Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	interpretation_n	2,811	5	9.4838	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65864	Enthusiasm above atheism, or, Divine inspiration and immediate illumination (by God Himself) asserted and the children of light vindicated : in answer to a book entituled, The danger of enthusiasm discovered / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1926; ESTC R24552	32,776	82

the other an Effect the one is the absolute VVay or Rule of knowing God and building up in his Knowledge the other a subordinate Help for Direction to that VVay and Rule He who is the true Light lighteth every man that cometh into the VVorld This is not said of his Ministers but they are sent to direct turn men's Minds to the Light I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh saith the Lord But so is it not said of his Ministers though they direct to wait for it I will write my Laws in their Hearts saith the Lord but the doing of this is not asscribed to his Ministers though they bear witness therof Ye have an Unction from the Holy One it is not said Ye have it from the Ministers though it attend their Ministry and they are taught thereby and direct others to it and to abide in it He that establisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God who also worketh all our Works in us It is not said that his Ministers do so establish anoint and work all in us though they be instrumental in God's Hand to direct men to God and Christ who is with them in whom is Life and Salvation and from whom every good and perfect Gift comes and to whom be the Glory and not to man From all which let it be seriously minded First The Eternal Word which is the true Light lighteth every man that cometh into the World in an immediate Way 2dly That the Promise or more plentiful Effusion or Pouring forth of the Spirit is also from God himself and so in an immediate VVay to be made good and fulfilled unto them who walk in and obey that Measure or Degree of his divine Light or immediate Inshining as it is in their Consciences 3dly God also worketh savingly by his Spirit Light and Power in an immediate VVay in the Hearts of his People both by illuminating their Understanding opening their spiritual Eyes reviving their Souls and delivering them from under the Power of Darkness Sin giving them Victory by Faith over Temptations leading them through the spiritual VVarfare and Travils and making them more then Conquerors in all which they have their Dependnece immediately upon God who is a present and immediate Help in Times of Trouble as all that truly wait upon him in his immediate Light and Discoveries do experience Sect III. The Prophecy and Testimony of the New Covenant and Gospel-Dispensation rescued from our Opposer's Perversions BUt to that Prophecy They shall not teach every man his Neighbour and every Man his Brother c. Jer. 31. This Opposer saith Though the Phrase here used seem absolute in Sound yet it may well be understood in a comparative Sense bringing Instances with his restrictive Meanings upon Joh. 6. 26. Hos. 6. 6. Ephes. 6. 12. upon the Particle Not as not so much not only wherein the plain Scripture is not his Rule but his Meaning unfairly added to limit this Prophecy besides the Extent of the VVords for saith he p. 82. The Meaning may be that they shall not so much need to do it that is teach every man under the second Covenant as under the first yet he would have them alwayes teaching and al was learning in a mediate VVay only But indeed saith he the Words and Phrase used here seem to be a Strain of Elegancy oft used in Scriptures when to set forth the great Abundance and Plenty of Things Expressions are used improperly and hyperbolically in reference thereunto and 〈…〉 e not to be understood properly but figuratively Observe here serious Reader that the plain Text of Scripture fore-telling God's writing his Laws in the Hearts of his People that they shall teach no more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord but all should know him This he slightly turns off with this Meaning or May be that they shall not so much need to teach every man his Neighbour saying know the Lord under the second Covenant as under the first yet implying that they shall still much need to say know the Lord under the New Covenant though not so much as under the Old But how agrees this with the plain VVords I will be their God and they shall be my People and they shall no more or they shall not teach every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest see Jer. 31. 33 34. Heb. 8. 10 11. But these Expressions the man reckons are used improperly and hyperbolically and what is his Rule for thus censuring the plain VVords of the Prophet and Apostle and reflecting upon them equally with us as improperly proposing God's Method and New Covenant Way to be his own immediate Teaching and Knowledge of himself wherein they shall not teach every man his Neighbour and yet in Contradiction to himself hath confessed That the Work of Grace in men is most properly attributed to God to Christ c. p. 19. His Instances for such limited Meanings upon several Hyperbolical Expressions supposed in Scripture if granted prove not these very Texts so improper or hyperbolical as he renders them and he evinceth not what his Rule is for thus rendering these particular Texts improper and hyperbolical which so plentifully make for God's immediate Way of Illumination Teaching and VVorking under the New Covenant If he say other Instances of Scripture compared are his Rule herein I must deny that they prove these very Texts lyable to such an Exception or Limitation as he puts upon them If he say that Reason is his Rule then he owns another Rule as Judge and Determiner of the Sense of the Scripture then the Scriptures themselves But if he pretend the Spirit to be his Rule in this then the Scriptures are not Howbeit the Spirit will not contradict its own Sayings in the Scriptures and we do not own his limited Sense Restriction or private Interpretation of such an eminent Prophecy as this of the New Covenant for no Prophecy of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation for the Prophecy came not in Old Time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost And they who deny the immediate Illumination therof are not like truly to understand those Prophecies and Scriptures that proceeded thence And to his asking Why we should so much as once imagine that th●se Words of the Prophet should foretell that under the New Covenant there should be no need of teaching by man's Ministry when the whole Current of the New Testament both in Precept and Example shew the contrary p. 82 83. Which is as much as to say that the whole Current of Scriptures of the New Testament shews that there will be need under the New Covenant of Teaching by man's Min●sty which is to allow the New Covenant no Preheminence above the Old for in the Time of the Old

