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	part_n	soul_n	20,019	5	5.7069	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52204	The middle way of predetermination asserted. Between the Dominicans and Jesuites, Calvinists and Arminians, or, A scriptural enquiry into the influence and causation of God in and unto humane actions; expecially such as are sinfull.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; W. M.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3692A; Wing M95B; ESTC R10732	43,527	48

of Religion to depend on the stating of the same Some affirm a Physical predetermination of God of all and every the Acts and Operations of man such Physical precurse and efficient pre-exciting and determining influence they assert to accompany and to be necessary also to the specification of any Act whatsoever whether good or evil as that without which the Creature could never act or determine its self at all To me it seems hard to make out whether there be any such way of Gods determination of man as that termed Physical in Contradistinction to Moral though here as to good I would mo●t readily admit it for to evil I do peremptorily deny it I mean to good actions for it's non-sense to speak of Predetermination Physical or Moral either to ought but the act or action which is good or evil upon an account Adventitious and Extrinsecal to its self as related to Law What it is I say that God doth in the Conversion of a sinner as to the way of working that first Turn to himself seems to me difficult to find out Joh. 3.8 If such a Physical operation there be terminating on the entity of the Soul it must as well reach the body too the Ministerial and Organical parts which are also said to be sanctified 2 Thes 5.23 it may consist in the suscitation or elevation of its natural faculties rendring them capable of taking in a new Impression or irradiation from the Word and Spirit to which the soul was disabled before which some understand by Vivification or Quickning 1 Cor. 15.45 Eph. 2.1 and opening the Heart Act. 16.14 and Understanding Luk. 24.45 Bending also and applying the Faculty to the Object in order to its receiving of the Impress and stamp thereof upon it Job 33.16 the Signature of Truth upon the Mind and Heart all which I deny not but still evident it is That God worketh not any Moral Change on the Understanding otherwise than objectively also by offering Reason to it or proposing that before it which invincibly bindeth it to an admittance thereof Hos 11.4 and the Gospel is the deepest Reason and Faith the most solid Understanding Mat. 13.44 45. Isa 1.18 the Word of God is the Seed of the New Birth out of all question Jam. 1.18 1 Pet. 1.23 and that as proposed to the mind 1 Cor. 4.15 and intertained there Jam. 1.21 Nor doth God work on the Will or Affections or Executive power in Conversion otherwise than Mediante ratione by the intervention of Reason 1 Cor. 2.4 not by any Physical attingency immediately but by Moral Suasion and Objective Proposal by the Mind the eye of the Soul God shall perswade Japhet Gen 9.27 By objective Proposal and moral Suasion I do not intend onely that of God Externally in his Word Commanding Perswading Counselling c. or in and by the Ministry of Man but moreover his Internal application to the Soul in the Ministry of the Word or otherwise where yet the Word is the Instrument in the hand of the Spirit working in a Moral way efficiently too in a Sense yet not modo Physico after the manner of a real Impulse or proper Physical Action or Causation God knoweth how to reach the Reason and Elective Faculty the main Springs of the Soul and how to fasten a Nail there Eccl. 12.11 a fit Word spoken on his Wheeles Prov. 25.11 how to catch the Soul e're it is aware Luk. 5.10 to allure and draw Cant. 1.4 not motu physico by proper physical determination I take it but by convincing Reason and Teaching Instructing with a strong hand Isa 8.11 Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me Joh. 6.44 45. is made Willing Psal 110.3 the Stony Heart all Prepossession and Aversation against God and Godliness is removed Ezek. 36.26 and its sense of things is changed Rom. 8.5 and the new man is put on viz. in a Moral sense Eph. 4.24 the propension and inclination of the Subject altered and changed and become a radicated Principle in the Soul disposing it unto Holiness If the Devil can so far overmatch the Understanding of man when by God left to his delusions that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an effectual working is ascribed to him 2 Thes 2 9. Whom yet all acknowledge to work only morally and objectively 1 King 22.21 Who can say but that God who is more intimate to man than he is to himself can so accommodate his Word and follow it by Internal suggestion so fit it as a key to the he●●t of the sinner fast lo●ked against him as to shoot aside the bolt the d●ssenting power and to overperswade and invincibly determine him to ●●●●o●●osse repudiaere an mpossi●ility of withstanding any longer the Call of C●rist or to a free yet certain entertainment of it without such a physical influx as some insist so much upon flecting the will and predetermining 〈◊〉 in its operation and specification of its Acts in a way contradisti●ct to that we are speaking of and wherein it is not concerned The Natural faculties of the soul its powers of understanding reasoning assent●ng willing and its affections of loving hating c. are out of doubt à primà causâ from God as the first cause who giveth Being to all things and the exertion of those powers into act in line â physicâ is from him they are dependent Beings and cannot reduce themselves into act or exercise without his influence or assistance And that in the way of physi●al concurse and cooperat●on before and after conversion the same Act. 26.22 and moreover it 's with me out of question that the Lord doth anticipate and prevent the soul in a more than ordinary way in its first Turn to him Jer. 31.18 2 Tim. 2.25 rectifying all the powers of the soul the mind will affections c. Turning them to their right Object and d●sposing them to their right Use and End that he specifieth and determineth the souls Acts and operations in conversion which is their modification as well as concurreth to their Entity or enableth to their existence in the general as acts or actions The question only is whether this determination of the natural powers of the soul to a beleivi●g in God a liking loving willing chusing of the things of God or of the Spirit directly opposite to the channel wherein the soul in the egress or exercise of those powers or acts ran before that whilst it believed the Devil rather than God liked and preferred the world and the pleasing of the flesh above the pleasing of God loved sin and hated strict piety whether I say God doth change the course of the soul and determine its operations as before I mean give to will and to do yea effectually cause so to do by any physical Precurse or Predetermination distinct or different from the power which he lendeth to enable the creature to all and every its natural motions and operations or which himself evermore exorteth