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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76698	The apostolical and true opinion concerning the Holy Trinity, revived and asserted partly by twelve arguments levied against the traditional and false opinion about the Godhead of the Holy Spirit. Partly by a confession of faith touching the Three Persons. Both which having been formerly set forth, were much altered and augmented, with explications of Scripture, and with reasons: and finally, with testimonies of the Fathers, and of others. All reprinted, anno 1653. By John Bidle, M.A. And now again with the life of the author prefixed, anno Dom. 1691.	Biddle, John, 1615-1662.; Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop of Lyon.	1691 (1691)	Wing B2868B; ESTC R211856	15,790	16

the Heaven of Heavens with all their Host Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them the Children of Israel John 16.7 8 c. Nevertheless I tell you the Truth It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the * So the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Original perpetually signifieth amongst Greek Authors and is so rendred by the Translators themselves 1 Joh. 2.1 and ought to have been so rendred here especially because he saith in the following words that the Holy Spirit shall convince the World for it is proper to an Advocate to convince Advocate will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you And when he is come he will reprove in the Original convince the World of Sin and of Righteousness and of Judgment I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now Howbeit when he the Spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all Truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he shall shew you things to come He shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I he shall take of mine and shew it unto you Rom. 8.26 27. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our Infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with Groans that cannot be uttered But he that searcheth the Hearts knoweth what is the Mind or Desire of the Spirit for he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the Will of God Acts 19.2 And Paul finding certain Disciples said unto them Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed And they said unto him We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit Ephes 4.4 5 6. There is one Body and one Spirit even as ye have been called in one Hope of your Calling One Lord one Faith one Baptism One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all 1 Cor. 12.3 4 c. Wherefore I give you to understand that no Man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed and that no Man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit but there are diversities of Gifts yet the same Spirit And there are diversities of Administrations yet the same Lord and there are diversities of Operations yet it is the same God that worketh all in all Luk. 3.21 22. It came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying the Heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape like a Dove upon him 1 Cor. 2.11 12 13. But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things even the Depths of God For what Man knoweth the things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth none but the Spirit of God he doth not add as before which is in him Now we have received not the Spirit of the World but the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given us of God Rev. 22.12 17. Behold I come quickly and my Reward is with me to give unto every Man according as his Work shall be and the Spirit and the Bride say Come Act. 5.32 And we are his Witnesses of these things and so is also the Holy Spirit whom God hath given to them that obey him Gal. 3.5 He therefore that ministreth or giveth to you the Spirit and worketh Miracles among you doth he it by the Works of the Law or by the Hearing or rather Preaching of Faith He that ministreth or giveth the Spirit to you a strange kind of Speech if the Holy Ghost were God The Scripture is wont to speak more soberly of Almighty God than to say that he is given by another much less by Men as it is here said of the Holy Spirit 1 Cor. 8.4 We know that an Idol is nothing in the World and that there is no other God but one For though there be that are called Gods whether in Heaven or in Earth as there be many Gods and many Lords yet unto us there is but one God even the Father of whom are all things and we unto him and one Lord even Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him You see here that the Apostle being about to set down who is the only God and only Lord of Christians maketh no mention of the Holy Spirit which could not have been done by so faithful an Apostle had the Holy Spirit been either God or Lord. Of these Places thus recited no Man tho never so subtile and tho he turn and wind his Wit every way shall ever be able to make Sense unless he take the Holy Spirit to be what I say Behold now the Cause for which I have lien under Persecution raised against me by my Adversaries who being unable to justify by Argument their Practice of giving Glory to the Holy Spirit as God in the end of their Prayers since there is neither Precept nor Example for it in all the Scripture and being taxed by me for giving the Glory of God to another and worshipping what he hath not commanded nor ever came into his Heart have in a cruel and unchristian manner