In the like sense we read, (_Deut._ xxxiv. 9) that _Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him_: that is because he was _ordained_ by Moses, to prosecute the work he had himself begun, namely the bringing of God’s people into the promised land, but prevented by death, could not finish. In the like sense it is said, (_Rom._ viii. 9) _If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his_: not meaning thereby the _ghost_ of Christ, but a _submission_ to his doctrine. As also, (_1 John_ iv. 2) _Hereby you shall know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God_; by which is meant the spirit of unfeigned Christianity, or _submission_ to that main article of Christian faith, that Jesus is the Christ; which cannot be interpreted of a ghost. Likewise these words, (_Luke_ iv. 1) _And Jesus full of the Holy Ghost_, (that is, as it is expressed, _Matt._ iv. 1, and _Mark_ i. 12, _of the Holy Spirit_,) may be understood, for _zeal_ to do the work for which he was sent by God the Father: but to interpret it of a ghost, is to say, that God himself, for so our Saviour was, was filled with God; which is very improper and insignificant. How we came to translate _spirits_, by the word _ghosts_, which signifieth nothing, neither in heaven, nor earth, but the imaginary inhabitants of man’s brain, I examine not: but this I say, the word _spirit_ in the text signifieth no such thing; but either properly a real _substance_, or metaphorically, some extraordinary _ability_ or _affection_ of the mind, or of the body. [Sidenote: Seventhly, for aerial bodies.]