A30242:1187
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole…
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgess ...The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for T.U., 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now some choice Arguments to prove this, may be reduced into these heads:
First,1 The Name of God is directly and properly (not metaphorically) attributed to him. Thus God is said to speak by the holy Prophets, which have been ever since the world begun. And if you ask, What Person it is in the God-head? 2 Pet. 1.21. The Prophets spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost. So that the holy Ghost was that God, who enlightened and moved all the Prophets that were from the beginning of the world. Thus Acts 5.4. Why hath Satan filled thy heart? thou hast not lied to man, but to God. Ananias he thought he had only to do with men; but mark the opposition, not man, but God; especially 1 Cor. 12.3, 4. There are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit, the same Lord, the same God; Spirit, Lord and God. So that by what Texts we can prove God the Father to be God, the same we can prove the holy Ghost to be God.
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Secondly, The holy Ghost hath those works attributed to him, which do only belong unto a God. Such as God only can do, as Creation, Sanctification and Redemption, and miraculous operations. These things do demonstrate and prove a God; Creation, Psal. 33 6. By the word of the Lord the Heavens were made, and by the Spirit (or breath) of his mouth thy were created.