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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

Major I prove it 1 Because the Scripture attributes that word that was spoken and written by Prophets or Apostles unto God Heb. 1. 1. God spake in times past by the Prophets Here is the principal cause God the instrumental cause the Prophets To one of these the Holy Ghost must be referred Luke 1. 7● And so 1 Th●ss 2. 13. Paul commends the Th●ssalonians for receiving his word not as the word of man but as it is indeed the Word of God Hence all the Scripture is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of divine inspiration 2 Tim. ● 16. or inspired by God But so it could not be if it were inspired by any creature whether Angel or man and indeed it cannot be otherwise but that God should be the inspirer of it because the Scripture cannot be founded upon the authority of a meer creature for then it would not be infallible nor would our faith be a divine faith Let us suppose that the Holy Ghost were an Angel as B. affirmes I say we could not believe him with a divine faith nor look upon his Word as absolutely infallible which if I mistake not is fully proved from Gal. 1. 8. Though we or an Angel from Heaven should preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have preached let him be accursed Where evident it is the Apostle puts himself and Angels both into the same rank in that respect and supposeth that neither of then were simply in fallible and that we could not safely rely upon either of them with a divine faith But now we may safely rely upon the Word and authority of the Holy Ghost for that is called a fure Word yea more sure then a voice from Heaven as you may see 2 Pet. 1. 19. and therefore so sure because it was spoken by the H. Ghost V 2● For the Minor it is proved 1 By that place fore-mentioned Acts 28. 25. The H● Ghost spake by I sai●h 2 By 2 Pe● 1. 21. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Where the Deity of the Holy Ghost is not obscurely proved for he tels us Verse 20. Scripture is not of private interpretation that is it is not to be interpreted according to mens private pre-conceived opinions but according to the minde of the Holy Ghost who was the Arthour of it A parallel place you have H●b 9. 8. The Holy Ghost this signifying c. where the minde of the Holy Ghost is made the genuine sense of the Scripture now Scripture is to be interpreted according to the minde of none but the Authour of it Many other places might be added but I do not desire to multiply places Whereas B. saith the H. Ghost is an Angel that cannot be for the Holy Ghost● you 〈◊〉 i● the Authour of the Scripture and doth fully understand all Scripture-mysteries but now the Angels are ignorant of them they knew not the day of judgement they are ignorant in great pair of Gospel-mysteries 1 Pet. 1. 12. The Apostles preached the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with or by the Holy Ghost which things the Angels desire to look 〈◊〉 Observe 1 The Angels are ●●●aly ●●stinguished from the Holy Ghost 2 The Holy Ghost is the Dictator of Gospel-myst●ries the Angels are Students learners in them Arg. 6. He who is ●●● in natu●● and essence with the Father is God But the Holy Ghost is one with the Father Therefore the Holy Ghost is God The Major will not be denied The Minor is proved from 1 John 5. 7. There are three that bear record in Heaven the Father the word and the Spirit and these are one Consider 1 If the Spirit were an Angel there were three thousand witnesses in Heaven 2 Again there is a clear variation of the phrase in the next Verse there it is they agree in one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but here it is not they agree in one but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are one it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not the personal number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Neutral to note that though there is in the Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a person and a person yet there is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a thing and a thing though there are three Persons yet there is but one nature but one Essence Had the H. G. bin an Angel John had committed a wilful and gross offence in varying the phrase whereby just cause of suspition was given to think that he was one with God not only by consent for so the Water Spirit and Bloud are one they consent in their testimony but also in Essence 3 ●ook to Verse 9. If we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater He takes notice only of two Witnesses the witness of God and the witness of men The witness of the Holy Ghost is not the witness of men nay the contrary is most clearly implied that it is the witness of God But this place is no better then its companions and therefore B. offers violence to it 1 He saith This phrase is never taken to signifie one in ●●ss●nd● but always one in consent I answer This is false the contrary is evident from John 10. 29 I and my Father are one Had Christ meant only one in consent the Jews would never have been ready to stone him Again he gives this as a reason why none could pluck hi● sheep out of his hand because he had one and the same power and so the same Essence with God For if he had only been one in consent with the Father one might assoon have pluckt his sheep out of his hand as out of the hand of any of his Disciples for they also were one in consent with God But here lies the sorce of the argument My Father is greater then all and therefore none can pluck them out of his hand And I am as great as the Father for I and he are one and therefore it will be as hard a work to pluck them out of mine hand And it is observable when the J●ws charge him with making himself God he doth not flie to B's refuge to say he meant onely one in consent which if true had been the fairest and best way but he argues from their own principles that they allow Magistrates to be gods and therefore he may be call'd God because lie hath a●tority from God as Magistrates have was in a more ●mi●●●nt way sanctified by God and sent into the World by the way holding forth that he had another nature and being and was a person before he was sont into the World how could nothing be sanctified sent into the World and therefore had not onely the humane n●●● which he received from the Virgin after he was sent into the world but also a divine nature by which he was God But B. faith That it

