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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	dead_a	death_n	quicken_v	3,267	5	10.4250	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29283	The unknown being of the spirit, soul, and body, anatomized wherein very many Scriptures falsly translated, and corruptly interpreted are clearly explained, by which, many doctrines now taught that subvert the faith of the gospel are discovered / written by him that is unworthy to be a witness of divine truth, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4334; ESTC R15656	55,170	70

be uttered Ver. 27. He that searcheth the heart knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit because he makes intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Note Where by the Spirit and Spirit it selfe the Spirit of Christ sent forth of God into the hearts of Saints be not intended is commended to your judgements to consider of or where the Spirit the Holy 1 Because here is no especial epithite to it as usually given to God the Spirit 2 It is the spirit of intercession which is the Spirit of Christ stirring up in us sighs and groans as in him 3 Bearing our infirmities which is done by Christ as man Heb. 4.15 and c. 5 2. Act. 9 4. 4 God the searcher of the heart is put as distinct from the Spirit of Christ in the heart who is said to intercede according to the Will of God 5 This Spirit is not ours as it is not Gods for saith he Wee know not what we should pray for as we ought whereby we is meant the whole regenerate man who without Christs Spirit assist him in prayer knows not how to pray nor for what to pray as he ought Appli If this be truth the Doctrine taught makes Christ void and in him God is put off from us because none can come to the Father but by him Illust. To set before your eyes the spirits resurrection see it fulfilled in Cyrus a heathen lying under a dead spirit when quickened works wonderfull things Hag. 1.15 2 Chron. 36.22 he is not that man he was before The excellency of Christs Spirits operation in the Elect is wonderful and precious 1 The Spirit of life in Jesus Christ gave the new Law or Covenant as Moses the Mediator of the Old gave that by which we are freed from Moses Law called the Law of sin and death Rom. 8.2 2 It is called the Law of the spirit of life 1 None being under this Law untill quickened by the Spirit of life but were under the law of death 2 It is the law of the spirit of life in which those made alive must walk in and live under it as its Law as Moses Disciples under its 3 This Law was for the spirit to walke with God in when men are said to walk in the spirit and live in the spirit when men are onely said to please God 4 That this is meant of ours and Christs Spirit because opposed to the flesh which cannot walke in this Law Rom. 8.8 Note It is one means by which the Spirit of Christ is distinguished from God the Spirit is that which commeth by hearing Gal. 3.2 5. which differs far from that Act. 10.44 called the Holy Ghost said to fall on them having the gift of tongues The Spirit of God after is given for confirmation of such as doe beleeve Eph. 4.30 and manifested it selfe in dreams visions tongues discerning of spirits prophesie The Spirit of Christ worketh faith love desires Gal. 5.22 which Origen would have to be meant of the regenerate man 's own Spirit which indeed is a fruit of the Spirit of Christ in us for of our selves we are not able to think a good thought It is Christ that worketh all in all Illust Act. 8.12 People of Samaria Beleeved Phillip which was the act of the spirit of Christ in them who yet ver 16. are said none of them to have received the Holy Ghost though by the first the Spirit of Christ they were baptized and so said to be Christs ver 16. after which ver 17. they were established having the Holy Spirit powred out upon them by the laying on of hands by the Apostle the one is mediately by hearing given men the other since the Apostles daies immediately of God 1 To this being of Christ in his Spirit in the Saints the Apostle eminently alludes saying Christ in you is the hope of glory as Col. 1.27 now if he have the Spirit of God in him God is in him if of Christ Christ is in him 2 By the Spirit of Christ before he hath the Spirit of God in him he hath the hope of glory but not the seale of glory which distinguisheth the spirits in their distinct operations 3 Thus the Apostle 2 Cor. 13.3 Since yee seeke a proofe of Christ speaking in me which to you ward is not weak but is mighty in you Ver. 5. Know you not Jesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates Rom. 8.9 10. If any have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his And if Christ be in you that is by his Spirit as before the body is dead because of sinne but the spirit that is mans spirit is life being quickened because of righteousnesse Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me the life that I now live is by faith in the Son of God which comes by hearing and is an effect of the Spirit of Christ sent out of God the Spirit as well as Father unto the heart of sons Ephes 3.17 Christ lives in the heart by faith 4 The use of this spirit is hinted at Phil. 1.19 This shall turn to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Act. 16.7 Some translations read The Spirit of Jesus suffered them not 5. Joh. 3.5 Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Here by Spirit I understand the Spirit of Christ by which he is one Spirit with the Lord and grafted unto him by baptisme Reas 1. It is not said the Holy Spirit but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Spirit only as before 2. Ver. 12. In this saying Christ tels them he told them of earthly things it being to be done by the quickening Spirit of Christs humanity assisted thereunto by his divine power 3 Hence it is the Scripture saith he that is in Christ is a new creature 4. Vers 6. That is born of the Spirit signifies that regeneration is by Christs Spirit onely not of our Spirits The Spirit of Christ working Faith and Obedience to Christ in Baptisme in which is regeneration Application 1. Men are taught that there is no other Spirit but God the Spirit who worketh these and all that have any of these have the gift of the Spirit of God 2 The Spirit of Christ which worketh these is not known men oppose against it and deny it to be who yet would be Christians 3 Hence as Christ said to his Disciples so the men of this age know not what spirits they are of that have the Spirit of Christ in them and not the Spirit of God 4 Few men have the Spirit of God and they that have it have it in a hidden way which is by dreams and visions being all that as I know of as yet accompanies the gift of the Spirit of God in these daies to which I might say something or may do when

