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heart_n	according_a	spirit_n	will_n	2,452	5	6.1603	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55373	Blasphēmoktonia: = The blasphemer slaine with the sword of the spirit: or a plea for the god head of the Holy Ghost Wherein the deity of the spirit of God is proved in the demonstration of the spirit, and vindicated from the cavils of John Bidle. The second edition with many additions. By Matthew Pool, Master of Arts of Emmannel-Colledge in Cambridge; and pastor of the church of God at Michaels Quern in London.	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2826; ESTC R217686	38,396	97

was the Lord for he saith expresly I am the God of Abraham whereas the good Angels and messengers of God never spake in that manner in the first person I am thy fellow-servant said that Angel Revel 22. So the Prophets used to speak of God in the third person Thus saith the Lord. Object 9. His ninth Argument is this He that prayeth unto Christ is not God But the Spirit prayeth to Christ to come to judgement Revel 22. Therefore it is not God Answ It can never be proved that this Te●t is to be meant of the Spirit of God it may very well be meant of any Angel For 1 Certainly the Angels desire to see the happinesse of the Saints compleated 2 In the very verse before the Text there is mention made of a created Angel Object But then it would not have been Spirit in the singular number Answ There is no necessity of that for why may not one good Spirit signifie more good Angels as well as one unclean spirit signifie a legion Mark 5. 2 9. But what if it were meant of the Spirit of God The meaning onely is this the Spirit speaketh in the Spouse and dictates to the Spouse It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Figure very frequent both in Scripture and in other Authors though the Adversary doth magisterially forbid us this Interpretation without giving one reall proof against it I shall adde here what B. hath in his twelfth Reason which indeed properly belongs to this place He quotes Rom. 8. 27. The Spirit maketh intercession for us with groanes unutterable The Spirit saith B. poures out petitions apart in our behalf This our adversary calls an invincible argument but I hope by that time we have done with it it will be found like the invincible Navy Nomen praeterea nihil I answer The Spirit is said to intercede because it makes us to intercede For proof of this 1 It is ordinary in Scripture for God to be said to do that which he maketh us to do thus Gen. 22. 12. God is said to know when he maketh others to know So Matth. 10. 20. The Spirit of your Father speaketh in you which is thus expounded Luke 21. 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdome which all your adversaries shall not be able to gain-say So that the Spirit speaking in them and they speaking by the Spirit signifie the same thing Thus a Scrivener is said to write when by directing our hands he makes us to write 2 It is the Spirit within us not without us that makes intercession for us our prayer therefore is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam. 5. 16. haply to note that it is wrought in us by the Spirit 3 This interpretation suites best with the Context all along he is speaking of the Spirits operation in us ver 11. If the Spirit of God dwell in you Verse 15. is parallel to this 27. Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption by which we cry Abba Father These are equivalent expressions the Spirit in us cries Abba Father and we by the Spirit cry Abba Father And the same thing you since expressed both wayes by the former phrase Gal. 4. 6. by the latter Rom. 8. 15. which if well considered will fully answer B●ales Argument But indeed we need to go no further for an antidote against B's poisonous interpretation then the 26 verse and we may adde the 27 verse to it Thence I argue 1 Such an interpretation must be understood as helps our infirmities in praying But our infirmities in praying are helped by the Spirits inabling us to pray and not by I know not what intercession of the Spirit apart 2 Such an intercession of the Spirit must be understood as teacheth us how to pray as we ought but it is not a supposed intercession of the Spirit of God apart from us that doth that how the prayer of an Angel which we neither hear nor know should teach us to pray is not easie to conceive but the Spirit in us enlightening our mindes dictating to us what we should ask that and that alone helps us against our ignorance 3 Whos 's the groanings are his the intercession is That is clear to any one that reads the 26 verse The Spirit maketh intercession for us with groanings c. But the groanings are ours as appears 1 So they are said to be vers 23. 2 They are groanings that cannot be uttered I suppose B. will not say but the Spirit is able to utter all his minde 3 Nor can it easily be imagined that the blessed Spirit which is our comforter and the Spirit of glory should be subject to groaning seeing the very glorified Saints are freed from them then whom the Spirit cannot be thought to be less happy or more miserable 4 If the minde of the Spirit be our minds assisted by the Spirit then the intercession of the Spirit is our intercession helped by the Spirit But the minde of the Spirit is meant of our minds or our desires assisted by the Spirit because Gods searching the heart is given as a ground of Gods knowing the minde of the Spirit Now there were neither coherence nor consequence between the searching of our hearts and the knowing the minde of the Spirit if the minde of the Spirit were to be understood properly 5 The intercession of the Spirit is according to the will of God But the Spirits interceding for us apart as B. supposeth is not according to the will of God Nay that an Angel for such B. saith the Spirit is should intercede for us is contrary to the will of God for this is the will of God There is but one Mediator 1 Tim. 2. 6. that is one Mediator of Intercession as well as one of Redemption as we generally say against the Papists for of intercession he is speaking in that Chapter ver 1. And on the other side it is the will of God that the Spirit should intercede for us in our sense that it should help us in our prayers and intercessions by convincing comforting enlightening guiding and teaching us by helping our infirmities and therefore so it must be here understood To adde one thing I should desire nothing more then that both our doctrines might be tried by this Text I durst willingly venter all upon its arbitration For besides what hath been said let this be considered How it can possibly be that the Holy Ghost should be onely a created Angel and yet here be said to know the particular wants and most secret desires of every particular Saint Considering 1 That it is the property of God to search the heart Jer. 17. 9 10. The heart is deceitfull who can know it I the Lord search the heart Where nothing more evident then that he speaks exclusively So here in this very place these 26 and 27 verses 2 That it is not imaginable that that person that is ignorant of the day of Judgement can know all mens hearts But so all