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A28823	The triumph of faith over death, or, The just man's memoriall compris'd in a panegyrick and sermon, at the funerall of the religious, most learned Dr. Combar, late master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and deane of Carlile / delivered in Trinity Colledge chappel, by R.B. ... the 29. of March, 1653.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3762; ESTC R17491	31,312	50

whilst you live may truly be said to be dead because they have the Seale of Death as it were stampt upon them being by reason of sinne Aug. lib. 1. de peccatorum meritis c. 4. mortis necessitati facta obnoxia ut quasi jam habeantur dicantur mortua So St. Augustine where he affirmes against the Pelagians and Philosophers that if man had not sinned he should not have died out of any necessity of nature as they maintained and with them Eugubinus upon the second of Genesis Against these we must assert with the forenamed learned Father Corpus mortale non moriturum si nimirum in Innocentiâ persisteret nunc autem post peccatune mortuum Aug. Ibid. That man before the fall had a mortall body yet so that he should not have died if he had persisted in innocency but now being wounded by sin it is a dead body and fraile Man a composition of Sinne Death and Misery The Text doth branch it selfe into these two Generalls First Suppositio Secondly Positio a Supposition and a Position or positive assertion If the Spirit c. Here is the Supposition He shall quicken c. This the Position In the first Generall I shall unfold or open these foure particulars First Quis. Secondly Cujus Thirdly Quare Fourthly Quid. Who this Spirit is Whose Why called Spirit and what is meant by his dwelling in us If the Spirit of Him c. In the second Generall observe with me these two parts First Quis fructus inhabitantis spiritus The fruit or benefit of the Spirits dwelling in us Secondly quomodo aut per quem accrescit nobis How or by whom it is derived and conveyed unto us our mortall or dead bodies shall be quickned or raised to life by the power and efficacy of the same Blessed Spirit He that raised up Christ from the dead c. I shall lead your Meditations through these six stages and begin First with the Quis who this spirit is And whilst I undertake this and my next laborious task I shall implore that holy spirit in the words of Divine Nazianzen Orat. de Spir. San 1. defending the Deity of the Holy Ghost against the Macedonians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. First by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirit in my Text we must not understand with the Macedonians and Socinians who joyne issue in their impious Heresies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as it is in the Socinian Catechisme virtutem ceu efficaciam quâ homines fideles sanctificantur Divinis usibus consecrantur A bare action efficacy or power of God in the Hearts of Men sanctifying their natures and consecrating them to Divine uses This was the cursed Opinion of Samosatenus concurring herein with the forenamed Hereticks but by the spirit you must conceive the third person of the glorious Trinity who with the Father and the Sonne is the same in the Essence of the * 〈…〉 3 Deity and most powerfull dignity And therefore the Scholemen conclude that this Holy spirit is the Third Person Non gradu sed ordine The third in order not degree the third non naturae diversitate aut Majestatis inaequalitate sed susistendi ordine because He is equall to the Father and the Son as in Being or Nature so in Power and Majesty Revel 22.1 We reade in the Apocalyps that St. John saw in a Vision a pure River of living Water or water of life cleare as Christall proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lambe that pure River of living water what is it sayes Justin Martyr but the everliving most pure and loving spirit John 7.30 who is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 living Water John 7. and proceeds after an ineffable manner from God the Father and the Sonne Aug. who is Agnus et Leo a Lamb and a Lyon a gentle Lambe to the Saints and a feirce Lyon to his Enemies This forenamed Justin Martyr adds and sayes As a River is of the same nature with the fountaine from which it proceeds so the Holy Ghost doth so proceed from the Father and the Sonne that He partakes of the same nature and Essence with them as is evident first by all those Divine properties which are ascribed to Him equally with the Father and the Sonne viz. Gen. 1.2 Psal 139.7 1 Cor. 2.10 Psal 33.6 Es 61.1 1 Cor. 12.4.12 Eternity Omnipresence and Omniscience Secondly by his Divine workes as Creation the mission or sending of Christ The gifts of Tongues and Miracles There are diversities of gifts but the same spirit To another is given the working of Miracles c. All these things worketh that one and the selfe same spirit 2 Part. This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The consubstantiality of the Holy Ghost with the other two Persons is confirmed by the next which is the second particular of my Text the Cujus Him If the spirit of Him c. Him that is the Father and the Sonne as God who by the power of the God-head raised himselfe as Man Hee was quickned by the spirit 1. Pet. 3 1● that is by the strength or vertue of the God-head 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Theophylact The Holy Ghost is said to be the spirit of the Father and the Sonne because he proceeds from both which is an Article of our Creed The manner of which procession if I should goe about to declare out of the Fathers Schoolemen and other Moderne Writers I might either speake and not be understood or seeme not to understand what I speake their termes are so obscure and the modus of it so difficult Onely this I shall commend to your better understandings thus much you must know and believe against the Pneumatomachists that this Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne denotes his Communion with both in the Essence or Substance of the Deity that he is as Beza observes from this place Verus deus a true Consubstantiall God who together with the Father and the Sonne as it is in the Athanasian Creed is for ever to be worshipped and glorified As for those Racovian Hereticks the Socinians in Poland and their English followers the Crellianists who maintaine the contrary Coriolan Epit. Concil I heartily wish they may not finde in their Soules and Bodies the weight of that heavy curse in the * This councell was held under Pelagius the second 589. Toletan Councell pronounced against the Adversaries of the Holy Ghost it is this Quicunque spiritum sanctum non credit aut non crediderit a Patre Filio procedere eumque non dixerit co-eternum esse Patri Filio Co-essentialem Anathema sit i. e. Whosoever doth not or shall not hereafter believe that the Holy Ghost proceedes from the Father and the Sonne and shall not say he is Co-eternall and Co-essentiall with the Father and the Sonne let him be accursed The third Particular proposed 3. Part.