:854 Book.'IV .Part.V. Lookingunto[feftl!. Chap.I.Sett.u fuch a Pentecoft as this, never was but this, never the ltke before or fince; it was Chrifts Coronation-day, the day of placing him in his throne, when he gave thefe gifts unto men, and therefore that day was all magnificence fhcwc:d above all other daycs; Thus for the mcafure of the Spirit now given to the Church of Chrift. ' SEer. II. Of the re.tfons why the holy Ghofl wM fent; 5· FOr the reafons why the holy Ghoft was fent; they are feveral: AsJ, That all the prophdies concerning this miffion might be accomplifhed. Ifaiah fpeak$ ofa time when the Spirit jhould be Ifa.3~. x~. poured upon us from on high, and the wildernef[e foould be lljruitful field. And Zachary propheCies, that in that day I will poure upon Zlcb.u.Io, the houfe ofDAvid and upon the inhabitants of 'ferufalem the Spirit ofgrace andfupplication. And {oel prophefies yet more e.x:preffely, it fhall CQme to paffe, that I will poure out my Spirit upon all flefh, tend JOUr fens and JOIIr daughters jhal/ prophejie , }DHr ofd Jt>el ~.:r.t, 19· men fhall dreame drearnes, your young menfhali fee vijions; and 11/fo upon the fervants and 11pon the hand-maides in thofe d.~.yes I will ·poure out my Spirit, and they {hflll prophejie. This very prophefie - was cited by Peter in his firft Sermon after the Spirits million. A [f. 2. 17, 18. in which we readeoftwo pourings of the Spirit, one upon theirfonnn, and the other upon his fervants; the for· mer concerned only the Jewes, they fbouldhave prophelies, vifions, and dreames~ the old way of the Jews; bot the latter concernes us, we are not of their flnnes, but of his fervantt; to whom vijions and drrames are left quite out; and therefore ifany now pretend to thofe vi!ions and dreames, we fay with 'f.eremy, the Pr~phet. that hath a dreame, let him tell a dreame, but he that Jer. 23 , 1 s. hath my Word let himfpeak._rnJ Word faithfully, whttt is the chlljfe to the wheate? but of all the prophefies concerning the miffiot1 ' of the holy Ghofr, our Saviour gives the cleareft and the mo~ particular; i:wo great prophe!iei we finde in thejible, th~ one~f
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