Chap.I .Seet.I r L~iklngunl61cfru. BooldV.Part.V. 8~ 7 ------------------------------------------- ----- receive, for the holy Ghoft WM not Jet given,, hecatt/e that refm WM not pt glorified; for thofe words fout of his belly /hall flow rivers of livi~g wAttt, by living water, is meant grace, by rivers of livMg _ water is meant the manifold graces of the Spirit, by the flowing oftheje river~, is meant the aboundiryg and communicafing of _ thofe~racesfromoneto_onother, and by ~he belly out ofwh~ch thofe rzvers /bould flow, IS meant the heart Indued or filled Wtth the holy Ghoft ; ~ow the fpring and rivers; the fountaine and ftreamesare diverfe things, and w be diilinguifbed; the one is the caufc, and the other the effea ; the one is the tree, and the other the fruit· · it is the holy Gbofi filling the he:trts ofbeleevers that is the fp.ridg and founta ine whence all th9fe rivers of living waters flow; and theref-ore faith the Evangelifi: exprdfely, this [plfk_e he oft he Spirit,whir:h theythat belteve fbould recdve, ofwhat Spirit ? even of the holy Ghoft, which in fnll meafure wM not yet given,becaufe thtiZt Chrift wa; not}ftglorified ; it is the fame S_pirit .which beleevers receive, whence all theft rivers of living water! flow; but thofe rivers flow not from habitual grace, nor from ·any ofthe graces of the holy Ghofi, but from the holy Ghoft himfelf. · Againe~ when the Spirit oftruth is come, he wiltguide )OU inti I h 6 3 , all truth,-and he willjlm~ )OU things to come. Now the habits 0 ' 1 ' 1 • of grace cannot guide or teach, or !hew a man things to come ; the habits ofgrace c&nnot fpeak, and heare; as it is there written, he fhalJ not [peak_ of himfelfe, but whatfoever he fhalt he11re, that {hail be [p.cak.; This can be no other than the Spirit in his own perfon, this is the Comforter, that heares, and fpeaks, and guides into all truth, and fhewes us things to come~ Againe, the love of God is /bed abroade in our hearts by the holy R Cjhoft which is given unto us. Beltdes,rhe grace of the Spirit, which om. 5-5'·· ts.the love ofGod; the holy Ghoft, or the Spirit it felfis faid to b~ g1ven unto us. And ye are not in the :flefb, but in the Spirit. If (o 6nhat the Spirit ofGod dwell in you. Here's a plaine diflindion betwixt Rom. 8·9· the new ~an, our being in the Spirit, and the Spirit dwelling tn us;_ ~ow if. any TYltln hav~ not the Spirit of (hrift, ( i.) tlie fame holy Spmt w_h!Ch dwelleth 10 our head and Saviour Jefus Chrifi, he it none of h11.- But if the Spirit of him that rtlifcd 'Jefus from 'the · R r r r r duui
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