Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	john_n	son_n	16,648	5	6.2041	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77486	Brightman redivivus: or The post-humian of-spring of Mr. Thomas Brightman, in IIII. sermons. Viz. [brace] 1. Of the two covenants. 2. The danger of scandals. 3. Gods commission to Christ to preach the Gospell. 4. The saints securitie.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.; Halsted, John.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4691; Thomason E375_16; ESTC R201349	89,168	128

was the materiall Oyle of the inward Spirituall Annoynting Psal 105.15 and 1 Kings 19.16 Elisha is said to be Annoynted and yet had nothing but Elias Cloake cast on him Object But you will say if the presence of the Spirit be the Annoynting then Christ was Annoynted in his very Conception Answ To this answer is made that there is a two-fold Annoynting The one was Sanctity of nature and this was from the Conception But the other was for a publik● Office and that was only in Baptisme by the visible shape of the Holy Ghost and with the voyce of the Father having seene the meaning let us see the instruction Doct. 1. Doctrine Christ did not of his own swing and Counsell leap into the Office of Reconciliation but by the Authority and Ordination of God and the Holy Spirit So that whatsoever was done by Christ in that Office was done by the will and common consent of the Trinity Heb. 5. chap. 4 and 5. verses So that whosoever embraces Christ he doth by the same meanes and at the same time come into favour with the whole Trinity who committed this Office to Christ as on the contrary they that despise Christ the Annoynted of God in vain do they boast of God when as together with Christ they reject the Father and the Spirit And hence appeares the miserable Condition of the Jewes Turkes and all Infidels who refuse to hearken to the Annoynted of God Doct. 2. Doctrine No Creature Man or Angell can perform this high Office but Christ alone to whom is given fulnesse of the Spirit yea not only are any able but it it not lawfull for any to attempt the same but Christ alone because there was none ever ordained or Consecrated to this Office besides him Iohn 6.27 Him hath the Father sealed to wit as with his Letters Patents testifying that Christ his Son is the only Mediator by whom he will be Reconciled 2 Cor. 5.21 God was in Christ reco●ciling the World And 1 Cor. 1.30 Christ is made to us of God Acts 4. There is no other Name or Person by whom we may yea or by whom it is lawfull to seeke Salvation Acts 5. at the end Acts 10. Him hath God annoynted So that alwayes the Apostles from this inferre that this Christ is the Saviour So that all are accused of falsification and forgery before God who presume to Translate the praise of this to any other then Christ for they goe about to Corrupt the Authentike Seale of God Vse So that this serves both to demonstrate and refute the Audacious boldnesse of the Papists in obtruding any into any part of the Office of Christ for be it granted that any either Man or Angell were found without sin and had the fulnesse of the Spirit yet might not such presume nor any for him to put him into this Office because not only sufficiency is required but also Ordination from God Now this can no where be shewed that God appointed any other If Christ should need any assistant it is either because he cannot or will not beare the whole burden himselfe The one whereof is most blasphemous against the power of God And the other is most derogatory to the infinite love and bountifulnesse of Christ Though in a Land there may be many fit for an Office yet if by Charter the Kings Majesty grant it to one alone who dare presume not only not to set up another but not so much as go to any other about that businesse or Office but he shall incurre the Kings displeasure And shall we not thinke Simile that if any seeke for Salvation at the hand of any other then at this Ioseph that God shall not be offended Shall one Sun in the Firmament suffice to inlighten the whole World and shall not the Sun of righteousnesse Christ Iesus Better had these men controuled any of the workes of Gods Creation yet a woe belongs to such then of Redemption and as their madnesse would appeare who to help the Sun would light Candels at noone day So no lesse madly deale they who would adjoyn any assistants unto Christ Second the meditation of this That God annoynted Christ is the foundation of Christian comfort both in that we may be assured that no exception can be taken against Christ who was sent by God himselfe as also because God out of his infinite and free Love to Man-kind gave Christ to be a Saviour And this the Scripture oft beats on as Rom. 3.21 25 26. Rom. 5.8 2 Cor. 5. at the end And Christ himselfe Iohn 3.17 So God loved the World For wee being the parties that had offended a Mediator should have beene procured by us and from us But we were unable to supply any because we were children of wrath Behold and wonder It was Man that had offended it was God that was injured and therefore in