Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
spirit_n fire_n ghost_n holy_a 6,369 5 5.6726 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A86881 Animadversions and considerations upon a sheet, printed for Francis Smith containing a confession of the faith of several catapædobaptists, whose names are thereunto subscribed. As also the absurdities of the doctrine of arminianism, free-will, and general redemption; and that it is a popish doctrine; and their objections briefly answered. By J. H. Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humphreys, John, b. 1637. 1679 (1679) Wing H3666A; ESTC R224279 30,889 102

There are 2 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

became ungodly men because they were afore ordained to destruction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before decreed or afore written for destruction and therefore became ungodly The tenth lies like the father the second Article For Adam's fall brought in Eternal deaths as well as Temporal I said afore and if all are under that Condemation Rom. 5.16 17 18 19. Ex. 16. Rom. 6.21 then Infants for Infants are part of all Beside all that are fallen into Condemation which all are cannot be saved till they are born again of Water and the Spirit or baptized with Fire and the Holy Ghost Mat. 4. Jo. 3.3 5. 1 Jo. 5. Heb. 10. Ez. 36. Water in all which places is not your Baptism but the cleansing of Christ's Blood applied by the Spirit to the Elect in their Conversion and Regeneration of which Baptism is but a meer figure to Abraham and his believing Seed as Circumcision was before the actual payment of the Debts of the Elect by Christ on the Cross at Jerusalem Heb. 13.11 12 13. Heb. 9.26 Heb. 1.3 Heb. 10.54.10 14. see 18 Q. of the Assemblies Catechism and Answer Four things issue to all Adam's posterity by his fall First The guilt of Adam's first sin Secondly The privation of Original Righteousness Thirdly A depravation of the whole nature of Body and Soul by Hereditary descent And fourthly All actual Sins flowing from it Ro. 5.12 19. and 10. Ephes 1.1 2 3. James 1.14 15. Mark 15.29 Ro. 7. See Doctor Willet's 81 Gen. Controversie against Papists the Elect have their Sins transacted on Christ and his imputed Righteousness covering them and the Spirit of Christ in his time converting them to it and the rest great and small are blinded and damned Ro. 11. The whole Law broken by Adam and his Posterity in him comprehends both Faith and perfect and sinless obedience which Covenant being broke he brought both himself and posterity under Condemnation Rom. 5.18 19. temporal and Eternal for such is the Wages of Sin Ro. 6.21 and lying under the breach of the whole Law of God are eternally condemn'd except they be elected called justified and sanctified freely by his Grace Rom. 8.29 30 31. Christ did not come into the World to save men if they would Ephes 2.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. for then none would be saved but he came positively and absolutely to save them that were eternally given to him to save Jo. 17. and Jo. 10.26 to 29. Christ's death and passions were not Temporal and Bodily only Mat. 27.46 and Chap. 26.36 37 38 42. Mark 14.3 4. Luke 22.42 44. Joh. 18.11 but Spiritual and Infernal passions Acts 2.31 Ps 16.10 Lament 1.12 And if Christ's Sufferings were such then Adaw's fall must procure such But this Hellish Doctrine denyeth both By this Doctrine the Covenant of Grace was made since the fall of Adam and not from Eternity as the Scripture inculcates Titus 1.1 2 3. Ps 89. and Zach. 6.13 2 Sam. 23.5 and then the Covenant of Grace is but a new Covenant of Works viz. Faith and Obedience as if Faith was not included in the Covenant of Innocency and fulfilling the conditions of the pardon of Sin in the Gospel upon pain of Eternal Damnation so that by this Doctrine the new Covenant of Grace is a thousand times more bondaged servile and legal than the Covenant of Innocency For the forfeitures of that say they was but bodily and temporal and so was Christ's death that satisfied for it But the forfeitures of this new Covenant of Grace according to their Doctrine is Spiritual and Eternal Damnation and no help or satisfaction neither in the Covenant of Innocency Christ made up the breaches but the breaches of this Covenant of Grace we our selves must make up by our Free-will Faith Repentance and Obedience or else perish eternally And from the Pelagion Arminian Papistical new Covenant of Grace wherein Christ is only or chiefly an example only by his Kingly and Prophetical Offices in Heaven he prays for me my Faith Victory and Repentance but if I do it