resorted to the Arm of Flesh and instigated the Magistrate against me hoping by his Sword not that of the Spirit to uphold their Will-worship but in vain since every Plant that the Heavenly Father hath not set shall be rooted up And that this practice of Worshipping the Holy Spirit as God is such a Plant as God never set in his Word would soon appear to the Honourable House could they be but so far prevailed with as laying aside all Prejudice seriously to weigh the many and solid Proofs that I produce for my Opinion out of the Scripture together with the slight or rather no Proofs of the adverse Party for their Opinion which they themselves know not what to make of but that they endeavour to delude both themselves and others with Personalities Moods Subsistences and such like brain-sick Notions that have neither sap nor sence in them and were first hatched by the subtility of Satan in the Heads of Platonists to pervert the Worship of the True God Neither could this Controversy be set on foot in a fitter juncture of time than this wherein the Parliament and Kingdom have solemnly engaged themselves to reform Religion both in Discipline and Doctrine For amongst all the Corruptions in Doctrine which certainly are many there is none that more deserveth to be amended than this that so palpably thwarteth the whole tenour of the Scripture and trencheth to the very Object of our Worship and therefore ought not to be lightly passed over by any Man that professeth himself a Christian much more a Reformer God is jealous of his Honour and will not give it to another we therefore as beloved Children should imitate our Heavenly Father herein and not upon any pretence whatsoever depart from his express Command and give the Worship of the supreme Lord of Heaven and Earth to him whom the Scripture no-where affirmeth to be God For my own particular after a long impartial inquiry of the Truth in this Controversy and after much and earnest calling upon God to give unto me the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledg of him I find my self obliged both by the Principles of Scripture and of Reason to embrace the Opinion I now hold forth and as much as in me lieth to endeavour that the Honour of Almighty God be not transferred to another not only to the Offence of God himself but also of his Holy Spirit who cannot but be grieved to have that ignorantly ascribed to himself which is proper to God that sends him and which he no-where challengeth to himself in the Scripture What shall befal me in the pursuance of this Work I refer to the disposal of the all-wise God whose Glory is dearer to me not only than my Liberty but than my Life It will be your part Honoured Sir into whose hands God hath put such an Opportunity to examine the Business impartially and to be an helper to the Truth considering that this Controversy is of the greatest importance in the World and that the Divine Truth suffers her self not to be despised Scot-free Neither let the meanness of my outward presence deter you from stirring since it is the part of a wise Man as in all things so especially in Matters of Religion not to regard so much who it is that speaketh as what it is that is spoken remembring how our Saviour in the Gospel saith That God is wont to hide his Secrets from the Wise and Prudent and to reveal them unto Children In which number I willingly reckon my self being conscious of mine own personal Weakness but well assured of the Strength and Evidence of the Scripture to bear me out in this Cause and remain Yours in the Lord J. Bidle April 1. 1647. To the READER CHristian Reader I beseech thee as thou tenderest thy Salvation that thou wouldst throughly examine the following Disputation in the Fear of God considering how much his Glory is concerned therein and at any hand forbear to condemn my Opinion as erroneous till thou art able to bring pertinent and solid Answers to all my Arguments for thou must know that tho I have contested with sundry Learned Men yet hath none hitherto produced a satisfactory Answer to so much as one Argument Farewel J. B. ERRATA XII Arg. Pag. 13. Col. 1. line 2. read is not here Test Page 7. Just Mart. Col. 2. line 16. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Couf P. 9. Col. 1. l. 6. r. ver 27. P. 16. Col. 1. l. 15. for the r. his

Christ whom he had sent but return'd to his long interrupted Exercises among his Friends But he could not long labour in this Field for about five Months after the Protector Oliver dies and his Son Richard succeeding calls a Parliament dangerous certainly to John Bidle in the first place if to any other which being foreseen he was forced as it were for he did it with regret by the Importunity of a Noble Friend to retire into the Country during their Session But that Parliament being dissolv'd he returned to his wonted Station till such time as the Divisions between the Protector and Army had brought into Power again the Long Parliament and the Divisions of that Parliament and Army and People had brought in General Monk out of Scotland he the Secluded Members and they the Exil'd King Charles and with him a restoration of the Antient Government in Church and State Then after some time the liberty of Dissenting Worshippers was taken away and their Meetings punish'd as seditious Now J. Bidle yields to the Time and restrains himself from publick to more private Assemblies But neither could he long enjoy those however peaceable and harmless for on the first of June 1662. He was haled out