all reason it was that if man could not by himself yet he should have sought out one who might have stood twixt God and him to make an atonement But loe the contrary God offended and Man offending even God I say the Creator all-sufficient in himselfe and blessed for ever And man a worme a wretch before him yet this great God vouchsafes to send an embassage to us weake men to entreat of conditions of Peace and to offer the bloud of his own Son to be shed who was the Embassadour to confirme the league of Peace twixt himself and us Was there ever any love like this and wonderfull Oh the Ocean of comfort O endlesse love how should this confirme weake Consciences How can we doubt that the Lord will fayle his when he hath done this for them all ready O let us render love for love that wee be not worse then Publicans and sinners who love those that love them Doct. The third Doctrine Out of this with the former circumstance we learne whom and what manner of ones God doth preferre to any Office to wit such as are fit and are replenished with such gifts of the Spirit as the place requires ☞ for so it is here said Christ was Annoynted because he was furnished So was Saul 1 Sam. 10.9 And David 1 Sam. 16.14 So Cyrus Esa 42. and 44. chap. So Joshua Moses and all the Apostles and Ministers Ephes 4.12 13. Vse The use of this is that none presume to insinuate or intrude themselves into those Offices to the executing wherof they are not in some sort fitted of God So that it is plaine that many that boast themselves Ministers are nothing lesse then that they would seeme for when as they art rude and altogether void of Edification God hath not sent them for he hath not committed his flock to dumbe dogs or blind watchmen ☞ but whosoever he doth advance unto that dignity he doth furnish them in some good measure and as they mock both God and men who will enter Marriage estate having neither ability or desires to performe Marriage duties being either

difference the Spirit doth reside in Christ and in others And this difference appeares in two things First in the Universality of the gifts in Christ Second in the Perfection of gifts As touching the first God did not bestow one or two or moe gifts on the Humanity of Christ but he powred them out most plentifully on him John 3.34 35. Col. 2.3.9 It pleased the Father that all fullnesse should dwell in him all gifts are not given to one but to every member as much as seemes good to the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 12.11 For as the head is the common receptacle of all the senses and doth excercise their faculties when as yet every Sense hath it distinct Office In the execution whereof they are imployed Simile So our head Christ is most fully furnished with all necessary gifts to the animating of his body when as yet the members of his body have their severall functions and parts in which all their faculty or ability is circumscribed For the second all the gifts of Christ were most perfit in him perfit Wisdome Knowledge Iustice Holinesse not inchoate but in their perfit maturity There was no defect of any gift or in any but all were ministred unto absolute in all parts and degrees to the full perfection of his Humanity and this not only from some time of his Age but from his first Conception Luke 1.35 To his Resurrection and Ascention 2 Cor. 5.21 Now the gifts given to the Saints are only the first fruits a handfull and as earnest-pence 1 Cor. 13.12 Wee know but in part we Love but in part So that wee may easily see how farre the dwelling of the Spirit in holy men differs from the manner of the same in Christ In the one without measure in the other in measure In Christ full in us in part in him Primarily In us Secondarily So that as great difference as there is twixt the spring and the streame flowing thence Twixt the light of the Moone and starres and the Sun Simile The one being borrowed and imperfit the other being originall and alwayes e●uall So great difference is there twixt Christ and his Saints in regard of gifts And indeed this plenitude of gifts is one of the peculiar Prerogatives which the Humanity of Christ hath received by the Hypostaticall union neither can they be found in any other person who is not God and man Vse The use of this is to teach us to trust perfitly in the Salvation brought by Iesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.17 For wee see here what a Mediator and Reconciler we had who is all sufficient which when alone it is peculiar to Christ Psal 45.8 It must needs be that the Office of Reconciliation belongs to him alone Neither is Christ unfit for any part of it or defective who hath all gifts and in all degrees Neither is any other fit for any part of that Office seeing there is perfection in none So that neither Peter nor Paul nor any Saint dead or alive may presume to offer themselves to partake in this Function much lesse may any intrude themselves We may not faine to our selves other Mediators it is a burden too heavy for any to undergo If Paul could say 2 Cor. 2. at the end Who is fit for these things to