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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	mean_v	6,969	5	6.7481	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17319	Certaine questions and answeres, concerning the knovvledge of God vvhereunto are adioyned some questions and answeres, concerning the right vse of the law of God : taught publikely by vvay of catechising / by William Burton ...	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1591 (1591)	STC 4167; ESTC S260	79,192	160

of the 2. person Q. What names are giuen to the second person A. He hath some names as he is the son of God He hath some names as he is man And he hath some names as hee is both God and man in one person Q. What names hath he as he is the sonne of God A. First onely begotten Sonne of God because he is onely begotten of the nature and substaunce of the Father Secondly first begotten not as though he begat any after but because he begat none before Thirdlye th'image and brightnesse of the Fathers glorye because the glorie of God which we cannot see in him is by his effects expressed in his sonne Fourthly the worde because euen as a man reuealeth the meaning of his harte by the worde of his mouth so God reuealeth his will by his sonne Q. What names hath he as he is man A. 1. Sonne of man because he was of the nature of man according to the flesh 2. Sonne of Dauid because he sprange of the linage and stocke of Dauid Q. What names are giuen him as he is both God and man in one person A. 1. Iesus that is a Sauiour because he came to saue the people from their sinnes 2. Christ that is annointed For he was annointed of God to be a Prince to rule his Church a Prophet to teach his church and a Priest to offer sacrifice for his Church 3. Mediatour aduocate because he praieth for vs to the Father and pleadeth our cause before his iudgement seate Q. What names are giuē to the holy ghost the 3. person A. The holy ghost who is the spirite of the Father speaking in the old Testament hath these names and properties 1. The good spirit because he is the fountaine of goodnes 2. The spirit of God because he is good and proceedeth from God 3. The finger of God because God worketh by him as a man by his hand 4. The comforter because he strengtheneth the weake harts of his Saints 5. The spirit of Adoption because he assureth our harts that we be adopted the Saints of God 6. The spirit of loue power sobrietie wisdome c. because it worketh all these things in vs. God is incomprehensible Q. Of what nature is God A. First by nature God is incomprehensible Q. What meane you by that A. I meane that God cannot be contained in any compasse of place as is a man or Angell or any other creature but he is in all places and filleth all places at once is beyond all compasse of place that we can imagine as appeareth by the testimonie of the Scriptures Q. Though the substance of God be incomprehensible yet his power and wisedome are not so are they A. Yes and whatsoeuer is in God is incomprehensible as may be prooued by the Scriptures Q. To what purpose and vse serueth this doctrine A. It serueth to driue all grosse and idolatrous conceipts of God out of our mindes 2. It detecteth and bewraieth the impietie blasphemie of the popish Church or any other persons whersoeuer who either by making of pictures as they thought of God or by maintaining of them being made or by suffering of them to stand still especially after it bee knowne haue thereby denyed God to bee incomprehensible For those pictures and resemblances of God which ignorant men haue forged in their owne braine doe tell vs and say that God may be comprehended and contained within a place yea in a small place or in anie place as a man or other creatures which is most high blasphemie against the maiestie of almightie God God is inuisible Q. What els is God by nature A. Inuisible that is he hath not bene seene with any mortall eye neither can any man possibly see God Q. How proue you that A. Two waies First by Scripture 2. By reason That no man hath seene God It is plaine set downe in 1. Iohn 4.12 That no man can see God It is as plainlie proued in Exod. 33.20 1. Tim. 6.16 By reason it is manifest First we can not see our owne soules which are ten thousand times a more grosse substance then God much lesse can we see God which is a most pure and spirituall substance Q. We reade in Gen. 18.1 that God appeared to Abraham And in Deut. 5.24 that he shewed himselfe to the Israelites therefore he is not inuisible how answere you this A. God gaue them in deede some outwarde sights wherby they might be certaine of his presence and therefore it is said that the Lorde appeared vnto them but his substaunce or essence they saw not For to know God perfectly is proper to God onely Q. We reade in Gen. 1.26 that man was made according to the image of God therefore God is visible for man is visible How answere you this A. The image of God consisteth not in the shape and figure of the bodye but in the minde and integritie of nature or as the scripture saith in wisedome righteousnesse and holinesse Q. To what vse serueth this doctrine A. For manie vses but especially to driue away all grosse conceites of God out of our harts and all pictures and similitudes of God out of our sight for seeing that God was neuer seene whereunto shall he be resembled Moses vrged this point hard and oftē to the Israelites saying Ye hard the voice but saw no similitude Take therefore good heede vnto your selues marke how he saith not take heed but take good heed And therefore take good heed For saith hee againe yee sawe no image in the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb c. Now he cometh to the thing that they must therefore take heed of That ye corrupt not your selues and make you a grauen image or representation of anie figure whether it be of male or female c. Q. VVhat else is the nature of God A. By his nature hee is euerie where that is in all places of heauen and earth and the sea and hell and all at one time and this is witnessed by the Scriptures as well as the rest Q. Is God euery where bodily A. No for he hath no bodie Q Is God euerie where in speculation onely A. No. For he worketh in euerie thing which hee beholdeth Q. How then is he euerie where A. Hee is euerie were essentially For his essence is not contained in any place because hee is incomprehensible Q. Is he not halfe in one halfe of the world and halfe in the other halfe of the world A. No. But as the whole soule is wholy in euerie part of the bodie so God is whole and wholy in euerie part of the world 1 Obiection If God be euerie where essentially then he is in the most filthie sinke and puddle Answere To this obiection I answere three wayes First it is no abasing of the glory of his maiestie to say that hee