not or cannot his Prayer is in vain And as for his Priestly Office as Dr. Hammand saith it dyed with him For it was only to remove the Covenant of Works which was by a temporal death easily removed its forfeitures being but a temporal death from such a New Covenant Lord deliver me and his Elect and from the Promulgators of it Another Juggle they have is that Election is not in the Covenant of Works or from Eternity but in Christ since that is they that do believe the Doctrine they preach believe repent obey and be baptized are Elected and this God foresaw and knew and willed And to uphold this Babel and Whores Doctrine of Babylon they turn upside-down the very Heart and Entrails of the whole Scriptures to the last of the tenth Article I say the Jews were under a Covenant of Grace and by the sign thereof Gen. 17. brought by Divine Command their Children into the visible Church We are under the same Covenant of Grace and the matter and manner of the sign was changed under the New Testament or Administration of Grace but not the Subjects for then it had been necessary that Christ should have forbidden Infants Baptism or John Baptist his Messenger for Christ knew it was once commanded as the New Covenant sign but he never repealed the Subject nor his Messenger that came before him or the Ministers that followed after him Ergo what is not repealed by Divine Institution abides stedfast as a Nail fastened by the Masters of the Assembly given by one Shepherd Christ Jesus Therefore till the Catabaptists prove by Scripture that Christ or his Predecessor John Bapt. or his Successors the Apostles forbid the Subjects in Gen. 17. licensed till then you do all of you shamefully beg the Question and you shall be with your Antichristian Spirit famished for me before you shall have a Morsel from me to feed your Heresie wherefore leave that unlawful Trade of Begging and work for your livings that is prove out of the New Testament by Gods Word that Infants are commanded not to be Baptized or that Circumcision was not a Sign and Seal of the Righteousness of Faith Or that Baptism did not come in the room of Circumcision do one of these or be silent before the Lord for ever For because you have rent the Seal of his Covenant God will rend you and your Sect into a thousand pieces This will be the end of you to perish in your own Dung Phil. 3. Except the Elect among you and true Converts they only shall be preserved and in due time come out of your Babylon as well as Rome's or England's Babylon The Eleventh Article builds up your Idol Baptism and sets it on your sandy Foundation for there is not one word of Teach before Baptise but contrary after Baptism to Teach Mat. 28. latter end For the first word rendered to Teach is in the Greek Matheteusate that
Chap. 17. entitled Of the Voyage by Night and Chap. 18. called the Chapter of the Cave 27 28 29 30 lines To the second that all the misery and death and condemnation of the World brought in by the fall of the first Adam is but temporal corporeal and only as to this life is a Lye against Scripture Reason and the Authority of good and approved Authors This Opinion was held by Jacobus Faber and many other Papists but not by Bellarmine Gen. 2. In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death is a Hebrew phrase signifying eternal and temporal death moriendo morieris Eph. 2.23 Rom. 8.6 7 8. Rom. 5.6.8 Rom. 6.23 Rom. 7.14.17.20.23 Rom. 5 14. to 21. Ezek. 16.3 to 9 10. Mat. 25.41 Gal. 3.1 the wages of all sin is death in that kind that the gift of God is life But the gift of God is life eternal to all Abraham's Seed ergo the wages of all sin is eternal death by the Rule of compar contrar My Authorities are Calvin Instit lib. 2. cap. 1 2 3. the Assemblies Catechism Quest 19. and Answer to it Dr. Willet against Papists in his eighteenth general Controversie read at large besides Luther Zuinglius Melancthon and more Ancient Augustine Hierom Chrysostom Ambrose Tertul. Justin Martyr The third Article professes General Redemption that the Father gave Christ out of his love to the whole world and a Ransom for all universally wherein 1. The Fathers gift is diminished and 2. The Sons Ransom belied for the Father gave him to be a Propitiation for the sins of the world of the Elect and none else that is to all the Elect of Jew and Gentile so is all taken 2 Cor. 5. definitely and John 17.6 7. and 10. he gave him to the Sheep only whose sins he laid on him Isai 53.6.11.1 Pet. 2.24 25. 