Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	flesh_n	8,072	5	6.9865	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17319	Certaine questions and answeres, concerning the knovvledge of God vvhereunto are adioyned some questions and answeres, concerning the right vse of the law of God : taught publikely by vvay of catechising / by William Burton ...	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1591 (1591)	STC 4167; ESTC S260	79,192	160

Because some make more thereof then of God and his worshippe for all that they can doe and get is little inough for their bellies when they should serue God they serue their bellies beastlie appetites Q. Why are Idoles called gods A. Not because they are so indeed but because Idolaters haue such an opinion of them Q. What other thing doe the Scriptures teach vs of God A. That in this one God are three persons or beings for Mathew saith that Iohn Baptists sawe the holy Ghost descending like a Doue vpon Christ there is one person he heard a voice from heauen saying this is my beloued sonne there is another person and he sawe Christ going out of the water there is a third person And Paul saith thus God saued vs by the washing of the newe birth and renewing of the holie Ghost which he shed on vs aboundantlie thorough Iesus Christ our Sauiour Here be three authors of our saluation Q. How proue you that these three are but one God A. I proue it by the wordes of Saint Iohn there are three that beare witnes in heauen the Father the word and the holie Ghost And these three are one Q. What resemblances can you shewe me of the Trinitie in some thinges which be commonly knowen amongst vs A. The sunne begetteth his owne beames and from thence proceede both light and heate and yet is not one of them before another otherwise then in consideration of order and relation that is to say in respect that the sunne beames are begotten and the light proceeding which is an apparant image and resemblance of the three persons in one God Againe in waters there is the well head the spring boyling out of it and the streame flowing from them both and all these are but one water and so there are three persons in one Godhead and yet but one God Againe from one flame of fire proceede both light and heate and yet but one fire So in God be three persons or beings and yet but one God Q. How do these three persons differ one from another A. Two wayes First according to their names Secondly according to their actions Q. What is the name of the first person A. The first person is called the Father and that in two respects First in respect of his naturall Sonne Iesus Christ begotten of his owne nature and substance Secondly in respect of vs his adopted sonnes Q. Adopted sonnes What meane you by that A. I meane those whome he hath chosen to bee heires of heauen through the mediation of his naturall sonne Iesus Christ. Q. What is the second person called A. The second person is called the sonne of god because he is begotten of his fathers nature and substance not because hee was begotten of the substance of God for so in respecte of substance they be all one but in respect of the father he is called the sonne Q. Where finde you that he is called the sonne A. In Pro. 30.4 What is his name and what is his sonnes name Q. What is the third person called A. The thirde person is called the holy spirite Q. Why is he called a spirite A. For two causes First because he is spiritual without bodie flesh bloud or bones for a spirite hath no such matter as our Sauiour Christ saith Secondly because he is as it were the breath of grace which the father the sonne breatheth out vpon the Saints Q. Why is he called holie spirite A. For two causes First because he is holie by nature Secondly because hee is the sanctifier of the Saints Q. Now shewe mee how they differ according to their actions A. The father begetteth The sonne is begotten The holie Ghost proceedeth Q. How was the sonne of God begotten of his Father A. For the better vnderstanding of this point we must consider that there are two manners of begetting One is carnall and outward and this is subiect to corruption alteration and time The other is spirituall and inwarde as was the begetting of the sonne of God in whose generation there is neither corruption alteration nor time Q. Declare then after what manner this spiritual generation of she sonne of God was and yet in sobrietie according to the scriptures A. For the better finding out of this mysterie we must consider in God two thinges First that in God there is an vnderstanding Psal. 139.2 Secondly we must consider how this vnderstanding is occupied in God Q. Declare after what manner it is in God A. This vnderstanding is his verie being and is euerlastingly and most perfectly occupied in God Q Whereupon doth Gods vnderstanding worke A. Vpon nothing but it selfe and that I proue by reason for God being infinite and all in all it cannot meet with any thing but himselfe Q. What worke doth this vnderstanding in God effect A. It doth vnderstand and conceiue it selfe for as in a glasse a man doth conceiue and beget a perfect image of his owne face so God in beholding and minding of himselfe doth in himselfe beget a most perfect and a most liuely image of himselfe which is that in the Trinitie which wee call the sonne of God Q. Where do you find that the sonne is called the perfect image of God A. Yes he is called the brightnesse of his glory and the ingrauen forme of his person which is all one Q. What meane you by ingraued forme A. That as waxe vpon a seale hath the ingraued forme of the seale so the sonne of God which his father hath begotten of his owne vnderstanding is the verie forme of his fathers vnderstanding so that when the one is seene the other is seene also Q. Why then he is vnderstanding it selfe for so is his father A. Yea he is so and he saith so of himself I haue counsaile and wisedome I am vnderstanding Q. But where finde you that he was begotten A. He saith so himselfe in the name of wisdome in these wordes When there was no depthes then was I begotten Before the mountaines and hils were setled was I begotten Q. Yea he was made the sonne of God when hee was borne of the virgine Marie was he not A. He was in deed then the sonne of God but he was not then made the sonne of God Q. When was he made the sonne of God A. He was neuer made in time for he was begotten of the substance of his Father from all eternitie without beginning or ending Q. How proue you that the sonne of God was not made but begottē eternally of the substāce of his father A. I proue it first by scripture for he saith no lesse himselfe I was set vp from euerlasting from the beginning and before the earth And therefore he prayed that he might be glorified of his father with the glory which he had with his father before the world Secondlie I proue it by reason for Gods