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spirit_n	father_n	jesus_n	lord_n	17,123	5	3.7490	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33664	The necessity of divine instructions in point of reformation discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor, the Right Worshipful, the sheriffs and aldermen, with other worthy citizens of the city of London, at a solemn anniversary meeting, April 4, 1648 / by John Cardell.	Cardell, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing C495; ESTC R6860	33,627	66

frequently called A light in Scripture yet is it not the Fountain of light Christ is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and the Word is but a means or instrument in his hand to convey light unto us It is not the word it self in the ordinary dispensations of it but Christ by the word that illuminates dark understandings and opens blinde eyes and turns people from darkness unto light and from the power of Satan unto GOD. Men may injoy the outward sound of the Gospel and yet never feel the inward power of it upon their hearts 〈…〉 Lord says the Prophet who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed that is though there be a report made a sound of words in the ears of many yet unless the arm of the LORD be revealed in the Ministery of his Word there will be no believing nor no repenting nor no converting or turning in to God thereby But Secondly The special Instrument that God makes use of By his Spirit for the teaching and instructing of his people is his Spirit without which the very Word it self is but as a sealed Book Isa 29.11 or a dead letter unto them 2 Cor. 3.6 and by the means whereof he is pleased to reveal and manifest not onely mean and ordinary things but the secrets of the Gospel the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the deep things of God are hereby manifested and made known to the Saints 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love him But says he God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit * Scrutatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est nihil in Deo tam profunde ac penitus abditum quo non penctret spiritus nemp● quoniam perillum docemur etiam abditissima Bez. in loc Quia de Deo est hic spiritus omnia novit Dei Hic spiritus Dei docuit nos quos scit naturaliter non doctos docuit nos de mysterio Christi qui non solum spiritus Dei est sed Christi Am●ros Com in loc searcheth all things yea the deep things of God And in the same Chapter and following verse he tells us yet farther That as no man knows the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knows no man but the spirit of God Though ye should have Ten thousand instructers besides as the Apostle speaks in another case yet all would do you little or no good without this instructer And therefore though the Ephesians had as excellent Preaching as any that the world afforded Quia animalis homo non percipit ca quae sunt Spiritue stultisia enim sunt ci Spiritualis verò disudicat omnia opu● est ergo Spiritus san●ti illuminatione ad inveniendum dijudicandum verum scripturae sensum Ita Paulus optat ●cclesiis Spiritum illuminationis Pater coelestis dabit Spiritum pe●entibus Chemnit Examen Decret Concil Trident. de Interpret sacr Script Ezangelium per humanam sapientiam capi non potest sed requirit operationem Spiritue sancti per quam cordibus nostris insinuetur Muscul loc com Ambiguitas igitur vel obscuritas scripturarum quam causantur pontificii non in●ringit carundem authoritatem sed ostendit necessitatem Spiritus illuminantis ministerii ●●centis atque exponentis scripturas Davenant de Iud. ac norm fid cap. 13. Palàm est verbum Dei Spiritus virtute armatum corda Piorum trahere ad consentiendum sibi decretis suis Id. ibid. Spiritus sapientiae revelationis ab officio dicitur quod vera Agnitione Dei ecclesiam ornat Centuriat Magdeburg lib. 2. centur 1. cap. 4. Paulus quaedam citavit ex Arato Epimenide sed affirmo Apostolos non propterea ejusmodi testimoniis usos fuisse ut inde caput aliquod fidei confirmarent nam ad eam rem semper Adhibucrunt expressos locos petitos ex scriptis Propheticis cosque Afflatu Spiritus sancti expossuerunt Sadeel de verb. Dei script advers Hum. trad Nos nihil hic somniamus extra ordinem sed id ipsum Agnoscimus quod in reliquis Articulis fidei omnibus nimirum omninò opus esse internâ Spiritus sancti persuasione ut libris sarris plená fide assentiamur Chamier Panstrat Cathol tom 1. lib. 6. cap. 1. D. White in his way to the true Church sect 8. num 1 11. Reinold Confer with Hart. Chap. 2. Divis 2. Jewel Repl. to Harding 15. Art 11. Divis in Pauls own Ministery yet you may see how earnestly he prays for them Ephes 1. That the GOD of our Lord Iesus Christ and Father of glory would give unto them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him The eyes of their understandings being enlightened thereby to know what was the hope of their calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints and what the exceeding greatness of his power towards them that belieeve c. And that it may appear to you How necessary the presence and help of the Spirit is to bring in these Divine Instructions how necessary the presence and assistance of the Spirit is to bring in these Divine Instructions be pleased to observe thus much That the most plain Fundamental Truths that are cannot be rightly understood without the help and assistance of GOD's Holy Spirit To give instance but in one main Fundamental Truth and that which is indeed the very basis or foundation of all Christian Religion The Divinity of Iesus Christ The Divinity of Iesus Christ instanced in who is there almost that looks not upon it as a most dangerous yea damnable Heresie 2 Pet. 2.1 for any body to deny the Deity of the Son of God The Godhead of Jesus Christ who is not ready to say Out upon him it s not fit he should live that holds forth such an horrid Blasphemous Opinion as this But now I beseech you take heed Caution That whilest ye condemn this Opinion in others and cry out upon it others that in the mean time ye be not deeply guilty of it your selves And that this may appear to be no needless Caution pray give me leave to tell you That no man living is able to assert the Divinity of Iesus Christ in heart and life No 〈◊〉 able to 〈…〉 the Divinity of Christ in heare and life but by the help of the Spirit 〈…〉 Ambros but by the special ayd and assistance of Gods Holy Spirit Natural light will never reveal thus much unto a man it must be the Spirit of GOD that must teach him this lesson or else he will never be able to hold forth the power of this Truth That