_J. D._ But he must needs fall into these absurdities, who maketh but a jest of inspiration. _They who pretend Divine inspiration to be a supernatural entering of the Holy Ghost into a man, are_, as he thinks, _in a very dangerous dilemma; for if they worship not the men whom they conceive to be inspired, they fall into impiety; and if they worship them, they commit idolatry_. So mistaking the Holy Ghost to be corporeal, something that is blown into a man, and the graces of the Holy Ghost to be corporeal graces. And the words, _inpoured or infused virtue_, and, _inblown or inspired virtue, are as absurd and as insignificant, as a round quadrangle_. He reckons it as a common error, that _faith and sanctity are not attained by study and reason, but by supernatural inspiration or infusion_. And layeth this for a firm ground; _faith and sanctity are indeed not very frequent, but yet they are not miracles, but brought to pass by education, discipline, correction, and other natural ways_. I would see the greatest Pelagian of them all, fly higher. _T. H._ I make here no jest of inspiration. Seriously, I say, that in the proper signification of the words _inspiration_ and _infusion_, to say virtue is inspired, or infused, is as absurd as to say a quadrangle is round. But metaphorically, for God’s bestowing of faith, grace, or other virtue, those words are intelligible enough. _J. D._ Why should he trouble himself about the Holy Spirit, who acknowledgeth no spirit, but either a subtle fluid body, or a ghost, or other idol or phantasm of the imagination; who knoweth no inward grace or intrinsical holiness? _Holy is a word which in God’s kingdom answereth to that, which men in their kingdoms use to call public, or the king’s._ And again, _wheresoever the word, holy, is taken properly, there is still something signified of propriety gotten by consent_. His holiness is a relation, not a quality; for inward sanctification, or real infused holiness, (in respect whereof the third person is called the Holy Ghost, because he is not only holy in himself, but also maketh us holy), he is so great a stranger to it, that he doth altogether deny it, and disclaim it.