but I am sure with the great prejudice of the Church and dissatisfaction of pious souls I wish they would seriously lay this to heart and take heed they be not found among them that wrap their talents whether they be preaching or writing talents all is one in a napkin And in this work I confesse I was helped by the labours of some that went before me Mr. Estwick Doctor Cheynell and Cloppenburgius though I may safely say there are some things added of mine own which I hope may not be altogether uselesse and inconsiderable Such as it is here thou hast it read consider examine seriously diligently reverently and the Lord open the eyes of thy minde that thou mayest receive this truth in the love of it If thou art already drawn into that pestilent errour that is here confuted by the cunning craftinesse of those seducers that lie in wait to deceive thou hast the more need to look to thy self for as thy distemper cannot be lesse then mortall if it be an errour as indeed it is because it strikes at the very Deity of God himself so it is almost incurable And therefore it is high time for thee to awake out of sleep for now is thy damnation neerer then when thou didst first Apostatize It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent Seriously bethink thy self whether those foolish cavils thou pleasest thy self with here are likely to bear thee out and passe for currant at that great day Besides what is in this Treatise which will either satisfie thee or else I fear one day condemn thee consider one thing further whereas your Champion cries out upon us as Idolaters whether it be probable that God who hath promised to lead his people into all truth to be with his Church to the end of the world should suffer all his people those that did most sincerely love and worship him most firmly believe in him to fall 〈◊〉 live and die in such a foul and indeed damnable sin as Idolatry is and that for so many ages together Take one Caution more do not think to comprehend this Mystery in thy shallow understanding How should divine mysteries be depths if a creature could fathome them Do not make thy reason the rule of thy faith So did the wise Grecians the rational Romans and that was the great cause why the preaching of the Crosse was foolishnesse to them The riches of Christ are unsearchable shall we therefore dis-believe them the peace of God passeth all understanding shall we therefore dispute it out of the world For you that are not yet tainted with this soul-murdering doctrine 1 Blesse God for it 2 Take beed lest you also fall 3 Be wise unto sobriety And the Lord give you a spirit of discerning to distinguish between things that differ So prayeth he Who passionately labours for thy Conviction and Conversion or Establishment and Edification M. P. The DEITY of the HOLY GHOST PROVED BEfore I come to answer Mr. B's Arguments I shall lay down some Arguments to prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost I shall not follow his way in contending more by number and multitude then strength and force of Arguments in multiplying words without weight I shall forbear to bring many Arguments that might be alleadged and that upon good grounds and shall only ●ull out some chief ones and vindicate those which B. hath cavill'd against And thou blessed Spirit the Spirit of Truth plead thine own cause s●nd out Thy Light and Thy Truth that they may guide me in the handling of this controversie that Thy Divine Majesty may be fully vindicated Thy people solidly establish'd and Thine enemies may be either con●●●ted or confounded Amen Arg. 1. He whom the Scripture calls the Great and the True God is God But the Scripture calls the Holy Ghost the Great and the True God Ergo the Holy Ghost is God I make that addition in the Premisses the Great and True God because it is known and confessed that Magistrates are said to be gods though they are never so called but there is something added by way of qualification and diminution I have said You are gods but you shall die like men Psal 82. 6 7. So I have made thee a god to Pharaoh Exod. 7. 1. A made god and a god to Pharaoh The Major will be confessed All the doubt will be about the Minor For the proof I shall only urge two places of Scripture The first place is Acts 5. v. 3. why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie unto the Holy Ghost compared with the end of verse 4. Thou hast no● l●●d to men but to God That he speaks concerning the great God is confessed by the adversary and needs no proof So that

Major I prove it 1 Because the Scripture attributes that word that was spoken and written by Prophets or Apostles unto God Heb. 1. 1. God spake in times past by the Prophets Here is the principal cause God the instrumental cause the Prophets To one of these the Holy Ghost must be referred Luke 1. 7● And so 1 Th●ss 2. 13. Paul commends the Th●ssalonians for receiving his word not as the word of man but as it is indeed the Word of God Hence all the Scripture is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of divine inspiration 2 Tim. ● 16. or inspired by God But so it could not be if it were inspired by any creature whether Angel or man and indeed it cannot be otherwise but that God should be the inspirer of it because the Scripture cannot be founded upon the authority of a meer creature for then it would not be infallible nor would our faith be a divine faith Let us suppose that the Holy Ghost were an Angel as B. affirmes I say we could not believe him with a divine faith nor look upon his Word as absolutely infallible which if I mistake not is fully proved from Gal. 1. 