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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Lastly, The holy Ghost is the object of divine worship; are not we baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and holy Ghost? Is the Father, and the Son God, and the holy Ghost not God, who is joined with them in the same honour? Shall a creature come in competition with God? And doth not the Scripture or word of God, direct us to pray for grace from the Spirit as well as from the Father or the Son? (2 Cor: 13.13. Rev: 1.4.) Thus we see how full the Scripture is in giving the glory of the same works upon us, and of the same worship from us to the Spirit, as to the Father and the Son: And therefore from all these premises we may conclude, That the Holy-Ghost with the Father and the Son, is God blessed and to be glorified for evermore. The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Lastly, The holy Ghost is the object of divine worship; are not we baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and holy Ghost? Is the Father, and the Son God, and the holy Ghost not God, who is joyned with them in the same honour? Shall a creature come in competition with God? And doth not the Scripture or word of God, direct us to pray for grace from the Spirit as well as from the Father or the Son? (2 Cor: 13.13. Rev: 1.4.) Thus we see how full the Scripture is in giving the glory of the same workes upon us, and of the same worship from us to the Spirit, as to the Father and the Son: And therefore from all these premises we may conclude, That the Holy-Ghost with the Father and the Son, is God blessed and to be glorified for evermore. The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
1The words carry an allusion (as Interpreters generally agree) to that of Moses describing the creation of man (Gen: 2.7.) And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living ⟨p. 169⟩soul. Elihu speaks near in the same form, fully to the same effect; The breath of the Almighty hath given me life, or, enlivened me; As if he had said, That soul which the Lord hath breathed into me, hath made me live. The soul of man may be called the breath of the Almighty, because the Almighty is expressed infusing it into man at first by breathing. And therefore the word Neshamah, which properly signifies the breath, doth also by a Metonymy of the effect signify the soul it self which causeth breathing. Thus our translators render it (Isa: 57.16.) I (saith the Lord) will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth, for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. As the soul of man was breathed in by God, so the soul is that by which man breathes. Breath and soul come and go together. Some comparing the original word (Shamaijm) for the heavens, with this word (Neshamah) which here we translate breath, take notice of their near affinity, intimating that the soul of man is of a heavenly pedigree, or comes from heaven; yea the latin word (mens) signifying the mind, is of the same consonant letters with the Hebrew Neshamah, and, as some conceive, is derived from it.