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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77291	The divinity of the Trinity cleared, by wiping off the false glosses put upon several places of Scripture by Mr. John Biddle, in his book intituled The apostolical and true opinion touching the Holy Trinity, &c. Written by a very learned man, lately deceased.	Brayne, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4322; Thomason E809_25; ESTC R19017	31,675	32

the flesh which was his coming forth from God according to the flesh man according to his coming forth from God he was God And here I cannot pass by Mr. Biddles paradoxical exposition made on Rom. 1.3 4. compare Heb. 9.14 Who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God which he compares with the spirit of holiness and indeed are one but not as he makes them who by the eternal Spirit understands not the Spirit God but the body of Christ made a spirit 1. The whole Scriptures say not that the Body of Christ risen or any other is made a spirit but a spiritual body concretive not a spirit 1 Cor. 15.44 which is done in that mortal shall put on immortality corruptible incorruption 2. He offered himself to God which sure if Mr. Biddle dreams not himself was his Body Soul and Spirit all according to the flesh by an eternal spirit which was not by himself but by the Spirit as distinct from himself man which was offered up 3. By this spirit of holiness or divine being he was declared to be the Son of God to Thomas who seeing him was dead risen again saw that he was thereby declared to be the Son of God in power John 20.28 death not being able to hold him because stronger then it 4. This spirit was the divine nature or being in Christ and therefore not called the holy Spirit of which he saith John 2.19 Destroy this Temple and in three dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will raise it it is not said the holy Spirit or the Father or God will raise it but I will raise it And that these words made Thomas call him Lord and God appears from ver 22. therefore when he was risen from the dead his Disciples remembred that he said this unto them and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken who looked on him as raising himself And thus the high Priests and Pharisees Mat. 27.63 This deceiver said whilst he was yet living After three dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will raise it again and then ver 64. and his disciples steal him away and say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is risen from the dead and John 10.18 he saith I have power to lay down my life and I have power to take it again Now in that he saith No man taketh my soul from me shews the reason why the humanity cryes out to the divinity My God my God why hast thou forsaken me in that he left it to death which whilst it supported it it could not die nor be overcome of death This is notably illustrated in the healing the woman diseased with the bloody Issue who being secretly healed Christ said That he sound vertue went forth from him which proves that Christ was very sensible of the going forth of vertue and the desisting of vertue in it self Luke 8.46 how sensible must it then be when life must be laid down and given up by it self to death Mat. 27.46 Hence in the Greek it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eli not Jehovah nor Elohim without an Article signfying a diminitive and proper to God as came out from God properly owned of the humanity as its God who by its withdrawing vertue from him felt himself weakned and given up thereby to death compare Acts 2.24 and 4.10 and it proves Jesus to be God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quest How came this divine nature into the humane Resp In the holy Spirits making him according to the flesh the Son is foretold Psalm 72.6 prophetically to come down like rain into a fleece of wool which was done in his being in the womb of the Virgin I come now to speak of that Mr. Biddle calls the third person of the holy Trinity viz. the holy Spirit which he sometimes takes to be that spirit in Scripture which is onely called the spirit and not the holy Spirit which distinguisheth them clearly thereby it being no other then the humane spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ But that the Spirit the holy or the holy Spirit is of the Elohims and in Jehovah and so indeed of the Trinity being one of one and the same nature having one and the same name with the Father and Son appears 1. Elohim is of the plural number not dual and so more then two are meant thereby 2. And no more then three because the old and new Testaments onely speak of three as one in Jehovah of the Father abiding in the excellent glory and the Son and the holy Spirit coming forth from thence and no more 1 John 5.7 3. So that to preach from the Gospel a Trinity consisting of a divine and infinite being and of a Man-God and an Angelical created spirit is a thing forbidden of God Exod. ●0 2 Thou shalt have no other Elohims before me that is no other but those that are in the one Jehovah which these are not being indeed feigned things and false not in Jehovah nor Jehovah he himself says the contrary of them And in this Scripture that Elohims in Jehovah are more then two is clear and that to render Elohims by God as now taken is not according to God And as for that supposed distinction of the Spirit of God and so he is thereby distinguished from God it is no more truth then if a man should say that the Scripture speaking of the spirit of man hath thereby distinguished it from man when man is not nor can be man without his spirit so nor is the true God God to any without his spirit 1 Cor. 2.11 As for the Spirit 's not staying within God as mans within him it is to shew the infinite being of the Spirit whose abode and being in God is not as mans spirit in his minde as confined to a place in God The Son in coming out from God the uncreated and incommunicable state of the Elohims in Jehovah came into the world uniting himself to the man Christ Jesus or to the created being of man in which he came into the world but as for the Spirit he came forth from the Father in the uncreated and incommunicable state of Elohims Joh. 16.27 28. and as the Son is distinctly said to come forth from the Father Joh. 15.26 But he is not said to come forth from God as the Son is nor to come into the world that is that he is become one with any created substance Hence it was the form of a dove not a dove he was said to descend in it being given for a signe to reveal Christ by that the Spirit must visibly descend on one man amongst many so that it may from all other set him out to John to know him by And then it must come from heaven lest men should take the likeness of the dove to be an ordinary dove indeed who is no more confined to heaven then Jehovah is where Jehovah is his Spirit is as he is The end being this as Joh. 1.32 33.

