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A73478	Haggeus the prophet Where-vnto is added a most plentifull commentary, gathered out of the publique lectures of D. Iohn Iames Gryneus, professor of diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Basill, and now first published, faithfully translated out of Latin into English, by Christopher Fetherstone student in diuinitie.; Bible. O.T. Haggai. English.	Fetherston, Christopher.; Grynaeus, Johann Jacob, 1540-1617.	1586 (1586)	STC 2790; ESTC S125271	158,555	366

one God and father of all c. Paul Rom. 4. Doth declare that wee are iustified by the same meanes whereby Abraham was iustified namely by faith that the manner of the fathers election and our election is all one namely free and vnchaungeable 1 Cor. 10. The Apostle saith that the fathers did eat the same spirituall meat and drinke the same spirituall drinke which we eate and which wee drinke Which thing all the godlie and these which haue vnderstanding doe sée to bée vnderstoode of the substaunce and fruite of the Sacramentes and not of the sacramentall signes These and other such like sayings doe teach vs that there is but one Testament and one couenaunt of grace in substance and trueth 3 Notwithstanding the olde Testament the Newe doe so differ in the dispensation that the newe Testament doeth farre exceede the olde Math. 13. 17. Verily I say vnto you manie Prophetes and iust men haue desired to see the thinges which you see and haue not seene them and to heare the thinges which you heare and haue not hearde them Yet let vs knowe that these thinges are spoken respectiuely and not simplie For hee doeth not denie that the Fathers knewe the same kinde of doctrine but he preferreth the estate and cōdition of Christ his Church before the discipliue of the lawe as beeing better For after that Christ the light of the worlde beganne to teach there did so great light of the knowledge of God shine in the heartes of the faithfull that hee that was least in that newe estate of the church was greater in the kingdom of heauē then Iohn the baptist if you consider the plentifulnes of doctrine In the eight to the Hebrues vers 7. the apostle reasoneth thus If that former testament he meaneth the olde testament had bene such that there had beene nothing wanting therein then had there béene no place sought for the second But there hath béene a place sought for the newe couenant vers 8. 9. And that may be vnderstood of the worde and the sacramentes For séeing the same doctrine the same faith and the same Christ doth raigne in the Church of both testamentes the diuersity of dispensation consisteth in the letter administration and whether you respect the preaching of the word or the administration of the Sacraments and not in the spirite and trueth But some there bée which doe attribute vnto the Fathers the shadowes and vnto vs the trueth And to the end they may prooue this they alleadge the wordes of the Apostle Heb 10. 1. The lawe hauing a shadowe of good thinges to come and not the very expresse forme of thinges c. I answere First they falsely take that as spoken simply which is spoken respectiuely and by way of comparison touching the moste solemne yéerely sacrifice which was nowe abrogated when Christe was vpon the Altar of the Crosse Secondly if they attribute no more vnto the Fathers but the shadowes and doe spoyle them of the truth then surely they thinke y● there was but small prouision made for their saluation and restoring For what shall wee thinke that any man can bee saued without the trueth Thirdly why doeth Paul attribute to vs Circumcision made without handes Col. 2. 11. and to the Fathers Baptisme and the spirituall meate and drinke 2. Cor. 1. 2 if the thing signified by the Sacrament be not common to the faithfull of both Testamentes For all men doe know that their signes and ours are not all one Lastlie what shall we say Augustine meant when hee did affirme that the Sacramentes of the Fathers and ours doe differ in the signes but are all one in substance But of these things we shall speake else where The latter part of the sixt verse Also my spirite shall stande in the middest of you feare not 4. Argument There is no cause why the taskemaisters and ouerseers of the Lordes worke shoulde bee discouraged with the feare of their enemies and the feeling of their owne infirmitie seeing that the spirite of God doeth stande in the middest of them The reason For the spirite of the Lorde is a spirite of wisedome and vnderstanding a spirit of counsell and strength a spirite of knowledge and feare of the Lorde But the holy spirite of the Esay 11. 2. Lorde will bee present with you Iewes whilest you are in building the Temple This minor proposition is grounded vppon his promise who is a God that cannot lie Wherefore you must goe forward stoutly in the holy worke and hope Tit. 1. 2. well of the successe My The same holy ghost is sometimes called the spirite of the Father sometimes the spirite of the sonne Whereby it is well proued that hee doeth procéede from the Father and the sonne as we shall hereafter declare Spirite Certayne taking the effectes for the cause doe thinke that it is to be vnderstood of the giftes of the holy Ghost But Christ vsing the same argument when hee was readie to goe to the Father promiseth his Disciples the holy Ghost which should be present with them and shoulde leade them into all truth Shall stande These wordes doe signifie presence and perpetuall helpe like as doeth that phrase To stande at any mans right hande Psalm 16. 8. In the middest of you Therefore the holy spirite is present by the presence of his grace with these onely to whome this thing was promised and giuen by the Father Of the holy spirite Aphor. 1. This worde Spirite Ruah Pneuma is sometime attributed to the creator sometime to the inuisible creatures This distinction is drawen from the cause and the effectes God is the cause and creator of all thinges The same is also a spirituall essence infinite eternall vncreated 2 When as the worde spirite is attributed to the creator it doth sometime signify the essence which is common to the thrée persons sometime the diuine nature of Iesus Christe sometime the person of the holy spirite according to these sayinges Iohn 4. 24. God is a spirite This may be vnderstoode of the same essence of God Rom. 1. 4. The Sonne of God being mightily declared according to the spirit of sanctification c. He setteth the spirite that is the Godheade of the worde against the flesh that is the humane nature which is in Christe Ephe 1. 13. You are sealed with that holy spirite of promise 3 The third person in the Godhead is the holy ghoste because hee is the essentiall power of God whereby all thinges are vpholden and the Church is sanctified The worde Spirite doeth signifie a worker and mouer not any qualitie in God 1. Cor. 12. 4. There are diuersities of giftes but one spirite ver 12. 4. For to one man is giuen the worde of wisedome by the spirit and to another the word of knowledge by the same spirite 4 The spirite is a substaunce or person distinguished from the father and the sonne by the note and marke of proceeding 1. Cor. 12. 11. But that one