wit to be a Servant and an instrument in administring any part of these things then who may be found meet to be the Lord and disposer of these Christ admits no companions in any part of his Office either Regall in binding Conscience and giving Laws in opening or shutting or in his Priestly Office of Praying or Sacraficing or Suffering neither in his Propheticall Office of inward effectuall teaching Here then is overthrown the blasphemous Doctrine of the Church of Rome usurping all these being farre unfit for any of them Vse Second Vse to the faithfull and all that want to draw out of this fullnesse Iohn 1.16 Both all new graces that are wanting as also new strength and increase of the Graces we have received And this must be done by a lively Faith apprehending Christ esteeming him above all desiring him before all and delighting in him more then all till wee may enjoy his glorious presence neither need wee feare any defect a Spring the more drawn the faster it rises Pray wee then that seeing we have a dry ground the Lord would give us of the springing water of the Spirit that wee be not scorched with heat or pinched with drought Vse Third for comfort to the godly No true members of Christ can faile no more then that River can faile whose spring ceases not or that house fall whose foundation stands sure No more then those members of that body can wither or dye whose head failes not to derive Sense motion and Spirit and is also able to remove al inward lets Thus much then of Christs sufficiency Now let us see his right of executing his Office which appeares by his Installing and Ordination In these words He hath Annointed me This is a Metonymicall speech of the adjunct for the subject of the signe for the thing signified For God appointed that the chiefe Magistrates when they entred into their Offices should be annoynted with holy Oyle and now the chiefe Magistrate among the Iewes was either Civill or Ecclesiasticall the Civill was the King who was Annoynted 1 Sam. 10.1 and 16. chap. 14. The Ecclesiasticall was either extraordinary or ordinary this was the high Priest Levit. 8.12 Exod. 29.30 chap. The other was the Prophet 1 King 19.16 Now this Oyle did signifie the gift of the Holy Ghost wherewith they were to be endewed which entred and executed these Offices And because the Annoynting was used at such time as they were consecrated it is but for the Consecration it self and investing into the Office And therefore these words He hath Annointed me import thus much The meaning of the Text. For this cause God my Father hath ordained me to this Function and hath given me power to execute the same Further touching this Annoynting two things is to be considered Object First to which of the three Offices was Christ Annointed Answ To this answer is made to all Three Men indeed because they receive the Spirit by measure divers are Annoynted to divers Offices one not being sufficient to discharge many But Christ being furnished with all fulnesse of Spirit is most sufficient for all the three Offices Quest The second thing touching this Annoynting is when and how was it done for we read not of the doing of it at any time nor in any place Answ For answer to this we must know First He was not Annointed with outward or material Oyle but with the thing signified by the Oyle the Spirit it self And this was done in his Baptisme in Jordan Math. 3. at the end When he was almost thirty yeeres old Now where the Truth is what needs the shadow And we read in Scripture of some said to be Annoynted before there

Drunkennesse So men are so farre from helping themselves hereby as that they doe but aggravate the matter and provoke the Iudge for who would endure a Thiefe reasoning thus I can doe no otherwise it is so sweet to me and I have been so accustomed to this course Second when it is said Woe be to that man by whom the offence comes c. So Christ doth shew that that Woe which belongs to the authors of Scandals is farre heavier then that which before was shewed to hang over the World For greater must be the punishment of advising and purposed wickednesse then of errour and rashnesse Greater of the seducer t●en seduced he that doth mingle a Cup of poyson to another ought by all equity to undergoe a greater punishment then he sustained paine that drank the poyson So that the authors of Scandals shall not answer for themselves alone but for all those that have been Scandalized by them Doct. And this Christ shewed by his sharpe reproofe of Peter Math. 16.23 Who when by a foolish speech proceeding from ignorance and love to Christ yet did Scandalize Christ Christ called him Divell for the same even because he was a Scandall ☞ Note ☞ And in very truth the authors of Scandall are in some sort worse then the Divell for he only by perswasion and suggestion but these doe by Example and action which doth give further encouragement then a simple temptation from which feare might deterre Now let us come to the Vse Vse If this thought did deeply possesse the minds of men how carefull would they be of every word least that by idle