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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	holy_a	sin_n	sin_v	2,051	5	9.4946	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76702	Twelve 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 Honourable House of Commons. And to which is subjoyned an exposition of five principall passages of the Scripture, alleadged by the adversaries to prove the deity of the Holy Spirit; together with an answer to their grand objection touching the supposed omnipresence of the Holy Spirit. / By Iohn Bidle, Master of Arts.	Biddle, John, 1615-1662.; I. H.	1647 (1647)	Wing B2879; Thomason E406_1; ESTC R201902	17,962	25

is the sence the same this latter being spoken after the Hebrew idiome the former according to the ordinary phrase for confirmation whereof see Matth. 19. comparing verse 5. 6. together in the Originall wherefore this expression ought to be rendred alike in both verses as the former Interpreters did it though the Latter Interpreters in vers 8. have rendred it agree in one putting the glosse instead of the Translation So that this place maketh nothing for them that hold the Holy Spirit to have one and the same Essence with the Father unlesse they can prove that those who are one in agreement must likewise necessarily be one in Essence or that two or three cannot bee one but it must presently be in Essence I omit for the present to speak of the suspectednesse of this place how it is not extant in the ancient Greek Coppies nor in the Syriack Translation nor in most ancient Books of the Latine Edition and rejected by sundry Interpreters both Ancient and Mordern An Exposition of Acts 5.3.4 But Peter said Ananias Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to or deceive the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the Land while it remained was it not thine own And after it was sold was it not in thine own power Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart thou hast not lyed unto men but unto God In this passage the Holy Spirit is neither expresly nor by good consequence called God For admit the ordinary Translation were true as it is not yet will 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 emply a metonymie of the adjunct lyed not to men but to God that therefore the Holy Spirit is God for in lying to them that are endued with the Spirit of God one may lie to God and yet neither they nor the Spirit in them be God but only the Messengers of God for what is done to Messengers redounds to him that sendeth them see 1 Thess 4.8 John 13.20 Luk. 10.16 But if any man look more narrowly into the words he shall perceive that the verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is construed in a different manner to wit with an accusative in verse 3. and with a dative in verse 4. Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with an accusative in Greek Authors is the same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to bely or counterfeit thus Lucan in Pseudom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nomen quoddam mentitus counterfeiting a certaine name This being so the words are to be rendred thus Why hath Satan filled thy heart to bely or counterfeit the Holy Spirit that is why hast thou suffered the unclean spirit so farre to prevail with thee as to lay down this mony at his suggestion as appeareth in that thou hast proloyned part of the price of thy Possession and not laid down all and yet to bear us in hand that thou as well as others didst it at the motion of the Holy Spirit Thou hast not lyed to men but to God that is assure thy selfe that this dessembling of thine is not so much to us ●s to God himselfe whose servants wee are This Exposition is not only agreeable to the Greek context and scope of the place but is a also seconded by Erasmus Calvin and Aretius An Exposition of 1 Cor. 6.19 20. What know ye not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you whom you have of God and that ye are not your own For ye have been bought with a price wherefore glorifie God both in your body and in your Spirit which are God's Whereas it is objected by some out of this passage 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 interest and dedicated to his honour both which are in the following words affirmed of God contra-distinctly from the Holy Spirit But these things are so farre from being held forth in this place that the contrary may thence not obscurely be evinced For the Apostle after he had intimated in what respect our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit to wit by inhabitation for so much is emplyed by the description added to the Holy Spirit since descriptions in Sacred Writers are not idle and impertinent he addeth that wee have Him from God thereby not only distinguishing Him from God but intimating also that He is desposed of by God and bestowed on Us and consequently that He is ours by interest and not we his as the objection would inferre An Exposition of Matth. 12.31 All manner of sinne and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men For the Objection drawn 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 sinne 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 his 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 that are mentioned by the Author to the Hebrewes cha 10 25 26. c. Which things are the greatest affronts that can be offered to God who useth the Ministry of the Spirit in none but things of the greatest importance An Answer to the grand Objection of the Adversaries touching the supposed Omnipresence of the Holy Spirit After I had throughly sifted this Controversy I found that the Adversaries who so much cry down Reason saying that we must renounce it when we speak of Divine Mysteries and simply rest in the words of the Scripture do notwithstanding in the upshot wave the Scripture as giving a very uncertain Testimony to their Doctrine in this point and ground themselves on the mear conjectures of their own Reason For thus they argue The Holy Spirit if he were not omnipresent and consequently God could not inspire and dwell in so many men at one time For Answer hereunto I will only ask them one question which if they resolve I will then tell them how the Holy Spirit though he be not omni-present may inspire all the faithfull in the world at one time Our Saviour in the fourth of Mark explaining the Parable of the sower saith in vers 15. And these are they by the way side where the word is sown but when they have heard Satan commeth immediately and taketh the Word that was sown in their hearts Suppose now that the seed of the Word be sown in ten thousand places at one time as it hapneth on every Lords day how can Satan whom the Adversaries will deny to be omni-present come and immediatly snatch the Word out of the hearts of the greatest part of the Hearers The same resolution that they shall give to this question will I apply to their own objection If this bee not sufficient take yet more proofs that may seem to evince the omni-presence of the unclean spirit Thus is he said to have been a lying spirit in the mouth of four hundred false Prophets 1 King 22.22 23. and there is the same reason between four hundred and foure Millions Thus is he said to hold the impenitent who make the greatest part of mankinde in hi● snare and to take them captive at his will 2 Tim. 2. ult To blind the minds of them that believe not 2 Cor. 4.4 To dwell in the ungodly Revel 2.13 To shew the wicked whatsoever they practise Joh. 8.38 Yea to deceive the whole world Rev. 12.9 20.2.3 If they dare not for all this to affirm the uncleane spirit to be omni-present why do they on lesse ground conclude the omni-presence of the Holy Spirit especially when the Scripture so plainly testifyeth that He changeth place as you may see in the eigth Argument above FINIS