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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	covenant_n	sacrament_n	seal_v	3,518	5	10.1195	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

witness in the Holy Ghost Swearing is nothing else but a calling God to witness and as God alone doth search the heart he alone is able to judge the heart whether he that swears swears in truth So he only is to be sworn by 4 This appears from Revel 1. 4 5. Grace b● un●o you and peace from him which is and was and is to come and from the seven spirits which are before his throne and from Jesus Christ c. You see Saint John prays to all the Persons in the Trinity amongst the rest the seven spirits The Spirit of God is called the seven spirits because of its manifold gifts and operations Seven is a note of perfection and seven spirits in relation to the seven Churches The seven Churches were as liberally provided for as if they had had seven spirits These seven spirits cannot be meant of Angels for 1 these seven spirits are put before Christ whereas the Angels are far below him Heb. 1. 2 The good Angels would never accept of Prayer or Worship Revel 22. 8 9. 3 Prayers are not to be directed to any creature to any Angel for we are to pray to none but those that know our hearts Rom. 8. 27. We must pray to none but him that is the object of our faith Rom. 10. 14. God hath commanded us onely to call upon himself Psal 50. 15. Call upon me not upon an Angel in the day of trouble Christ bids us pray only to Our Father And much more might be said but I am ashamed to see that we should need arguments to dispute down such rotten Popish Tenents out of those that profess Protestancie From all these it cleerly follows that these seven spirits cannot be understood to be created Angels 4. Nor are the Angels the fountains of grace and peace The seven spirits here prayed to are so If it be said though they are not the fountains yet they are instruments I Ans 1. The instruments of grace must not be prayed to Ministers are Gods instruments in the working of grace yet we must not pray to them 2 The Scripture never in the least hints that Angels are Gods instruments in working of grace And if it were true as it is most false that the Holy Ghost were an Angel yet will it not follow because one Angel is said to have some causality in the working of grace therefore 7 have rather because it is attributed onely to one the rest are excluded 3 If Angels are instruments then either moral or natural not moral for that consists in perswasion c. Angels do not perswade c. nor natural for grace being created must needs be immediately produced by God and besides B. and all the Socinians are so far from allowing such a Physical influence of Angels upon the will c. that they deny it to God himself and tell us he can onely perswade the heart but not work physically upon it The best of creatures are in the condition of those wise Virgins that have oil only for their own use If it be said Here the seven spirits are put before Christ whereas Christ being the second Person should be put before the Spirit I answer 1 Nothing can be gathered from this order Sometimes the Son is mentioned before the Father 2 Cor. 13. 14. The reason is though there be a priority of order among the Persons of the blessed Trinity yet there is no precedencie in dignity 2 The Spirit of God is superiour to Christ as Mediatour and so he is spoken of here as is evident Arg. 3. He in whose name Baptisme is to be administred is God But Baptisme is to be administred in the Name of the Holy Ghost Therefore the Holy Ghost is God For the Minor that cannot be denied it is express Scripture Matth. 28. ●9 The Major will easily be proved ● If you consider what it is to be baptized into ones name it is to be baptized into ones worship faith and do ●r●ne and further to be baptized by the authority or at the appointment af one 2 If you consider what Baptisme is it is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace Now in whose name is Baptisme to be administred but in his who is able to seal to us Gods part of the Covenant and to whom we owe the performance of our part To whom doth it belong to appoint Sacraments but to God alone 3 If you consider how much Paul dreaded the thoughts of it that any man should say He was baptized in the name of Paul 1 Cor. 1. 13 14 15. And no reason can be given why if it was lawful to baptize in the name of any servant or Minister it were not as lawful to baptize in the name of Paul as in the name of any Angel 4 If you consider that Ephes ● One Lord one Faith one Baptisme where it is not obscurely implied that Baptisme is to be in the name of none but the Lord and also that these three mentioned in Baptism are but one one Lord. But the Theomachist objects The Jews are said to be baptized into Moses 1 Cor. 10. 2. I answer 1 There is difference between these phrases being baptized into one and in his name Certainly there was as much reason why the Corinthians might be baptized in the name of Paul as the Israelites in the name of Moses And therefore as Paul abhorred the thoughts of it that any should be baptized in his name so doubtless Moses would not have arrogated it to himself nor Paul have given it to Moses 2 Moses is taken several ways To omit other senses sometimes it is taken for the Law and worship of God delivered by the hand of Moses Luke 16. 31. If they heare not Moses and the Prophets Why Moses where was he And the Prophets do they live for ever It was only the Word of God written by Moses and the Prophets Acts 21. 21. Thou teachest all the Jews to forsake Moses so the meaning of it may be only this They were baptized or initiated into the Law and worship of God delivered by Moses now what is this to the purpose Or 3 The Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be put for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is in other places Acts 7. 35. The Law was given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into the dispositions of Angels for by the dispositions of Angels according to Gal. 3. 19. It was ordained by Angels Whereas B. saith We are baptized into the guidance of the Spirit into the confession and obedience of it it being the chief instrument whereby God guides governs sanctifies the Church Alas whither will a wandring creature rove We use to judge the Papists sufficiently absurd and I doubt not but B. will join with us in it for making a visible head of the Church distinct from Christ Now B. makes an invisible head the Vicar of God and Christ and that one of those Angels that are so far from being heads of the