8. Though we or an Angel from Heaven should preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have preached let him be accursed Where evident it is the Apostle puts himself and Angels both into the same rank in that respect and supposeth that neither of then were simply in fallible and that we could not safely rely upon either of them with a divine faith But now we may safely rely upon the Word and authority of the Holy Ghost for that is called a fure Word yea more sure then a voice from Heaven as you may see 2 Pet. 1. 19. and therefore so sure because it was spoken by the H. Ghost V 2● For the Minor it is proved 1 By that place fore-mentioned Acts 28. 25. The H● Ghost spake by I sai●h 2 By 2 Pe● 1. 21. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Where the Deity of the Holy Ghost is not obscurely proved for he tels us Verse 20. Scripture is not of private interpretation that is it is not to be interpreted according to mens private pre-conceived opinions but according to the minde of the Holy Ghost who was the Arthour of it A parallel place you have H●b 9. 8. The Holy Ghost this signifying c. where the minde of the Holy Ghost is made the genuine sense of the Scripture now Scripture is to be interpreted according to the minde of none but the Authour of it Many other places might be added but I do not desire to multiply places Whereas B. saith the H. Ghost is an Angel that cannot be for the Holy Ghost● you 〈◊〉 i● the Authour of the Scripture and doth fully understand all Scripture-mysteries but now the Angels are ignorant of them they knew not the day of judgement they are ignorant in great pair of Gospel-mysteries 1 Pet. 1. 12. The Apostles preached the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with or by the Holy Ghost which things the Angels desire to look 〈◊〉 Observe 1 The Angels are ●●●aly ●●stinguished from the Holy Ghost 2 The Holy Ghost is the Dictator of Gospel-myst●ries the Angels are Students learners in them Arg. 6. He who is ●●● in natu●● and essence with the Father is God But the Holy Ghost is one with the Father Therefore the Holy Ghost is God The Major will not be denied The Minor is proved from 1 John 5. 7. There are three that bear record in Heaven the Father the word and the Spirit and these are one Consider 1 If the Spirit were an Angel there were three thousand witnesses in Heaven 2 Again there is a clear variation of the phrase in the next Verse there it is they agree in one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but here it is not they agree in one but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are one it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not the personal number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Neutral to note that though there is in the Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a person and a person yet there is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a thing and a thing though there are three Persons yet there is but one nature but one Essence Had the H. G. bin an Angel John had committed a wilful and gross offence in varying the phrase whereby just cause of suspition was given to think that he was one with God not only by consent for so the Water Spirit and Bloud are one they consent in their testimony but also in Essence 3 ●ook to Verse 9. If we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater He takes notice only of two Witnesses the witness of God and the witness of men The witness of the Holy Ghost is not the witness of men nay the contrary is most clearly implied that it is the witness of God But this place is no better then its companions and therefore B. offers violence to it 1 He saith This phrase is never taken to signifie one in ●●ss●nd● but always one in consent I answer This is false the contrary is evident from John 10. 29 I and my Father are one Had Christ meant only one in consent the Jews would never have been ready to stone him Again he gives this as a reason why none could pluck hi● sheep out of his hand because he had one and the same power and so the same Essence with God For if he had only been one in consent with the Father one might assoon have pluckt his sheep out of his hand as out of the hand of any of his Disciples for they also were one in consent with God But here lies the sorce of the argument My Father is greater then all and therefore none can pluck them out of his hand And I am as great as the Father for I and he are one and therefore it will be as hard a work to pluck them out of mine hand And it is observable when the J●ws charge him with making himself God he doth not flie to B's refuge to say he meant onely one in consent which if true had been the fairest and best way but he argues from their own principles that they allow Magistrates to be gods and therefore he may be call'd God because lie hath a●tority from God as Magistrates have was in a more ●mi●●●nt way sanctified by God and sent into the World by the way holding forth that he had another nature and being and was a person before he was sont into the World how could nothing be sanctified sent into the World and therefore had not onely the humane n●●● which he received from the Virgin after he was sent into the world but also a divine nature by which he was God But B. faith That it