how vain is it to argue That the Spirit goeth from one place to another and is not infinite and cannot be God I hope Mr. Biddle will not say that the holy Spirit of God was confined to that dove-like shape if not what is all that he hath asserted therein When Jehovah Elohims are said to descend Gen. 11.7 do they therefore go from one place to another in their essence Again the Spirit of God is not said to come into the world as the Son is said he being not joyned to any nature created as angels or men much less may he be said to be a creature or a part of the world as all creatures are whatever The very expression of God Joel 3.1 Acts 2.17 It shall come to pass says Jehovah in the last days I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh proves that what is said of it is not said of any Angel or other created Spirit it being not in their nature or being to be so poured out who in us is still the Spirit of God distinct from our spirits As for Mr. Biddle's saying he was sent by a man he must first prove Jesus Christ the Son of God is meer man which is petitio principii and then that he is less then the man Christ And to be sent to see them in which as the Son he humbled himself and was less then the Father less then the Son who sent him Joh. 14.26 And then he heard from him as man when the Word indeed says He shall take of mine but not He shall hear of me Joh. 16.14 and in vers 13. What he shall hear that he shall speak it is not said What he shall hear of me in which there is theft from the Spirit This hearing of the Spirit is not a hearing of creatures in the way of man though our hearing helps to demonstrate it symbolically My purpose is to be brief herein consider well I pray 2 Cor. 2.3 the Corinthians are an epistle of Christ written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God of which Spirit they were Ministers and by which they were quickned vers 6. Vers 8. their Ministery is called the ministery of the Spirit that reveals truth teacheth leadeth sanctifieth comforteth assisteth and helpeth infirmities in a word helps to profit by preaching and assists in prayer to Jehovah Now lest this spirit should be thought to be the humane spirit of Christ as in many places of Scripture or a created spirit vers 17. The Lord is the Spirit By 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the New Testament is meant either Jehovah or Christ but it appears that by the Lord here is meant Jehovah who is that Spirit called The Spirit of the living God vers 3. and that ministreth vers 8. and therefore concludes Where the Spirit of Jehovah is there is liberty Vers 8. he clears this saying We all with open face beholding the glory of the Lord are changed from or changed into the same image from glory to glory even as of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord the Spirit 1. See vers 3. the Epistle is Christs written with the Spirit of the living God on which is the rise of the Apostles speech and the Lord Christ and the Lord the Spirit distinguished 2. So here is the Lord Christ in the 18 verse into whose image men are changed as distinct and admits not place for his Spirit of holiness and everlasting Spirit 3. The Lord the Spirit that is Jehovah the holy Spirit of whom this change is thus made in men as the efficient cause thereof 4. Vers 8. The means how it 's effected and that is by the ministery of the Spirit In which we may see that the holy Spirit of God is the Lord Jehovah though in his ministery and though not called the holy Spirit yet the Spirit of God which Mr. Biddle distinguisheth from God Who yet humbled himself not onely in beholding things above but in beholding things on earth so as to come forth from the Father to see them Joh. 14.26 And Joh. 16.13 he speaks not of his own but what he hears He glorifies Jesus Christ the Son of God to man Joh. 16.14 In a word he is sent to carry on the work of God in saving man The Father had begun the Son had furthered and now he comes to finish it ministring life and power to the means appointed by the Lord Jesus to be used in the revealing the Lord therein in power which is called 2 Cor. 3.8 the ministry of the Spirit All which undertakings of the Spirit do not destroy his Deity nor being no more then that of the Sons undertaking for man nor is there apparent in what he doth to destroy it as in what the Son did who came out from God and from the Father into the world when it is not said so of the Spirit who though he ministreth is Jehovah the Spirit Object But says Mr. Biddle There is but one Lord therefore the Lord the Spirit is the Lord Jesus Resp There is indeed by way of eminencie but one man made Lord of God that is Jesus Christ 2. This denies not Jehovah to be Lord and so not the Lord the Spirit who made Jesus Lord and Christ I remember Mr. Biddle makes use of Joh. 17.3 This is eternal life that they may know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Now says he here is no mention of the Spirit to be God nor of the knowledge of him to be eternal life Resp 1. By God is meant here Jehovah Father Son and Spirit 2. It is but onely Jesus Christ intended as distinct from the Son spoke distinctly of vers 1. 2. 3. But if any plead the Son was sent and intended here yet the Spirit is not excluded from Jehovah who came not forth from God though from the Father and the Son because as yet not distinctly sent forth the Spirit not coming forth until Christ was ascended Joh. 16.7 and 7.39 4. But say they this was spoken to the Father onely as the onely true God True not excluding the Spirit and Son onely this he abode in the excellent glory the Son came forth and the Spirit was to come forth 5. By Father is not simply meant that hypostasis in Jehovah called the Father but Jehovah that Elohim begetting the Son nor the Son that hypostasis of the Son the Elohim but the Son Jehovah is begotten in Jehovah the Father yet all one Jehovah in which the Father and Son are one and the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father Joh. 14.11 Joh. 10.30 6. To know the Father to be an Elohim in Jehovah is to know him to be the onely true God as Jehovah and to know the Son and Spirit to be Elohims in Jehovah is to know them to be the onely true Jehovah And this is no Barbarism for Gen. 19.23 And Jehovah made fire and brimstone rain on Sodom and