Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	quicken_v	5,163	5	10.2542	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08318	The nevv Gospel, not the true Gospel. Or, A discovery of the life and death, doctrin, and doings of Mr. Iohn Traske, and the effects of all, in his followers Wherein a mysterie of iniquity is briefly disclosed, a seducer unmasked, and all warned to beware of imposters. As also a confutation of the uncomfortable error, of Mr. Boye, concerning the plague, out of Psal. 91. By Edvv. Norice.	Norris, Edward, 1584-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 18645; ESTC S113242	39,058	60

as mingled with uncleannesse but as distinct absolutely from the flesh as being an other nature yea a participation of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1.3.4 which though it make up one person yet is none at all of the old man nor of the old creation but it is that new Creation that new heart and that spirit of God which is bestowed upon us Ezek. 11.19 which yeeldeth no new habits in the flesh as if that were changed or renewed but is subsisting of it selfe that it is of power to manifest it selfe by acts of quickning and reviving and enabling this mortall flesh as the life of Iesus in it c. neither is it the sanctified person that hath any habit of grace in his flesh but the Lord Jesus dwelling in him doth put forth the bright beames of his glory in such vertues as do best fit the time and place in which he lives Rom. 8.9 2 Cor. 1.8 9. Here is his mysterie tending as much to the edification of the people as if he had read to them a Lecture of Arabick or cast dust in their eyes to make them see for first he denies sanctification to be by the spirit in ourselves then he grants it to be in our selves but not in the flesh then it is by the spirit as we understand it of his operations yet there are no new habits in the flesh as if that were changed at all but then that it doth quicken our mortall bodies and yet not as joyned with the flesh but absolutely distinct by it selfe it sendeth forth Acts as the life of Iesus in it wherin he utterly denyeth regeneration sanctification or any change of nature at all in the sanctified person who only is sanctified by the presence of Christ in him which hee calls his union with Christ but not by any reall work of the spirit in any faculty of the soule nor by any change at all wrought in the heart but it remaines as carnall and sensuall as it was before the spirits entrance a strange and monstrous peece of doctrin See the contrary in Mark 9.49 Iohn 3.8 Rom. 8.9 1 Cor. 6.11 1 Pet. 1.2 1 Thes 5.23 denying the very Articles of our Christian faith and one of the chiefest priviledges of a true Christian which is to be regenerate by the spirit of God affirming a man to bee sanctified without any grace or goodnesse but even as he was borne in puris naturalibus and in that state to have Christ living in him a pestilent and blasphemous opinion And that the Reader may see this to be his positive doctrin deliberately set down I think meet to lay before his eyes a short tract of this point made by him of purpose as it seemes to doctrinate his disciples withall wherin the marrow of this Seducers divinity is disclosed and it is this that followeth It s a thing to be considered what the new creature is A treatise of the old man and the new that new man that seed of God which is borne of the spirit it is not any renovation of the old man that which is borne of the flesh the fallen man for that 's from beneath this from above that 's from the earth this from heaven a new creation of nothing as in the creation of the world so that the inward or new man differ as much from the outward or old as the godly nature of Christ doth differ from his manly nature and both these natures together make but one person as in him this is the reason that he which is borne of God sinneth not nor can sin Note for it is a partaking of the godly nature and such are as perfect as ever they shall be although not in manifestation and yet the old man is as imperfect as ever it was for the new creature is not the mutation or change of the understanding from darknesse to light for then there should no darknesse remaine Sound reasoning à nen perfecto ad nihil nor a change of the will from crooked to streight for then should no perversenesse remaine nor any ordering of the same affections for so all disorder were put away nor yet a change of the memory for so were the memory without defect for this understanding will affections memory and the rest are gifts from heaven and must of necessity be perfect without any defect or superfluity for our first generation as borne of parents is totally fallen and cannot be recovered here but our regeneration is wholly perfect and can never be corrupted or sinne againe for take it in the parts what is repentance or faith or love or joy or any of the rest are they not the gifts of God and are not Gods gifts all perfect and without blemish But are they so in us These being distinct in our minds as the divine and humane natures of Christ in that one person we shall not impute * Yet David said I have sinned Psal 51. our sinnes to our selves nor yet our good so confusedly as in times past the flesh or old man shall have no glory of any good is done nor the spirit or new man any shame of the evill or sinne that the flesh commits it will nt only enable us to know our owne estates but the holy Scriptures and we shall see the vanity The best writers with vanity and folly in a ground of faith and folly of the most if not all writers who put all the work upon the change wrought in this flesh which can never bee changed So strange a piece of stuffe as I think need no further opening or confuting to them that have understanding but for such as are blinded with partiality I would propose but these few Quaeres to consider off and resolve by Scripture 1. Whether the Divine and humane natures of Christ be fit instances in this case seeing his divine nature contained the fulnesse of the God-head and his humane nature was perfect and without spot of sin Col. 2.9 1 Pet. 1.19 especially propounding it as he doth without exception or difference of nature or persons between him and us as if the case were in manner one and the resemblance in all things equall which may open a gap to many blasphemous errors about the union and the natures themselves 2. Whether the creation of the world of nothing be a resemblance in all things sutable as he also makes it to the work of regeneration seeing there was no praeexistent matter at all to work upon but the very substances were created here is matter praeexistent as the understanding will and affections only new qualities are created in them from what they had before by which meanes the same faculties are made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the weapons of righteousnesse to God Rom. 6.13 that were before only the weapons of unrighteousnesse to sinne and then are not the faculties themselves for substance sent new from heaven as he dreameth but only the old