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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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5. We read that not only habitual grace was given him in respect of his humane nature, but also the spirit of God was bestowed on him, and though this be thought by the Socinians a pregnant Argument because he that is God cannot have the Spirit of God given him; Now to this we readily grant, that not only the graces and gifts of Gods Spirit, but the Spirit it self also was bestowed on him, So the Prophet Isa. 11.2. The spirit of the Lord is said to rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and counsel; Thus Act. 1.2. he is said through the holy Ghost to give Commandments unto the Apostles whom he had chosen, but yet this doth not take off from his God head, for first, the assistance and operation of the holy Ghost was only in respect of his humane nature, for as by the holy Ghost his humane body was prepared and fitted, So also his rational soul by the same holy spirit was sanctified and made the holy One; It was not therefore in respect of his divine nature but his humane, that he had the holy Ghost working in him, and if you say▪ What necessity was there of the holy Ghost, Seeing his divine nature was able to assist and sanctify his humane nature; It's answered, that the holy spirit being the third person cannot be separate from the Father and the Son, though therefore Christ as the second person was able to do all things, yet because where the Father and Son is, there also is the holy Ghost, therefore that works also as the other, not that the other persons need it, but because of the inseparability; Even as the Father did at first create all things by the Son, not that he was insufficient or impotent without him, but because of their intimate Union.
5. We reade that not only habitual grace was given him in respect of his humane nature, but also the spirit of God was bestowed on him, and though this be thought by the Socinians a pregnant Argument because he that is God cannot have the Spirit of God given him; Now to this we readily grant, that not only the graces and gifts of Gods Spirit, but the Spirit it self also was bestowed on him, So the Prophet Isa. 11.2. The spirit of the Lord is said to rest on him, the spirit of wisedom and counsell; Thus