Chap.1.Se6t9 Looking unto 1_efw, BooidV,Part.V 849 the City, but only in this houfe; or·if any other alfembly might be, th1s Spirit blew upon non~ o~ them wbere the{e men were not. that and only that houfe 1t fi ,led, where thty wert fitting . And this p~ynt o! blowing upon one certaine place is a property very fuitable to the Spir.it of God; the wivde 6/oweth whtre it J oh. 3 .~ . liffeth and thou heareft the Jonnd thereof, but canft not tell whence it corne'th nor whither it goeth, fo u evlrJ 8ne that iJ borne of the Spirit. 'The Spirit blows where it will, and upon whom it will, and they {hall plainly fe~le it, and oth~rs about t~et? not one jot : have we not fometnnes the exper1ences of ch1s tn our l'ery congregations ? one found is heard, one breath doth blow, and it may be one or two, and no more heares the found, or feeles / the breath inwardly, favingly; it may be one here, and an~thet< there {hall feele theSpirit, fuall be affeCted and touched with it fenfibly; but twenty oa t~is fide them, and fourty on that fide them fit all becalmed, and go their way no more moved, than when they came into Gods prefence. Oh that this Spirit of the Lord would come dayly . and conftantly into our congregations! Ob that it would blow through them, and through them! 0 that it would fill every foul in the alfembly with the breath · of heaven! come hoiJ Spirit; ttwakJ 0 7'\Jrth-winde, .rnd come Cam; 4 ;16. thou s~uth-wiwde,,md blow upon our gardens, th(ft theJPices thereof may fhw out. - . 6. He came down in the torme oftongues; As one faith well, thu winde brought tongueJ, even a whole /bower of tonguu. The Apoft!es were not only infpired for their own benefic. but they had gifcs beftowed on them to impart the benefit to more than themfelves. But why did the holy Ghoil: appeare like tongues f Ianfwer, 1. The tongue is a fimbole of the holy Ghofts proceeding from the Word of the Father; as the tbngue hath the neareil: affimty with the Word, and is moved by theword Qfthe heart, to exprelfe the fame by the found of thevoyce. fo the holy Gbofl hath the neareft affinity that may be with the Word ofGod, and is the exprelfor of his voyce, and the fpeaker of his will. 2. The tongue is the fole inil:rument of knowledge which ·conveyes the fame from man to man ; though the foul be the fo~ntaine from whence all "Yifdome fprings , y~t t~e tongue is thechannel and the condmr-pype whereby thts w1fdorne and know!edge is communicat~d and transferred from man to man: · Q..q qq q in
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