Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	father_n	lord_n	7,082	5	3.7016	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67409	A sixth letter, concerning the sacred Trinity in answer to a book entituled, Observations on the four letters, &c. / by John Wallis ...	Wallis, John, 1616-1703.	1691 (1691)	Wing W605; ESTC R17999	12,230	22

till that time But he was the only true God from all Eternity and therefore not with this Reduplication as Father of our Lord Iesus Christ. For he was the only true God according to their Doctrine long before the Man Christ had a Father and would so have been though this Man had never been And though Christ speak to him as His Father yet the title of the only true God he ascribes to him as God If Solomon should have said to David Thou Father art King of Israel he was not therefore King of Israel as Father of Solomon for he was so long before he was Solomon's Father Which takes away all colour of our Observator's imaginary contradiction here pretended and leaves not the least umbrage for it As little force is there in his other cavil p. 18. If the Father and Son be the onely true God then not the Holy-Ghost Yes the Holy-Ghost also For though it be not here Affirmed yet neither is it here Denied But these Objections of his have been so often brought and so often answered that 't is tedious to see the same things brought so often over and over again The like I say of what he repeats from 1 Cor. 8. 6. which is answered sufficiently Let. iii. p. 52. Nor is it at all strange or uncommon that the word Father should be sometime spoken of God personally considered as Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and sometime of God indefinitely according to his Essence without respect to this or that Person Father of Spirits Heb. 12. 9. Doubtless thou art our Father Thou O Lord art our Father and our Redeemer Isai. 63. 16. Thou shalt call me My Father Jer. 3. 4 19. which the Socinians must not say to be meant as to his Personality as Father of our Lord Iesus Christ for such they say he then was not but as to his Essence The everlasting Father Isai. 9. 6. spoken of Christ not as to his Personality for so he was Son but as to his Essence As to what he objects p. 19. to that of Rom. 9. 5. Christ who is over all God blessed for ever Amen I refer to what is said Let. iii. p. 57. too large to repeat here But how Amen which is a word of Asseveration should make it Nonsense I do not understand And what was said of God indefinitely Rev. 1. 4. is said particularly of Christ ver 8. Who was dead and is alive ver 17 18. which description of Christ in particular he had begun at ver 5. and continues beyond this place If he deny it let the Reader judge As to that of 1 Ioh. 5. 7. I refer to what hath been said already I think there is not much more to be said thereof on either side than had been said long before either He or I began to write And if after all he resolve to hold to his opinion he must give me leave to retain mine And let the Reader judge as he sees cause And so for that of Matt. 28. 19. As to all in all those Leters to which he makes no Reply it stands as it did And if the Reader please to read them over again he will be able to judge whether it be all so contemptible as to have nothing of Weight in it I have said nothing to his Blustring and Contemptuous Language his Canting or rather Railing against Schools Metaphysicks Mother Church Alma Mater Academia School-terms Gothish and Vandelick terms Abstract Concrete as if Long and Length were all one and all one to say David was Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Israel was Father to Solomon as to say this of the King of Israel and other the like To which he is wont to run out when he hath little else to say but would seem to say somewhat to make a Noise Because the Reader would know without my telling him that this is Raving rather than Arguing And when he tells us so often of The Brief History of the Vnitarians why might not I as well tell him that Doctor Sherlock had answered it and means I suppose to Vindicate that Answer if he think there be need So when he runs Division upon Imperial Edicts Confiscations and Banishments seizing and burning of Books Capital punishments Fire and Fagot with many other things wherein I am not concern'd What is all this to me I do not know that I ever did him any hurt unless by discovering his Errors I was only Arguing as a Disputant not making Laws As little need be said of a many little things as little to the purpose As whether my Third Letter were not rather a Book Whether the things which God hath prepared for them that love him are the Onely deep things of God which we cannot comprehend or the Onely secret things which belong to God while things Revealed belong to us Whether what I knew forty years ago I had been studying and considering forty years without thinking of ought else all the while which certainly I could not be for I was then forty years old Whether it be better English to say God the Creator God the Redeemer and God the Sanctifier ARE or IS but one God Whether Vnum in the Neuter Gender put absolute without a Substantive do not usually signifie One Thing Whether the word Trinitas be a pure Latin or a Barbarous Word not to be found in Tully any more than Vnitarian Whether Tres or Trinitas be the better Latin-word Whether what in his former Letter p. 9. were but old-fashioned Notions be now in this last New and Cautious with other the like But besides in these and many others he cavils without a cause what 's all this to the Business in hand Or how doth it contradict what I affirm viz. That What in one Consideration are Three may in another Consideration be but One. That We may safely say without Absurdity Contradiction or Inconsistence with Reason there may be in God Three Somewhats which we commonly call Persons that are but One God That These Three are more than three Names but not three Gods That God the Creator God the Redeemer and God the Sanctifier otherwise called God the Father God the Son and God the Holy-Ghost are such Three I see nothing of what he hath said doth overthrow any of These March 14. 1690 1. Yours I. Wallis