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againe, or
ftirre
any more.
Ic is
•~·~ ~•e;p.b•,
it
fell~
;. A
"Vtbtmmt
It
was
amighty
or
vehement wind.
The
Windisfo;ap.d
the
Spirit
u
fo ·b th'
~<nd.
·
this well forced together.
.
·
0
m
. Ofthe
Wind,
it is a common obfcrvacion, that being nothing elfe but apuff f
1
atre, the thinnefr,chepoorcll,and (to bur feeming) ofthe leall force of
all
creacue
0
fi'C:ll.48.7.
yet groweth it to that
vi~le1m,
andgathererh fuch llrength,as iri
ratrlestogechC:~'
gt .Reg.•~-~~~
great jbiprof Tharfis,
as
g
#rents andrives infrmder mormtaines and rockes:
pu\lsu
e
. , ··
trees; blowes downe huge p.!es ofbutldmg: liath moft
llrang~
;u_1d wonderful\ ef.
fe&, which our eyes have often feene: and all this but a
l~ttle
thinne airc.
·
AndJurely, n?le!fe obfervable, or admirable ( nay;.mnchm?re) have beene
and arc the operatwns
o~che
Spmt.
Even pre[emly after this, th1s Spirit,inafe"
poore, weake and fimple mllruments (Go
n
knoweth) waxed fo (ull and forcibk
b
•
Cor.
10.4.
as it
h
caff downeftrong holds, brought into c•ptivitie many
A»
e:ca{ting thought,;
mad~
i
!Iohn H·
aco~quert
of
t~e
wholewerld,
even chen, when it w:).S bent fully in maine oppofition
agamllit: as1thachfetall men
m a
mazecoconfider, howfo. poore a beginning
lhouldgrow cofuch might; that, Wifdome, and Learning,andMighr,andMajefiie
~
Lu1<ett. to.
and all have !looped umo it: and all was but Go n's
k
littlefinger;
all
L
the
brwb
I~Thcfr
.•.
s.
ofHismouth.
Verily, the Wind was never
fo .vebement,
asche Spirithathbeeo–
.
and is, in His proceeding.
'
Thde two are commonwith the Wind; and forchefe two, it mighthavebeene
no
more,but even a common wind.The other two arenocfo; but lhewiccobemore
than awind:
3Tbe,conimingftom Heaven,
4
thejilting but of that oneplace.
Inthef~
two, it is di!like; as, in the former cwo, like the ordinary wind that blowcrb.
31 ,
e1me
from
It
cameftorn Heavm.
Winds (tiatbrally) come not from thence, bur our ofrhe
f!tav<o.
caves and holes of the earth: they blow not downward, but-movelaterally from
one GOall or climate colanother. To come
dire(lly downe,
not only
<k
[ur[11m,
from
above(fo it may be; from cl;le
middle region of the aire)
but
de co;Jo,
from Heavenit
J'fal. ,
31
.
7 •
felfe; that,is
fr•pernatttca!l,
furc :that,is a
Wind
out of G o n's
owne Trea{
"'1
indeed:
that, points usplaindyto Him, that
{5
afcended "Pinto Heaven,
and now [enderhit
downe from thence.
And therefore fendeth
itftom Heaven,
that it may fill us wirh the
breath ofHti
vm.
For, as the
.vindis,
fo arc the bla!l:s, fo is the
breath
ofit:
and,
as is
cheSpirit,
fo are the
motions,
it ufcth ;fo are
there~fons,
it is carried by.
To dillinguilh chis
Wind
from others, is no hard matter. If our
motion;
come
Jtom above;
ifwe ferch our
grottnds
there,dec.,l,,fromheaven,from
Religion,fromthe
S
anlhMry;it
is this wind: but chofe,chat
comeJtom earthly rei}ells,
weknowrheire.ve;
and thatthereisnothing but
nat~~ral
in chem.This
wind
came thence,eo makeushta·
.c.t.p;
'tHinly minded,"(apere
1""'
(t~rfrtm,rofetour
ajfet:lionson things heavenly,
0
andto.f•me
o
Phil.l·'
f·
therrtles of or1r conver(ation agreeable rmto Heaven.
So wee lhall know, what wmd
~
3
,
01
.
01
,,
1
.
blowes; whether it be
de ca?{o,
or
de bominibru
:.
whether it
bedeftu:crucrzli,orexh•~
latio terr.t;
from
heaven
or of
men,
a
breath
from
heaven,
or a
terreneexhalation.
4
ltfiUtd cbat
And like to this is the fourth
:It
filled thatplace where theyfate. T,hat pltce,
where
pta<_eonoly.
they: That place,
not the places about.
That place
it filled: the
orherfe~r
it nor.And
thisisanocherplainediffimily,
Toblowbt~tinone
place:
and !hewethitto bemorc
than ordinary. The common wind, all places within his circuite, it atrerh all ahke;
one as well as another, indifferently.This here fcemerh eo blow
Eleflive;
~Ift~ere
were
fenfe
in it, or it blew by difcretion. For, it blew upon none ofthe neigh our
houCes, none ofrhe places adjacent, where
the{e men were not. That,
and
onely
tM
roome
it filled,
wherethey werefitting.
.
And this [of blowing upon one cerraine place] is apro
pert~
very1\Tell fitting
lohn 3
.s.
· the
:Spirit, vbi vult j}irat.
To blowincerraine places, where it fdfewill;
andup~n
cercaine perfons, and they !hall plainly feele it, and others about them, not
ar
:h
There lhall be an hundred or more in an auditory; one
ji111nd
is heacd., one
'~e
doth blow :at that inftant, one or tWO and no !liOrC ; one here, another tlaere;
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