Paule had giuen vnto him and not by the name only of Iesus as the cripple was healed by faith in the name of Iesus Q. Can you shew me example of any that could not preuaile as Paule did by the bare sound of the name of Iesus A. Yea In Act. 19.13.14.15.16 We read of certaine men which tooke vpon them to driue out Diuels by naming of Iesus but they got nothing by it as the storie sheweth Of ioyning Christ and the Masse together Q If the Father and the Sonne be of equall honor what say you to the ioyning of Christ and the masse together in one woord to keep his birth and incarnation in remembrance A. The Scripture forbiddeth vs not onelye to keep the idols and worship of idolaters but also to keepe any of their names in remembrance or to make mention of their names with our lips and this we are forbidden both in the precept of God and the practise of his seruant Dauid Q. If the Sonne of God must be honoured as his Father is honoured then how must the natiuitie of the Sonne of God be kept and celebrated A. With such solemnitie and reioycing as beseemeth the maiestie dignitie and nature of the sonne of God euen as we keepe the day of our Princes Coronation with such solemnitie as beseemeth the maiestie and state of a Prince Q. What solemnitie must that be A. Diuine heauenlie and spirituall because he is such to whose honour we do it Q. What then must bee our exercises at that time A Hearing the word of God reade and preached to knowe Christ Iesus giuing of thankes to God for our redemption by Christ Iesus reioycing with spirituall songes and Psalmes to the praise of God for Christ Iesus and bewayling our sinnes which caused the sonne of God so to abase himselfe for our sakes and to praie for grace that we may walke worthie so great a benefite Q. What saye you then to vaine pastimes as Lord of misrule stage players carding and dicing and such like which tende to lewde and vnchast behauiour with surfetting and rioting c. In which and such like exercises commonly the time is spent A. They are not beseeming the dignitie and maiestie of the sonne of God nor the profession of Christians but they are rather for suche as knowe not GOD nor his Sonne Christ and are such as walke altogither in the vanities of their mindes but as the Apostle saith wee haue not so learned Christ if we haue learned him in deede and in truth See Ephes. 4. from the 17 verse to the ende of the Chapter Q. Although they be vnlawfull at other times yet at this time they are lawfull for wherefore was this time appointed els but to laugh and be mery in A. Not honest recreation but excesse of riot is at all times vnlawfull but especiallie at this time for this time is appointed to the Church to haue the birth and natiuitie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ kept in a holy ioyfull and thankfull remembrance and not to be spent as though hel were broken loose in al manner of licentiousnes Q. What is it not lawfull to reioyce then and to eate and drinke and to be merie one with another A. Yes if it be done in the feare of God to the mainteining of holy loue to the releeuing of the poore and needie and to the glorie and praise of the sonne of God Iesus Christ in whome by whom and for whose sake wee enioy all the blessings that we haue Q. Wherein els doe the three persons agree A. In time or eternitie Q. What meane you by that A. I meane that one of them hath beene of as long continuance as another and all of them haue beene and shalbe for euer Q. How proue you this A. By the Scriptures Heb. 13.8 Iesus Christ yesterday to daie and the same for euer Iohn 1.1 Gen. 1.26 Let vs c. which was spoken to the iij. persons in the trinitie viz. Father c. Q. How els are they all one A. In operation that is they all worke one and the same thing together as appeareth by these places To this doctrine do the learned also giue testimonie for one saieth Opera trinitatis sunt inseperabilia idest the workes of the trinitie be inseperable which he explaneth by this similitude Quum dicimus solem nutrire illuminare terram non excipimus eius ardorem neque splendorem sine quibus non nutri● nec illuminat that is when wee say that sunne doth nourish lighten the earth we do not except his heate nor his brightnesse euen so of the workes of the trinitie Another saith thus Quia Deus est essentia vnus hypostasi vero trinus sic intelligitur vt opus hoc creationis sit illius trinitatis commune quanquam in eodem opere sit distincta cuiusque personae operatio that is Because God is one in essence but three in substāce we must vnderstand that this work of our creatiō is a common worke of the trinitie although in the same worke there is a distinct diuers operation of each person Q. How els are they all one A. In will that is they will all one and the same thing without any crossing contradiction or varying in themselues as the Sonne himselfe saith I do alwaies those thinges that please him viz the father Q. These places before alleaged do prooue the Father and the Sonne to be all one in deitie dignitie eternitie c. but What say you for the holy Ghost A. The holy ghost is sometime called the spirite of the father as the Lord God and his spirite hath sent me sometime the spirit of the sonne as If any hath not the spirit of Christ c. Now if the spirite of a man in whome there is no perfection be all one with man much more the spirit of the father is all one with the father and the spirite of the sonne is all one with the sonne and so the holy ghost with the father and the sonne is the same in deitie dignitie eternitie operatiō will The names of the 1. person Q. What names are giuen in the Scripture to the first person A. The father spake most commonly in the olde Testament for in these last times he hath spoken by his sonne and he is called by these names 1 Iehouah that is I am that I am without beginning or ending 2 Elohim that is mightie and strong 3 Adonay that is iudge or in whose iudgement we rest 4 Lorde of hostes because he hath both Angels and men and all creatures at commaund to fight for him 5 The God of Iacob or of Israel because hee made a promise to Abraham that hee would be his God and the God of his seede the Israelits were the seede of Abraham 6 The father of our Lord Iesus Christ the reason why is declared before The names