Omnipotency of God which is the same with God Exod. 8. 19. The Spirit of God was greater and stronger then Christ as man Again Rom. 15. 19. Mighty signes and wonders were wrought by the power of the Spirit Those Miracles which the Apostles wrought they professed they did not work by their own power Acts 4. 12. but by the power and strength of Christ And doubtlesse it had been as sacrilegious to say they wrought them by the power of an Angel or any other creature And therefore whereas sometimes they ascribe them to Christ Acts 4. 16. sometimes to the Holy Ghost as in the place now mentioned sometimes to God the Father Acts 5. 30. it hence cleerly follows that every one of these is God and because the Scripture tels us there is but one God Deut. 6. 4. therefore we conclude there are three persons and these three are one Again Rom. 8. 11. The Spirit of God raised up Christ from the dead and yet he raised himself I will raise up this temple John 2. 19. Hence also it follows that Christ and the Holy Ghost are God and are one God 3 It is proper to God to govern the Church I mean to govern it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to send Ministers and yet this is attributed to the Holy Ghost Acts 13. 2. The Holy Ghost said Separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them Was this a comely dialect for a creature to use far different I am sure it is from the language of created Angels see Revel 22. 9. So Acts 20. 28. Take heed to the flock of God over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Over-seers and compare this with 1 Cor. 12. 28. and you shall finde that it was God that sets Officers in the Church Jesus Christ himself was sent by the Spirit Luke 4. 18. Again Acts 1● ●8 It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us that is to the Holy Ghost in us to decree You see the Holy Ghost is the Law-giver of the Church and yet God is the only Law givet Jam. 4. 12. 4 The Holy Ghost acteth according to his good pleasure according to the counsel of his own will which is the property of God Ephes 1. 11. 1 Cor. 12. 11. All these things worketh the Spirit dividing severally as he will All creatures must say Not my will but thy will Lord be done Jesus Christ himself who is far higher then all the Angels said it and the Angels in particular are said not to do their own will but to do Gods Commandements hearkening to the voice of his word Psal 103. 20. And again Paul would have gone and preached in Bithynia but the Spirit suffered him not Acts 16. 7. Who is this that undertakes whom he will to save and whom he will to destroy Non vox hominem sonat It is not the language of a Creature but of the great God Jesus Christ himself whom yet the Authour to the Hebrews proves at large to be better then all the Angels Chap. 1. and so according to B's supposition better then the Holy Ghost yet he did not dispense the Word according to his own pleasure as man but according to the pleasure of his Father Matth. 15. 24. I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel I might add that the Holy Ghost sanctifies us and it would easily amount to a Demonstration But I have said enough for the proof of a point so clearly expressed in the Scripture I have done with the Cataskeuastical part I now come to the An aske●astical I mean to detect the fallacies and cavils wherewith the enemy of the Holy Ghost endeavours to dispute him out of his Throne and Deity And truly one may rationally expect that he that comes to dispute a truth out of the Church that hath had so long possession to throw down a doctrine that hath so firm a foundation in the Scripture should write like Tertullian and have as many sentences as words as many argnments as sentēces But contrariwise I finde in this Pneumatomachist nothing but a heap of words a Jury of arguments that are neither good nor true bold dictates imperiously obtruded upon the World without any proof ancient Land-marks removed quia ipse dixit because the Schoolmaster would have it so and such things which Non sani esse hominis non sanus juret Orestes You will say Why then do you answer him Because of that of Solomon Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit Prov. 26. 5. Besides God hath in just judgement sent abroad a spirit of delusion and there are multitudes that will sooner comply with a new and erroneous opinion upon the appearance of one argument then embrace a truth though confirmed by several solid demonstrations and evident Scriptures even as one stroke will carry a man further with the tide then five against it And therefore that I may cut off an occasion from thē that seek an occasion to fall from the truth that I may leave those inexcusable that are resolved they wil not be convinced that I may lay up an evidence to justifie God and to be a witness against them who I perceive will not see against that dreadful day of judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I come to answer his arguments This only in the general There is one consideration that will utterly enervate all his Arguments It must needs be acknowledged and B. himself confesseth it That there are many things that are spoken of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the manner of men and must be understood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so as it do not reflect dishonour upon God And therefore when he tels you The Spirit speaketh from God heareth from God receiveth from God is sent of God is the gift of God changeth place maketh intercession for us c. The answer in a word is this and it would suffice to stop the mouth of any sober-minded man that all these things are spoken of the Holy Ghost improperly and must be so expounded as may consist with the divine Majesty of the Holy Ghost which is so clearly asserted in other Scriptures as you have heard But I shall add one thing more in the general That we all confess there is an order though not an in equality among the divine Persons and so all that B. objects may be answered if one do apply it to his several Arguments But I come to particulars Object 1. His first Argument is this He that is distinguished from God is not God But the Holy Ghost is distinguished from God Ergo the Holy Ghost is not God Answ To the Major I answer He that is distinguished from God really and substantially is not God so your Major is true otherwise not for there is a modal distinction among the persons and then in your sense the Minor is false for the Holy Ghost is not substantially distinguished