him and his Spirit be our Rule to know this he must not be limited to Silence or to a being mute from immediately teaching those who are confessed to be made one Spirit with him And what gross Ignorance is it to limit God's Teaching or Saving Illumination to a Mediate or Instrumental Way of Man's Teaching as this Man doth in his denying an Immediate Way of Saving Illumination p. 47. which is all one as if he should tell us that though God dwell and walk in his People yet still they are either Strangers to him or else he is silent from speaking to them except when they hear outward Preaching c. And what is this but to limit the Holy One set him and his People at a Distance when they are his Tabernacle and he dwells and walks in them That God Christ the holy Spirit do by Immediate Illumination of our Minds and without external Teaching by Scriptures or by Men shew us or reveal to us what we ought to do and that the Children of God are taught of God and need not any other Teacher p. 13 14. This he excepts against as quite different from God's Method and VVay wherein he hath opposed plain Scripture Testimony They shall all be taught of God they shall not teach every Man his Neighbour c. But the Anointing which ye have received abideth in you and ye need no Man to teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things c. We do therefore assert the Sufficiency of this Divine Illumination or Heavenly Unction as being of it self able to shew and reveal to us what we ought to believe and do in all things for that it was sufficient both to make true Prophets and Preachers and to inable the Holy Men of God to give forth what they spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost And without the Inspiration of the Almighty men cannot truly understand the Scriptures yet we do not confine the Holy One only to Inward Teaching or an Immediate Way though the Sufficiency thereof to them that are turned to it we do assert yet by this Divine Inspiration or Immediate Teaching God hath been and is pleased to call out Instruments to testifie and preach forth what their Eyes have seen and Ears heard and Hands handled of the Word of Life even the same VVord of Life which they have received and this only is the effectual and powerful Preaching which flows from the VVord of Life or divine Unction within and not that which comes only by Tradition Reading and Hear-say without the Spirit 's Guidance And therefore while we own the holy Scriptures and outward Teaching as proceeding from divine Illumination and the immediate Unction within and as a Proof of the Sufficiency thereof the Man wrongs us in his endeavouring to begeta Suspicion of us as if we had an aking Tooth against outward Teaching of as if the VVork and Office of the Gospel-Ministry it self were the Eye-Sore to us as also with dissembling the Matter heaping Contradictions with Tergiversation and Shuffling p. 83 92 94. And why so but because we teach People give forth Books c. VVhile yet it is our Judgment That Men may be sufficiently taught of God himself by his Light and Spirit within now under the New Covenant p. 93. But how proves he this either a Dissembling or Contradiction when we do not pretend to preach teach or write without God's Teaching and Aid wherein we proclaim the Sufficiency thereof exciting Men to turn from Darkness to the Light and from Satan's Power to God for Power Life Spirit Illumination and Teaching immediately as he hath taught us which is no more Contradiction then was in the Prophets Christ or Apostles who preached and proclaimed the same thing as that all God's People and Children should be taught of him and the Anointing which they had received from the Holy One should teach them so that they should need no Man to teach them but as the same Anointing taught them of all things a plain Proof of its Sufficiency His supposing that we direct Men to a Natural Light in them p. 15. is not true but contrary to his own Citation before of our VVords That God's pure Spirit and the Light of Christ within us as both our VVarrant a●d Rule for Faith and Obedience to the Scriptures which therefore cannot be a Natural Light in them He grants that Jesus Christ himself revealed the Gospel to his Apostles and after his Ascension he by sending them the Holy Spirit immediately inspired them with the clear Knowledge and Understanding of it But for us to assert Immediate Inspiration and the sole Sufficiency thereof he deems now a changing of Gods Method which he confines to Man's Teaching and the Scriptures and yet in plain Contradiction to himself he is made to confess That the Scriptures attribute it viz. the saving Work of Grace to God to Christ to the Holy Spirit p. 18. And further saith Indeed the VVork of Grace in Men is most properly attributed to God to Christ because he is the principal Cause of it and all other but subordinate yet the Effect is some times attributed to subordinate and second Causes also though less properly p. 19. So that we in attributing the saving VVork of Grace in men to God to Christ we take the most proper VVay and Method how then is this contrary to God's Way and Method And our referring Men to his inward Light to be immediately taught by him doth both shew our owning his making Use of Instruments and outward Teaching in order thereto and as subordinate as also that they shall be sufficiently taught of God when they are come unto him to depend upon his Teaching as his Instruments are in their Ministry And this man hath confessed a Concurrence of the Operation of his Grace and good Spirit together with the rational Evidence of the Truth of the Gospel to perswade Men p. 15. And is not this Grace and good Spirit Immediate when it operates in the Hearts though God is pleas'd to make Use of Instruments for the Help and Advantage of the weak it follows not that either there shall be alwayes need of such a mediate Way of Help or that he will not immediately teach and operate in these Dayes for that were still to limit him and his People to a Distance one from another whereas it is confessed That the VVork of Grace in M●n is most properly attributed to God and less properly to subordinate and second Causes But saith this man The Holy Spirit works the saving Change in Men still by the VVord of the Gospel as communicated to Men's Minds by the Scriptures or by Men's Teaching the same Doctrine which is contained in the Scriptures And this in Opposition to our Way as he calls it of God's own Immediate Working p. 16. where observe First He limits the Spirit 's inward Work either to the Scriptures or mens Teaching which