of his Lodgings where he was conven'd with some few of his Friends for Divine Worship and carried before Sir Rich. Brown who forthwith committed them all to the publick Prison J. Bidle to the Dungeon where he lay for five hours and was denied the benefit of the Law which admits Offenders of that sort to Bail for their Appearance There they lay till the Recorder moved with more reverence of the Laws took security for their answering to their Charge next Sessions which they perform'd accordingly But when the Court could not find any Statute whereon to form any Criminal Indictment against them they were referr'd to the Sessions following and then were proceeded against by pretext of an Offence against Common Law the Rules of which lie mostly in the Judges Breasts and thereupon fined every one of the Hearers in the penalty of Twenty Pounds and J. Bidle in One Hundred to lie in Prison till paid Now though the Sheriff would generously have been satisfied with Ten Pounds for him and he would have paid it yet the Enmity of Sir Rich. Brown was such as he could not be induced to consent thereto upon any terms but threatn'd him with a Seven Years Imprisonment though he should pay the whole Hundred Pounds This was the cause of his continuing in Prison but he had not been there full five Weeks till by reason of the noisomness of the Place and pent Air to him whose only Recreation and Exercise had been for many Years to walk daily into the free Air he contracted a Disease which in a few days alas put a period to his Life In this Extremity Sir R. Brown could not be moved to grant the Sick Prisoner the present Comfort of a Removal in order to a Recovery but Sheriff Meynel to the praise of his great Humanity did grant it But alas the second Day after his removal between five and six a Clock in the Morning the 22th of September 1662. he quietly gave up his Spirit to God He was then in the strength of his Age the 47th Year of his Life Now it did appear as he had said formerly that by frequent Meditations of the Resurrection and future Happiness he had made Death contemptible to himself For as soon as by the Disease more strongly annoying his Brain he perceiv'd a great Alteration he signified it to his Friends and would not be induced to any Discourse but compos'd himself as it were to sleep during that eight hours time which after that he liv'd being very sparing of Words or indeed of Groans that might argue any Impatience notwithstanding when a certain pious Matron who ministred to him broke forth into this as it were Farewel-saying God grant we may see one another in the Kingdom of Heaven He now his Speech failing left up his quivering Hand shewing thereby it seems how pleasing that Wish was to him And that he was not surpriz'd with dying at this time may be collected from his often saying before That if he should be once more cast into Prison he should never be restor'd to Liberty and moreover That the Work was done meaning That that Truth which God had rais'd him up to profess was sufficiently brought to light there wanted only Ingenuity in Men for the embracing and acknowledging it Having in this manner described the Course of John Bidle's Life it may perhaps be enquired why being so learned and able a Man he published so few Books especially being provoked by divers Answers to what he did publish to which he did not reply To this it may be answered first That he was verily perswaded that Truth being in it self plain and simple especially what is necessary and very useful is easy to be apprehended by few words it 's Error that seeks Garnish in many Words and Figures of Speech Again what he did publish he well deliberated of so that he did not find in the adverse Writings any thing of moment which an attentive Reader might not perceive already obviated And they that attend not to the first Propositions will not receive benefit by Replies and Rejoinders We add that he treading in a Path long over-grown with Briars and Thorns of Error and Sophistry it requir'd vastly greater Labour and Diligence to find out the Way of Truth in which no English-Man had by any appearing Foot-steeps gone before him for many Ages But that which in my Judgment does more commend our John Bidle than all his Labours and Sufferings for the propagation of great and important Truths is his great Zeal for promoting Holiness of Life and Manners for this was always his End and Design in what he taught He valued not his Doctrines for Speculation but Practice insomuch that he would not discourse of those Points wherein he differed from others with those that appear'd not religious according to their Knowledg Neither could he bear those that dissembled in Profession for Worldly Interests He was a strict Observer himself and a severe Exactor in others of reverence in speaking of God and Christ and Holy Things so that he would by no means hear their Names or any Sentence of Holy Scripture us'd vainly or lightly much less any foolish Talking or Scurrility He would often tell his Friends that no Religion would benefit a bad Man and call upon them to resolve with themselves as well to profess and practise the Truth that is according to Godliness as to study to find it out and that against all Terrors or Allurements to the contrary being assured that nothing displeasing to Almighty God could be in any wise profitable to them But as for those that were really of a contrary Mind to him how mean soever for he was very humble and condescending they could not oblige him more than