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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

misery that you would either procure my discharge or at least make report to the House touching my deniall of the supposed Deity of the Holy Spirit For that this only is the matter in contestation you very well know having both heard my confession before the Committee and remembring how when I was urged to declare my judgement concerning the Deity of Christ I waved the question as neither being that I was accused of nor which I had yet sufficiently studyed to engage my selfe publickly therein As for my opinion touching the Holy Spirit it is thus I believe the Holy Spirit to be the chiefe of all a see Heb. 1.13.14 whence these words are borrowed and compare it with 1 Pet. .1 12. as also Heb. 1.7 compared with Acts 1.2 3.4 and it will easily appeare that the Holy Spirit is a minister of God as well as others Ministring Spirits peculiarly sent out from Heaven to minister on their behalfe that shall inherit salvation and I do place him both according to the Scripture and the Primitive Christians and by name Iustin Martyr in his Apology in the third ranke after God and Christ giving him a preheminence above all the rest of the Heavenly Host So that as there is one principall Spirit amongst the evill Angels known in the Scripture by the name of Satan or the b 1 Pet. 5.8 Adversary or the c Zech. 13.2 Vncleane Spirit or the d 1 Sam. 16.15.16 Evill Spirit of God or e ib. ver the last the Spirit of God or f 1 Kings 12.21 according to the Originall the Spirit by way of eminence Even so is there one principall Spirit I borrow this Appellation from the Septuagint who render the latter clause of the 12 verse of Psal 31. in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spiritu principali fulci me stablish me with thy principall Spirit there is I say one principall Spirit amongst the good Angels called by the name of the g Iohn 16.7 Advocate or the h Eph. 4.30 Holy spirit or i Neh. 9.20 the good spirit of God or k 1 Cot. 7.40 the spirit of God or l Acts 10.19 the spirit by way of eminence This opinion of mine is attested by the whole tenour of the Scripture which perpetually speaketh of him as differing from God and inferiour to him but is irrefragably proved by these places of Scripture Neh. 9.6.20 Thou even thou art Lord or Iehovah alone thou hast made Heaven the Heaven of Heavens with all their Host Thou gavest thy good spirit to instruct them the Children of Israel Iohn 16.7.8 c. Neverthelesse I tell you the truth it is expedient for you that I goe away for if I goe not away the m So the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Originall perpetually signifieth amongst Greek Authours and is so rendred by the Translatours themselves 1 Iohn 2.1 and ought to have been so rendred here especially because he saith in the following words that the Holy Spirit shall convince the world for it is proper to an Advocate to convince Advocate will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you And when hee is come hee will reprove in the Originall Convince the world of sinne and of righteousnesse and of judgement I have yet many things to say unto you but yee cannot beare them now Howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speake of himselfe but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake and he will shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I he shall take of mine and shew it unto you Rom. 8.26 27. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what wee should pray for as wee ought but the spirit himselfe maketh intercession for us with grones that cannot be uttered But he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the minde or desire of the spirit for he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Acts 19.2 And Paul finding certaine Disciples said unto them have yee received the Holy Spirit since yee believed And they said unto him we have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy spirit Eph. 4.4.5.6 There is one body and one spirit even as yee have been called in one hope of your calling One Lord one faith one Baptisme One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all 1 Cor. 12.3.4 c. Wherefore I give you to understand that noman speaking by the spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed and that no man can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the Holy spirit But there are diversities of gifts yet the same spirit And there are diversities of administrations yet the same Lord And there are diversities of operations yet it is the same God that worketh all in all Luke 3.21 22. It came to passe that Iesus also being baptized and praying the Heaven was opened and the Holy spirit descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him 1 Cor. 2.11.12.13 But God hath revealed them to us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things even the depths of God For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth none but the spirit of God he doth not adde as before which is in him Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given us of God Revel 22.12.17 Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give unto every man according as his work shall be and the Spirit and the Bride say come Acts 5.32 And wee are his witnesses of these things and so is also the Holy Spirit whom God hath given to them that obey him Gal. 3.5 He therefore that ministreth or giveth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you d●th he it by the works of the Law or by the hearing or rather preaching of Faith He that ministreth or giveth the spirit to you a strange kinde of speech if the Holy Spirit were God The Scripture is wont to speak more soberly of Almighty God then to say that he is given by another much lesse by men as it is here said of the Holy Spirit 1 Cor. 8.4.5.6 Wee know that an Idoll is nothing in the world and that there is no other God but one For though there be that are called Gods whether in Heaven or in Earth as there be many Gods and many Lords yet unto us there is but one God ev●● the Father of whom are all things and wee unto him and one Lord even Iesus Christ by whom are all things and wee by him You see