Chap.1. SeCl.9. 1Looktng unto jjefus. Book IV. 489 v ifired from on high; for the holy Ghoft came upon them, and dwelt in rhem; well might David fay, blefJcd .re they that dweU i11 thy houfe, /had rather be a door-k,.uper in the hoHfe of my Gotl, then to dwelliit the Tentt of Wick,.<dHe[!. They that abode in this houfe were under a promife that the Spirit fhould come, and now was the Promife ac– complifbed; for it filled aH the huufe whm they were fitting. I lay where tbry were jitti11g, to tignifie, that all the other houfes in {.rufalem felt none of this mighry rufh– ing wind : rhere was no alfembly of Saints in any part of rhe C1ty, but onl,y in th1s lwufe; or if any other alfembly might be, rh is Spirit blew upon r10ne of rhem where rhefe men were nor ; thar, and only that houfe is fill~ d. where they were fitting. And this point of blowing upon one certain place is a property very fuirable ro the Spirit of God ; the wi11d blowetb where it lijleth, and thou hureft the found thereof, but canft h not tell whence it cometb . >ror whither it goetb, fa i< every one that i< born of the Spirit. Jo · 3·8. The Spirit blows where it will,and upon whom it will ,and they fhall plainly feel it,and others about tllem nor one jor: have we not Cometimes the experiences of rhis in our very congregations? one found is heard, one brearh dorh blow, and it may be one or twv, and no more hears rhe found, or feds the breath inwardly, ravingly; it m•y be one here, and another there fhall feel the Spirir, fhall be affected and rouched with it fenlibly ; but twenty on this fide rhem, and forty on that fide them fir all becalmed, and go tl1eir way no more moved, then when they came inro Gods prefc:nce. Oh • that this Spirit of the Lord would come daily and conftantly into our congregations I Ohrhat it would blow rhrough them, and through them! Orhat it would fill every foul in the .1\lfembly with rhe breach ofheaveul come holy Spirit; awak! 0 North-wind, llant.4.If. and come thou South-wind, #nd blow upon our Gardens, that the Spices thereof may flow out . . 6. He came down in the form of Tongues. As onefairh well, This Wind brought 'Iongues, even awholejhower of Tongr<eJ, The Apoftlcs were not only mfpued for rheir now benefit, but they had gifrs bellowed on them to impart rho ben~fit to more then themfelves. But why d1d the holy Ghollappear like Tongues? I anfwr:r. 1. The Tongue is a Symbolc of the holy Gholls proceeding from the Word of the FitIter; as the Tongue bath the nearell affinity with the Word, and is moved by tht>word of the heart, ro exp.efs the fame by the found of; the voice 1 fo the holy Ghqll hath the nearelt affiniry that may be w.ith the Wor.~.of' God, and is the exprclfor of his voice, and the fpeaker of his will. :. The Tongue is the foie inllrumentofKnow. ledge which conveighs the lame from man to man ; though the Soul be the Fountain from whence all wiCdom {prlngs, yet the Toague is the Channel and the Coaduit– pipe whereby this wifdom and knowledge is communicated and transferred fro111 man to man: in like manner the holy Gho(\ i~ the foie Authoraod teacher ofall Truth; theugh Chrifi be rhe wifdom of God, yet the holy Ghofi is the Teacher of this wifdom to men; And hence it is that the holy Ghoft appeared in the form of Tongues. · And yet not ~e;rly in the forw of Tongues, but thus qualified. •· They were ~/oven '{.onguei; If? lignifie that. the Apollles fhould fpeak in dinrs Languages; if there mull be a calling of the Gentiles, they mull needs have the Tongu<s of the Gcnt&les whrre'ri~h to call them ; if ihey were debtorr 11ot only to the Jews,b"t to the Grt- ll.o!l.r. 14 • ..,) cta>rs; nor only to the Greci•,'!s, Jlut t• the Barbarians4/f•• then mull they have the · tongues nor only of the [<wl, but of the Greci&lls and Barb&rians to pay this debt, and ro dilcharge.this dory ofgo, and teach all NatioHs. Surely thil gift was bellowed M t 8 for the propagaringof t.he Gofpel far and wide; rhe Tongues were cloven that the • ·• o~,. Apo(lles m•g~t f~eak all L~nguag~s, and that all Nations of ~he w.orld whitherfoever they ca~,mrght hea~ rhem?~nd under(land rhem fpeaking rn tketr own Tongwes. 2 •.They were jiory T011guu; to fignifie that there fhould be an efficacy, or fervourin thetr fpeakmg; the World was fo over-whelmed with ignorance and errour, that the Aponies hps had need to be touched with a eole from the />.I tar; Tongues offle{h would ~ot fcrve the rum, nor wqr.ds ofair, but there mull be fire put into the Tongue,- and Spmt of hfe mto the words they fpake; wirh fuch a tongue Chrill fpake himfelf, when rhey fa id of him, did not oHr bearts burn ..ithin 111, while be fPak,e uniJJ ut Luk. , 4 . 3 .,: by the way? ~nd wirh fuch a tongue Pmr fpake at this time, fomcthing like lire fell _ from h1m en the!t hearrs, when rhey were prickedin their hearts, and laid, men and Mt.t. : . brethren wh~t jhallwe do? Oh rhat we of the Mm11lry had thefc IU:ry Ton[\uesl 0 . i 7· ' rh1t rho Spul! would put his live-coale into our fpecches! Oh that our Sermons were warming
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