2. Cor. 5.21 and to whom only he gave and imputed his Righteousness 2 Tim. 1.9 10. Gal. 1.15 16. The Elect Jews were his Sheep and other Sheep I have that is the Elect of the Gentiles and the Reprobates he called Dogs Wolves Lyons c. which he ransomed not neither was given to ransom so he did more for his Elect than you acknowledge viz. transacted and bore their sins on his own body 2. He did it not for all but only for them whom the Father gave to him and him to them Joh. 17.2.6.8.9.11.29 Joh. 6.44.39.37 Joh. 10.3.11.15 16 26 27 28 29. These only by his Blood hath he cleansed in his sight not by Water-Baptism but by his Blood 1 Joh. 1.7.9 and Chap. 5. and of this is the Water of Baptism a Figure and by his Blood hath satisfied Justice for all their sins past to come and present and redeemed them and of this is the Supper a Symbol or Sign 1 Cor. 11. c. The fourth Article sings the same Song wresting the word All to a false sense that God is willing that all should come to repentance and none should perish and that the pardon of sins should be preached to every Creature that none might suffer in Hell The Word of God is belied making it speak what it intends not and the Gospel sophisticated For first the Gospel is ministerlally offered to all Mark 16.15 but by recommunication of the Spirit only to the Elect Rom. 9.11 12 13 18 19 20. with 1 Pet. 3.17 Mat. 13.11 To the Elect it is given to know the Gospel but not to the Reprobate Joh. 12.40 Rom. 11.7 8 9 10. And Piscator a Protestant Divine saith Gratia affertur à deo animo communicandi eam folis Electis hand quaque singulis To the fifth I say degrees of Christianity abstractively adapt not to the Ministry beside I deny you to be a Church of Christ Ergo have no power to give your approbation in Ordination Beside the Church alone though true cannot by Divine Authority ordain Ministers or Commissionate them to go forth to Preach The sixth Article is ambiguous as most of your Preachments are to deceive the simple and obtain Proselites Rom. 16.17 18 19. Submelli Hybleo venenum latet Faith don't justifie as an Act nor is it the Root of Justification as Papists say it is Christ and his Personal Righteousness that justifies the ungodly being Elected Rom. 4 Rom. 8.33 Psal 32.1 2 3. and they by Faith when God gives it them Ephes 2. apprehend and receive this Righteousness of Christ wrote in his Person for their justification Rom. 8.2.3 Joh. 1.12 where you say Believers commit themselves to his Grace I boldly assirm you Arminians Grotians and Pelagians don't mean by Grace to the imputation of his Righteousness wrought in his Individual Person for all his Sheep and given to them for their justification and received by Faith of them Thus all true Protestants but you with Bellarmine and all the Papists mean that the Act of Faith in this your Opinion and new-fangled Gospel and Christ with repentance and obedience to your holy Baptism this is your justification and the Papists for which you will be ashamed in the day of the Lord Jesus when the Thrones of the Kingdoms of the World shall bow before him Phil. 2. and all that own and receive not his imputed Righteousness shall be slain and cast in the Lake Rev. 21.8 and 22.15 The seventh Article tells a loud Lye like his Fellows for God gives his Spirit to his Elect Sons before you do believe or can believe repent or obey for all these are done by the Spirit or some Power else but no Power else but the Spirit can work these Ergo the Spirit is given first not before their Redemption Reconciliation and Justification but before the Application of this Grace by the Office of the holy Spirit this Grace is revealed received and applied to the Elect only Gal. 4.6 Col. 2.10 11 12. Joh. 14.15 16. Chap. 1 Cor. 2.10 11 12. Rom. 8.15 16. Ephes 1.13.18 19 20. The eighth Article is swoln big with the poyson of Sophistication and Contradiction and that because you hide your Errours under a disguise like a hitter Pill wrapt up in a little Sugar or Wormwoodseeds in Plumbs to deceive the simple and Children for you would make us believe you own the Decrees of God while indeed you deny them 2. Acontradiction because if they be Elected for foreseen Faith works or repentance then it is not of meer mercy and good will and nothing in the Creature but sin So that the second part of your Article contradicts the first and the first is sophisticated You say God Elects from the Foundation of the world such as believe that is when they believe he Elects them that is he hath decreed to Elect all that believe but he Elects them as meer sinners and because he Elects them they believe and not that he Elects them because they believe The ninth is like his Fellows full of falshood for they were ordained to Condemnation before they were ungodly men and because of their Reprobation