lascivious filthy and blasphemous speeches they should give occasion to others by doing the like to decay in Grace How great modesty would be used what gravity in outward carriage and Attire no distemper in Eating and drinking would be seene least by their Example others should be drawn to sin But are these things so No But as if Christ had playd the false Prophet so doth the whole World heap up Scandals to their own and the destruction of their brethren Yea if they may know what will offend and grieve their brother that they will do of purpose But be it that men in this world do little perceive their misery and the evill there will come a time when they shall find that true which Christ hath told Therefore my brethren Let us remember that our s●●s extend further then our selves ☞ neither do we wound our own soule only by sinning but we most cruely slaughter all those who shall by our Example be encouraged to do the like and when every man 's own burden is greater then he is able to beare How intollerable will it be to stand guilty of all those soules which wee have destroyed by our Scandals Object Let not then the Blaspheamer Prophane person Rioter unclean person say that they are but their own foes and that they hurt no body but themselves Answ For I say unto you all you hurt others and shall answer for others O that this one lesson could be learned it would awake men make them live circumspect and those that have sinned to repent betimes that they might be Examples to others of good as they had been of evill and of praying for those whom they had occasioned to fall For most fearfull is the estate of those men ☞ for their damnation increases after themselves be dead while in their lives time they begat many Sons and daughters to Satan who increasing cause the punishment of the Authors thereof to encrease As on the Contrary the reward and measure of glory increases to the godly long after their deaths while their godly labours and holy lives shall be effectuall meanes of others good Consider but how vehement and earnest Christ is in this point of Scandall Math. 5.29 30. Note If thy right hand offend thee pull it out So if thy hand or foot though they be the most necessary and usefull members Pull them out and ou● them off Object What Had it not beene enough to have said Take hood to them and watch them Answ No He contents not so and therefore he is most precise and strict we must in this case stand on no termes and himselfe gives the reason of it Marke 9.42 43 44. When three severall times he urges the fearfull effect of Eternall misery O how should this rouse the Worlds deadnesse For Conclusion Vse Let it bee the carefull Practice of that holy Exhortation of St. PAVL Phil. 4.8 Let all things bee done to Edification 1 Corinth 14. Edifie our selves in our most holy Faith 1 Thes 5.11 Rom. 14.19 Let us therefore follow those things that concerne Peace and wherewith one may edifie another verse 20 21. AMEN FINIS GODS COMMISSION TO CHRIST TO PREACH THE GOSPELL Sermon III LUKE 4.18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me ☞ he hath Annoynted me and sent me to Preach glad tydings THese words are that portion of Scripture taken out of the 61. Chap. of Esa Whereof Christ Preached in the Synagogue of Nazareth where hee was brought up as a recompence for his harbour Note and a testimony of his love to the place of his aboad Out of which example this laudable custome hath prevailed in the Church that in Preaching one or two verses should be read out of the Scripture out of the meaning and interpretation whereof some profitable Doctrine applyed to popular use and edification might be collected And this choyce of such Scripture was here made by Christ as might serve to instruct the people of a most weighty point touching their Salvation John 17.3 Shewing whence Christ came wherefore and what great need we had of his help Three things These words then teach three things First the calling of Christ to the undertaking of the Office of Reconciliation Second the description of the Office it selfe Third the particulars thereof with the subject or object of the same The calling is in the first words and comprehends two things First Christs sufficiency and furniture Second his Ordination and inauguration into his Office Let us see the meaning of the words The Spirit Esa 11.2 The Spirit with all the gifts thereof are upon him is sent and given by God the Father and abides in Christ Yet it is said upon him because the Spirit came down from heaven and did visibly rest on him On me I that is on my Humanity Math. 3.16 So that these words signifie thus much The gifts of the Holy Ghost proceeding from God my Father doth reside and dwell in this my Humanity which yee see by which gifts I am sanctified to this Office of Reconciliation Object But it may be said what Excellency hath Christ by this above others for the Prophet Esay affirmes the like of him and so may other Holy men that they have the Spirit Answ To this answer is That that of Esay is chiefly to be understood of Christ and not of himselfe and with great