Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	john_n	17,081	5	6.2026	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19485	The brazen serpent: or, the copie of a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Decemb. 31. 1620. By Iohn Andrevves, priest and preacher of the VVord of God at Saint Iames Clerkenwell in Middlesex	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1621 (1621)	STC 591; ESTC S122344	23,076	64

id quod eis contrarium intelligitur who when they angle for Fish do not cast the hooke into the water bare naked and vncouered For then they know the Fish will not bite Therefore they hide the hooke within a worme or some other baite and so the Fish biting at the worme is caught with the Hooke So Christ speaking of himselfe Psal 22. 6. saith Ego vermis non homo I am a worme and no man He comming to performe the great Worke of our Redemption did couer and hide his Godhead within the Worme of his humane nature The great Water-Serpent Leuiathan Iob. 40. 20. the Diuell thinking to swallow the worme of his Humanitie Captus est Hamo Diuinitatis was caught vpon the hooke of his Diuinitie This hook stuck in his iawes and bruised the Serpents head by thinking to destroy Christ he destroyed his owne kingdome and lost his owne power In the second place by this Serpent was figured the maner of Christ his Incarnation and Conception For this Serpent which Moses lift vp in the Wildernesse was not made of Wood or Stone or Iron which may be laboured and wrought into a forme with the Hammer Fyle or Chesil but it was made of Brasse which commonly must be molten in the fire before it can be cast into any Forme and the Fire purgeth and cleanseth it from all drosse Secondly if you goe about to carue an Image of a man in wood or stone or Iron first you fashion the Head then the Face then the Neck one part after another successiuely But if you would cast the same in Brasse you neede no more but see that the Mould be fitly prepared and then doe but powre the molten Brasse into the Mould and in a moment you haue a perfect Image So the Body of our Sauiour CHRIST was not begotten by the Ordinary way of procreation by mixture of Man and Woman for so many as are so conceiued are conceiued in Originall sinne but He was conceiued by the Holy Ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greeke Father Not by any carnall effusion of Seminal humor but by way of manufacture or handyworke by the Power and operation of the Holy Ghost Non de Substantiâ Spiritus Sancti sed Potentiâ nec generatione sed jussione saith Augustine Serm. 6. de Tempore Hee was conceiued and made not of the substance of the Holy Ghost for so the Holy Ghost being God should haue begotten him not man but God for the Holy Ghost is God and generans generat sibi simile Besides if the Holy Ghost should haue begotten Christ our of his own substance hee should haue begotten a meere Spirit and not a man for that which is borne of the Spirit is Spirit Iohn 3. 6. But he was made saith Augustine Non de substantiâ Spiritus Sancti sed de Potentiâ Not of the substance of the Holy Ghost but of his Power by his handy-worke Nec Generatione sed Iussione Benedictione Not by way of Generation but by his energeticall Command and Benediction And the Holy Ghost sanctified and prepared the seed of the Blessed Virgin that it might be made an habitation fit for the Soule and Deitie of the Sonne of God Now the Holy Ghost in Scripture you know is often compared to fire for as Fire purgeth But the drosse from metals so the Holy Ghost doth cleanse purge and sanctifie that Matter in the Body of the Virgin whereof the Body of Christ was to be framed viz. the pure bloud or seed of the Virgin For that seede euen of the that blessed Virgin her selfe before it was sanctified by the Holy Spirit was tainted and infected with sinne But being once purged and sanctified by the Holy Ghost afterwards it neuer had nor euer shall haue any staine or taint but being filled with sanctitie beyond all measure it became a most holy Instrument of his Soule and Godhead Let none mistake my words I doe not say that the blessed Virgin her selfe was by the Holy Ghost purged from all sinne but that That part of her Virgin-Blood whereof the Body of Christ was composed was so sanctified and cleansed that in it there was no spot nor staine of Originall Corruption Secondly In ordinary Generation first the Liuer the Heart and the Braine are fashioned then other of the parts one after another for the Seminall humour first becomes an Embryo then a body inorganicall without forme or limmes one by degrees successiuely after another is framed and perfected For as the Schoole of Phisicians saith it is at least 40. daies before the body of a Child in the wombe be fully formed But the Body of our Sauiour CHRIST in the wombe of the Virgin by the obumbration and operation of the Holy Ghost was instantly in a moment made absolute and perfect in all parts and members As the Brasse molten in the fire is no sooner powred into the Mould but instantly it is a perfect figure and shape of a man or Serpent or Beast as the Mould is made for Besides the reasonable soule of Christ did not stay till the 40. day as in other it doth before it was created and infused into His body But at the same moment in and with the Body it was created and vnited to his Body by the Holy Ghost So that the Body of Christ at the very first instant of Conception was quoad perfectionem partium non graduum perfect and complete in all parts and indued at that instant with a reasonable soule Otherwise Hee had not from his first conception beene perfect God and perfect Man for perfect Man subsisteth of a reasonable soule and humane flesh And l Athanasius Creede then had he not been perfect Christ for Christ is perfect God and perfect Man subsisting of a Reasonable and Humane flesh Wherefore the Schoole saith truly Christus totam humanam naturam vniendo Peronae adsumpsit assumendo vniuit Christ by vniting the whole intire Humane nature to his Person assumed it and by assuming it he vnited it to his Person whole and intire This is no new Doctrine for the Fathers of the Primitiue Church haue constantly taught it I reckon Saint Bernard among none of those Ancients yet he hath it Hom. 2. vpon Missus est But old Saint Hierome he hath the same vpon those words in the Prophet Ier. cap. 3. Foemina circundabit virum a Woman shall compasse a Man Speaking of the Virgin inclosing Christ in her wombe And before Hierome Athanasius in his Booke of the Incarnation of the Word Carnis vnio cum verbi Diuinitate ex vtero originem traxit The vnion of the flesh with the Diuinity of the Word tooke its originall from the wombe And after both these Saint Augustine in his 18. Chapter de fide ad Petrum Firmissimè crede nullatenus dubites non Carnem Christi sine diuinitate conceptam in Virginis vtero priusque susciperetur à Verbo sed ipsum Verbum Deum suae carnis