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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	wind_n	wisdom_n	wise_a	39	3	6.6616	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95924	Theoremata theologica: = Theological treatises. Octo theses theologicæ: eight theses of divinity. 1. Animæ humanæ productio: Production of mans soul. 2. Puræ Dei prædestinatio: Divine predestination. 3. Verum ecclesiæ regimen: The tru [sic] church regiment. 4. Prædictiones de Messia: Predictions of Messias. 5. Duæ Christi genealogiæ: Christs two genealogies. 6. Apocalypsis patefacta: The revelation reveled. 7. Christi regnum in terra: Christs millenar reign. 8. Mundi hujus dissolutio: The worlds dissolution. / Complied or collected by Rob. Vilvain. Price at press in sheets 3 .s.	Vilvain, Robert, 1575?-1663.	1654 (1654)	Wing V397; Thomason E898_1; ESTC R3206	418,235	540

Spirit of Wisdom and mad Men are said to be possessed with a Spirit Thes are al the acceptions and whe● none can answer or satisfy that words Sens in Scripture it fals not under Human understanding and Faith consists not in our Opinion but submission specialy wher God is said to be a Spirit or wher by Spirit is meant God For his Nature is incomprehensible and we know not what he is but that he is The Spirit of God moved on the Waters If God heself be meant hereby then is motion and place proper to Bodies only Spirit of God Gen 1. v. 2. Gen. 3. 1. ascribed to him but the like words are used at the universal Deluge I wil bring my Spirit Wind Air or moving Spirit and the Waters shal be diminished Both which may be caled Gods Spirit being his special work Pharach cals Josephs Wisdom Gen. 41. 38. the Spirit of God And God saith Speak to al that are wise hearted whom I hav filled with the Spirit of Wisdom to make Exod 28. 3. Aaron garments to consecrat him 2. Isaiah speaks thus of the Messiah The Spirit of the Lord shal abide on him the Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding the Spirit of Counsil and Fortitud the Spirit of the fear of the Lord. Isai 1. 2. 3. Wher is manifestly meant so many Gifts or Graces of God not Ghosts or Goblins 3. Extraordinary Zele and courage in defens of Gods People is stiled the Spirit of God Judg. 3. 10. ch 6. 34. ch 11. 29. ch 13. 25. ch 14. 6. So 't is said The Spirit of God cam on Saul 1 Sam. 11. 6. 1 Sam. 19. v. 20. against the Amonits and his Anger was kindled greatly no Ghost but a vehement heat of vengeance So Gods Spirit cam upon him being among the Prophets that praised God in songs which was no Ghost but a sudden unexpected zele to join with them in holy Hymns or musical harmony 4. A fals Prophet said to Michaiah which way went the Lords Spirit from me to thee This cannot be any Ghost for Micai 1 Kings 22 24. declared the event of that Battel before as from a Vision not from a Spirit speaking in him So though Prophets spake by Gods Spirit or special gift of Prediction yet their knowledg was not by any Ghost within them but by som supernatural Dream or Vision Was not that inspiration by God 5. 'T is said God made man of dust and breathed into his Nostrils Quaere Spiraculum vitae the breath of life and he was made a living Soul This breath only signifies life not any Individual inspired Soul As Job saith So long as Gods 〈◊〉 is in my Nostrils that is so long as I liv or breath So Eze●●●l The Spirit of Life was in the wheels not any Soul but they had life Again The spirit entred Ipse dixit Job 27. 3. Ezek. 1. 20. into me not any Ghost or Spiritual substance possessed his Body and set me on my feet meaning I recovered vital strength to go 6. God saith I wil take of the Spirit upon thee and put it on them the seventy Elders and they shal bear the burden of the People with thee Whereupon two of them Eldad and Med●d Prophecied whom Josua not knowing they had authority praied Moses fo forbid but he refused wishing God N●mb 11. 17 25. would put his Spirit on al the People to make them Prophets or giv them authority subordinat to his own So Josuae was ful of the Spirit of Wisdom becaus Moses laid his hands on him viz. ordained him to prosecut the work of bringing Gods People into the promised Land which he-self began but could not D●ut 34 9. finish So Saint Paul saith If any man hath not Christs Spirit not his Ghost but submission to his Gospel he is none of his So saith St. John hereby ye shal know the Spirit of God every Spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is com in the flesh is of God Rom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meaning the Spirit of Christianity or main Article of Faith that Jesus is the Christ but not of any Ghost or Goblin Thos words Luke 4. 1. Jesus ful of the holy Ghost are expresd or expounded Mat. 4. 1. Marc. 1. 12. by Spirit which means zele to doo the work for which God the Father sent him into the World but to interpret it of the third Person in holy Trinity is to say God was filled with God which is most improper o● insignificant Spirit literaly implies a thin real substance and metaphoricaly som extraordinary ability of Body and affection of Mind but to translat it Ghost which imports imaginary Inhabitants o● Mens Brains ther is no reason or Censure cau● By his leav Saint Lukes words ful of the holy Ghost which the other Evangelist hav not refer to Christs Person for it folows he returned to Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the Wildernes al which three relat alike to Christ but our Interpreters generally expound this of the third Person in Trinity nor is it incongruous to say God-Man was ●d by God but 't is more presumptuous if one Writer w●l seem wiser then al his Felows 7. The Disciples seing 〈◊〉 walk on the Sea supposed him a Spirit or Aerial Body 〈◊〉 Phantasm for al saw him which Mat. 14 26 Marc 6 49. could not be a delusion of the Brain incident to one at once or a very few surprised with like fear but a Body only compact ●●cts 12. 15. of Air. When Saint Peter was excarcerated by an Angel and the Maid said he kno●kd at dore the rest thought hi● mad and said it was his Angel which is a corporeal substance compact upon occasions els the Disciples folowed the Jews and Gentils Opinion that ther be real Apparitions or Spectres which the one stiles Spirits or Angels Good and Evil the other Demons both evil and good For God can form subtle substantial Bodies to use as Ministers or Messengers so Angel signifies in extraordinary metaphysical maner Cannot the Devil doo the like Did he not assum the similitud ●●are of Samuel when the Witch of Endor caused him to confer with Saul for Samuels Soul it could not be though Saul surmised it to be h●s Ghost Such Angels so formed are Corporal substances which take up room as Air doth and mov from place to place in time but are no Spiritual Ghosts in no place or no wher or definitly here as not to be elswher seeming somwhat yet be Nothing For thos thin Substances though invisible as Air hav the same real dimensions greater or lesser as material grosser Bodies Thus the Spirit of God is taken 1. For Wind or Breath See the seven Marginal ●gures 2. For extraordinary gifts 3. For vehement Affections 4. For the gift of Prediction 5. For Life 6. For subordination to Authority 7. For Aerial Bodies Now for Angel 't is generaly a Messenger or spicialy Gods