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A28139 XII arguments drawn out of the Scripture wherein the commonly-received opinion touching the deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted : to which is prefixed a letter tending to the same purpose, written to a member of the Parliament ... / by John Biddle. Biddle, John, 1615-1662. 1647 (1647) Wing B2880; ESTC R208727 25,901 51

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is not yet would it not presently follow because Ananias by lying to men endued with the Holy Spirit for even Piscator in the words acknowledgeth and the words themselves according to this Interpretation imply a Metonymie of the adjunct the Holy Spirit being put for men endued with the Holy Spirit lyed not to men but to God that there fore the Holy Spirit is God because in lying to them that are endued with the Spirit of God one may lye to God and yet neither they nor the Spirit in them be God but onely the messengers of God for what is done to the messengers redoundeth to him that sends them see 1 Thes. 4. 8. John 13. 20. Luke 10. 16. But if any man look more narrowly into the words he shall finde that the verb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is construed in a different manner namely with an accusative verse 3● and with a dative verse 4. with an accusative it signifieth in Greek Authors to bely pretend or counterfeit thus Lucian in his Pseudomantis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} nomen quoddam mentitus counterfeiting a certain name This being so the words are to be rendred thus Why hath Satan filled thy heart to bely the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price that is Why hast thou skffered the unclean Spirit so to prevail with thee as that thou shouldest sell thy Farm and lay down this money at his suggestion as appeareth in that thou hast purloined part of the price and not laid down all and yet to bear us in hand that thou didst it at the motion of the Holy Spirit thou hast not lyed to men but to God that is assure thy self that this dissimulation of thine is not so much to us as to God himself whose Servants we are This Exposition is not onely agreeable to the Greek context and scope of the place but is also seconded by Erasmus Calvin and Aretius But if any man will contend that though {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be not here rendred to lye unto as I have not yet met with an instance where it is so rendred when an Accusative is put after it yet the other signification set in the Margin of our English Bible is altogether to be admitted and I confess I have in good Greek Authors found the word so used and the place to be rendred Why hath Satan filled thy heart to deceive the Holy Spirit This will overthrow the opinion touching the Godhead of the Holy Spirit For if the Holy Spirit be God then will it be all one as if it had been said Why hath Satan filled thy heart to deceive God Which seemeth to be blasphemy for it importeth either that God may be deceived or else that Satan or at least Ananias thought so otherwise he would not have purposed in his heart to do it But what force or use if this Interpretation of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be admitted will those words have And to keep back part of the price and also those While it remained remained it not to thee and being sold was it not in thy power For these expressions argue that Ananias pretended to have received a command from the Holy Spirit to sell his Farm and lay downe the price thereof at the Apostles feet and so did not deceive or lye to but bely the Holy Spirit and consequently was guilty not onely of coverousness in keeping some of the money back but also of Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit in fathering upon the Holy Spirit that which was injected into his heart by the unclean Spirit For he alike Blasphemeth the Holy Spirit who doth with Ananias wilfully father the works of the Devil upon the Holy Spirit as he who with the Pharisees Mat. 12. 24. wilfully ascribeth the works of the Holy Spirit to the Devil An Exposition of 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. What know ye not that your body is the Temple of the holy Spirit that is or dwelleth in you whom ye have from God and ye are not your own for ye have been bought with a price Wherefore glorifie God both with your body and your spirit which are God's Whereas it is objected by some out of this place that the holy Spirit is God in that our body is said to be his Temple I answer that it would follow could it be proved that our body is so the temple of the holy Spirit as to be his by the highest interest and primarily dedicated to his honour for every one will confess our body to be God's in such a manner But these things are so far from being intimated in this passage yea that our body is at all his by interest or dedicated to his honour both which are here affirmed of God contradistinctly from the Spirit as that the contrary may from thence not obscurely be evinced For after the Apostle had hinted in what respect our body is the Temple of the holy Spirit to wit by inhabitation for so much is implied by those words that is or dwelleth in you since descriptions in sacred Writers are not idle and impertinent he addeth that we have the Spirit from God thereby implying that he is disposed of and given by God to us and consequently he is ours by interest not we his and accordingly concludeth from thence that we ought with our body to glorifie not the Spirit but God who is openly distinguished from the Spirit and declared to be the Proprietor of our body An Exposition of Matth. 12. 31. All sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the holy Spirit shall not be forgiven For the Objection drawn from hence that the sin against the holy Spirit is unpardonable I answer that the sin against the holy Spirit is not therefore unpardonable because he is God for this the Scripture nowhere acknowledgeth and besides by the same reason every sin against God would be unpardonable but because he that sinneth against the holy Spirit doth in the same act sin against God for every sin against whomsoever committed is terminated in God with an high hand to wit either by slandering and opposing such works whereof a man is convinced in conscience that God hath wrought them by the holy Spirit as the Pharisees did or by renouncing and opposing such Truths whereof a man is convinced in conscience that God hath revealed them by his holy Spirit as the Renegadoes did who are mentioned by the Author to the Hebrews Chap. 10. 25 26 c. which things are the greatest affronts that can be offered to God who useth the ministery of the Spirit in none but things of the highest importance and maketh the clearest discovery of himself as to his Power and Majestie by him Hence it cometh to pass that a sin against the Father or the Son may be forgiven but not a sin against the holy Spirit inasmuch as it is also against the greatest light For God