putrit in terra nisi corpora quae in terr●ponuntur in qua semina jactantur propter hoc dixit seminatur in ignobilitate surgit in gloria Idem Quemadmodum enim corruptelae est capax caro sic incorruptelae quemadmodum mortis sic vitae Concerning the two Opinions of the soule 1 Whether the soule dyeth and lyeth with the body in the grave 2 Whether it sleep in the body as the life in the seed sown There is no destruction of the faith whether we understand one or the other 1 Because both agree that it is in the grave 2 Sleep and death are as one to it sleep is imago mortis 3 Both agree that it injoys not God for the time of its being in the grave 4 That it is with the body to partake of the resurrection if it bee dead it must be quickened and that as the mortall body if asleep then it must be awakened Origen de principiis de anima Lib. 2. Haec de rationali anima discutienda magis à legentibus quamstatuta definitia protulimus Hierm Ep. to Vigilan Lib. 3. Epist God is not the God of the dead but of the living Mark 12. I am the God of Abraham which he applies to the soule but indeed is more proper to the spirit now of the soule he useth Rev. 6. Ais enim in sinu Abrabae vel in loco refrigerii vel subter aram Dei animas Apostolorum vel Martyrum consedisse nec posse suiis tumulis ubi voluerint adesse praesentes 1 Those men whose bodies were burned given to beasts and destroyed not buried their soules as wanting the grave and place of rest for souls are said to be under the Altar 2 No other souls have that benefit but rest with their bodies 3 The reason Because they are not in the grave and with their body or in Heaven where they would be 4 Have they no better place for the spirit which the Scripture saith is with God Clemens Ep. on James alludes to this but is strangely corrupted so as not fit to be cited he tels that as a reward of God Enoch that was found just remained longer in the body others translated to Paradice others not so just their bodies are dissolved but souls in pleasant places that in the resurrection of the dead their bodies should receive and injoy the eternall inheritance And here because of what my adversaries may clandestinely abuse me and the truth calling it Socinianism Arminianism or the like Note I declare against their doctrine 1 That what now men against the Scriptures among us falsly attribute to the soule that I hold is in Scripture given to the spirit who suffers at its departure out of the body by the death of the soule weal with God or woe with Satan and sinners 2 The souls of good and bad whiles dead or a sleep remain so until the resurrection of the body at the last day 3 That good and bad then shall in soule body and spirit be raised united and judged by Jesus Christ and suffer in all evill of pain and losse if reprobates and injoy blessednesse and joy if they belong to Gods election 4 It shall be the same body soule and spirit and not others against the Doctrine of the Remonstants and Socinians which I could sufficiently prove but that it is not my purpose at this time to speak any more hereunto then to prevent offences and scandals that may arise either through the disaffection or mis understanding of men To understand what the Spirit of Christ is to us by the help of the divine Essence of the God-head assisting the same thereunto is of speciall concernment 1 CHrist speaking of his humane spirit saith Job 6.63 It is the Spirit quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing here by Spirit is meant that more excellent part of the humane nature in Scripture opposed to flesh 2 1 Cor. 15.45 The first man Adam by sin came to be a living soule the last Adam a live-making spirit Christ being made and fitted of God on purpose to quicken the spirits of men dead in them by Adams sin in which the great mystery of the Gospel is hid Joh. 5.21 As the Father raiseth and maketh alive the dead which was Christ Act. 3.15 and 4.10 and 5.30 and 13.30 whom God made a quickening Spirit and raised his dead soule and body from their several deaths So the Son maketh alive whom he will which is the spirituall work of Christs spirit on the spirits of the Elect with which compare 1 Cor. 15.21 As by man came death also by man came the resurrection of the dead Ver. 22. As in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all be made alive to whom as Mediator before the giving up of the Kingdom death shall be done away and put under his feet in which is the utter overthrow of death c. But to return John 5.26 As the Father hath life in himselfe in the raising of Christ so he gave the Son to have life in himselfe Ver. 24. That whosoever beleeveth in him that sent him and heareth his word might have eternal life and not come into judgement but hath passed from death unto life which of necessity must be meant of the spirits death and quickening 1 Note This quickening of the spirit and passing from death to life is called the first resurrection Revel 20.5 It being the sole work of Christ in the time of grace to quicken the spirits of the Elect and to make them partakers of this first resurrection which precedes that of the soul and body so that the resurrection which men have by the soule and body of Christ at the last day is no profit to that man who is not first raised or quickened by the spirit to the first resurrection 2 This is opened 2 Cor. 4.14 Knowing he who raised the Lord Jesus also doth raise us by Jesus and shall present us with you Rom. 8.9 Yee are not in the flesh but in the spirit if the spirit of God dwell in you but if any have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his 1 You have the Spirit of God said to dwel in men 2 The having of the Spirit of Christ 3 Without the one man cannot please God without the other he is not Christs Ver. 14. Those are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God Gal. 4.6 Into whose hearts because they are Sons God by his Spirit sends forth the Spirit of his Son teaching them to cry abba Pather The Spirit of God is usually called the Spirit of promise the Spirit the holy which we read the Holy Spirit the Spirit of God given as a seale of the grace of God in Christ to man and the worke done on them Rom. 8.26 The spirit also helpeth our infirmities for wee know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh intercession for us with groans that cannot