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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

in the Apostles judgement these are equivalent terms to lie to the Holy Ghost and to lie to God For the confirmation of this Argument though it is in it self so clear that he that uns may read it yet I shall add four considerations 1 They are said to lie to the Holy Ghost because only the Holy Ghost knew their sin he only searched their hearts and knew their hypocrisie and therefore Verse 9. they are said to tempt the Spirit of the Lord that is to try whether he could discover their sin and would p●nish it They lied to him whom they tempted for in lying to him it was that they tempted him 2 Peters intent was to aggravate their sin by this expression of lying to the Holy Ghost that it was committed in a more special and immediate manner against God Now if the Holy Ghost were only an Angel as our Adversary asserts it had been as great a sin to lie to Peter Gods extraordinary Messenger as to lie to the Holy Ghost because as B. himself saith What is done to any Messenger redounds to him that sends him whether the Messenger were Angel or Apostle that varies not the case For though Ambassadors may differ in their private conditions yet all of them do equally represent their Lord and Master 3 Peter doth make a Dicho●omy here acknowledging only two sort● of lies a lying to men and to God But according to our Adversaries opinion here should have been a Trichotomy Peter should have said Thou hast not lied to men nor to the Holy Ghost only but to God But now seeing the Apostle hath made only two members of the Division Thou hast not l●ed only to men but to God also Chuse which you will for one of the two you must acknowledge either that the Holy Ghost is man or God 4 Consider that Pet●r in the fourth verse doth explain what he meant by that phrase in the third verse Thou hast lied to the Holy Ghost this he explains thus Thou hast not lied to men to a creature but to God to the Holy Ghost which is God By what hath been said B's first Exception falls to the ground which is this That a man may lie to God and yet lie only to his messenger because what is done to Gods messenger is done to God Answ It is true that a sin committed against Gods messenger is committed against God but withall Peter doth here intimate that this was not only committed against God in that common and general respect in which indeed all sins and all lies are committed against God but that it was in a special immediate and extraordinary manner committed against God that is against the H. Ghost as he before expressed it But this Exception he himself distrusts and therefore he flies to another and that is he findes fault with the Translation and tels us that the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being joyned with an Accusative Case doth signifie the same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to belie and counterfeit and so the words must be rendred Why didst thou belie or counterfeit the Holy Ghost But neither will this relieve him for although it might be instanced that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with an Accusative Case signifies to lie and though the fourth Verse doth interpret the third 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being there but with a Dative and so necessarily signifying to lie yet if his Exposition were true the force of the Argument is not at all abated still it holds though in other terms Thou hast in counterfeiting the Holy Ghost not counterfeited men but God Or in counterfeiting the Holy Ghost thou hast not lied to men but to God I might add that it may be rendred thus as B. confesseth and Streso with others render it Why hath Satan filled thine heart to deceive the Holy Ghost Why hast thou been perswaded by him that the Holy Ghost might be deceived as if he did not understand thy thoughts and secret practices as if thou couldst put a cheat upon the Holy Ghost and make him believe thou art as good a Christian as the best However to endeavour to deceive the the Holy Ghost and to lie to the Holy Ghost are phrases of the same signification But there is yet another Objection that some of our weak Brethren make which I suppose is a part of B's Cabal for he is the great Homer whose vomit the inferiour Poets his Proselytes do lick up It is this Exod. 16. v. 7. Moses and Aaron said What are we that ye murmur against us And Verse 8. it is said Your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord. Hence say our Adversaries it will follow according to your reasoning that Moses was God I confess it is beyond my Logick to frame an Argument out of it And it is observable B. their Schoolmaster was ashamed to mention it yet because I see they pride themselves much in it lest they should be wise in their own conceit I shall answer it That text proves the quite contrary that Moses is not God because he so fully separates distinguisheth himself from God even as it follows out of Act. 5. that Peter was not God because he saith Thou hast not lied to us but to God And observe it Peter and Moses are Parallels not Moses and the Holy Ghost as they absurdly fancy for them it should have been said Thou hast not liest to the Holy Ghost but to God If you would make that place parallel with this you must first suppose Moses to speak thus Why murmur you against the Holy Ghost or holy Spirit and then to add your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord. And if so not onely the seeming fallacy vanisheth but it will be a strong argument to confirm this instance in Acts 5. Take another instance Suppose Davids Ambassadours had said to Hanun when he was abusing them 2 Sam. 10. 4. Why do you abuse our Lord and Master And presently after This injury is not done to us but to the King of Israel Every vulgar eye would see two things 1 That those Ambassadours were not the King of Israel 2 That the King of Israel was their Lord and Master So it is in this case as any one may easily apply it Another place to the same purpose we have 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. What know you not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost Therefore glorifie God in your body The Apostles Argument is this He whose temple you are ought to be glorified served c. But you are the temples of the Holy Ghost Therefore he is to be glorified or in the Apostles words Therefore glorifie God What a miserable Argument were this If the Holy Ghost were not God It were in plain English to argue thus You are the temples of you are consecrated to an Angel therefore glorifie God For the illustration of this Argument compare it with a parallel place 2 Cor.

ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΟΚΤΟΝΊΑ THE BLASPHEMER SLAINE With the SWORD of the SPIRIT Or a PLEA for the GODHEAD 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 Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge and Pastor of the Church of God at Michaels Quern in London London Printed by R. W. I. for John Rothwell at the Fountain and Bear in Goldsmiths Row in Cheap-side 1654. To my dearly beloved friends the flock of God in Michaels Quern Parish in LONDON Dearly beloved in the Lord IT was my earnest desire when first I published this Treatise for many reasons as far as possibly I could to have the Author undiscovered and therefore I could not preface any Dedication to it But notwithstanding all my endevours for secrecy what I thought to conceal is commonly known and I am lookt upon as the Author of it As long as there was a possibility of privacy I laboured for it seriously and sincerly but since now is it become publick it would be both a vanity and folly to endeavour any longer to smother it I thank God I am not ashamed of that cause that I have undertaken onely herein I desire pardon of ingenuous Readers that being so young and raw and confessedly unfurnished with those treasures of knowledge that are necessary for one that appears in Print I should ingage my self in so weighty a cause in so publick a manner And now having adventured thus farre to whom should I dedicate these first-fruits but to you to whom I am obliged both by the providence of God that hath fixed me among you and set me over you and by those many favours by which I stand ingaged to some of you It hath been my desire since I have been among you to approve my self to God and to your consciences in that work that the Lord hath intrusted me with and I can say in sincerity I have endeavoured that you as well as I might be able to give up your accounts with joy in that great Day And as I have often considered and sometimes told you that the work of a Minister doth consist in two things in building up his people 1 In Knowledge 2 In Grace and that these two are like Hippocrates his Twins that laugh and weep live and die together so have I really and sincerely though in much weakness endeavoured both that your hearts might be cleansed from hypocrisie and your heads from heresie that you might neither make shipwrack of faith nor of a good conscience that you might be antidoted both against the gangrene of erroneous doctrine and the leprosie of a vain and sinfull conversation God hath made us that are Ministers Shepherds we are therefore to preserve you as far as we can from those grievous Wolves that come in and devoure the flock Watchmen we are therefore to give you timely notice of approching enemies Salt we are therefore to season you against corrupt principles and practices Light we are to acquaint you with the ways and works of darkness that you may avoid them Husbandmen we must pluck up the weeds that hinder your growth Leaders and Commanders we must go in and out before you and fight your battels Witnesses of Christ we must continually bear witness to the cause and truth of Christ however despised and reproached Accordingly I have employed part of that time which I have spent among you in endeavouring to establish you in some of those truths that are most opposed in our dayes Here is another truth that I have not yet had occasion to speak of in the course of my Mininistery which in this Treatise is briefly defended A Truth not concerning some circumstantials in Religion not a matter of indifferencie that may with safety be either maintained or opposed but a Truth that concerns the very heart and soul of Religion a truth that relates to the vitals of Christianity a Truth that concerns the Holy Ghost and that in no less a matter then his Deity Which however some bold and insolent persons may contemptuoufly and as they think without danger speak lightly of yet our blessed Saviour doth so highly value it that he tells us in express terms though a blasphemy against himself shall be forgiven yet blasphemy against the H. Ghost shall not be forgiven to men Matth. 12. 31 32. A Truth which whosoever opposeth opposeth also the deity of Christ therefore he that is wel grounded in the former will never question the latter This is the truth that is here asserted which I present to your solemne and serious consideration It is not sufficient that you heare truths in a Pulpit mens unfaithful memories will soon deceive them it is very expedient that you also be frequent and diligent in reading those that have most briefly plainly and solidly writ about them You have one great priviledge ô happy you if you aid well understand and seriously consider your happiness there is scarce any errour but it hath been substantially encountered and fully refuted in the English tongue It would be your wisdome to get one or two of every sort and to take some time to peruse them that so you might the better be enabled to give a reason of that hope that is in you to any one that asketh it It may please God to suffer wicked and unreasonable men so far to prevail as you may be deprived of the Ministery and be left as sheep having no Sh●phe●d which if once Satan and his instruments can effect you may expect 〈…〉 the deluge of Errours sh●●●● break in upon you with greater violence when there is no Standard to be lifted up against it that those grievous wolves will teare the poore flock more fiercely when there is none to deliver them Ministers are living Books and Books are dead Ministers and yet though dead they speak When you cannot heare the one you may read the other Do not say You have no time Either you must finde a time to minde the saving of your souls or else God will finde a time to afflict your souls I may say of these heretical opinions what he said of Ministers though in a far different sense they watch for your souls Certainly it deserves a little time to look to a matter of that concernment And how can you watch against your enemies if you are not furnished with defensive weapons This therefore I do earnestly desire and as an Ambassadour of Christ and your Pastour require at your hands that you would make conscience of increasing your know ledge according to your opportunities That you would every day labour to be deeplier rooted in the faith and abundant in the work of the Lord. And that you may so be is the daily prayer of The unworthiest of all that call Christ Master and your Servant for Jesus sake M.P. Christian READER ALL