910 . Book.IV.Part.V. Lookingunto1efus. Cbap.~.sea-.6 Job :t6.I)• -33-4• 1 Cor.Io·II• l Cor.t.lo. Act.r.t6. Rom. 5.1. J(l,6 j • 10, Act.s.3,•~>9· Mat.n.:B. :t8·19• 1 Tim·4· J . 2.Co:.3•18· ought more to be accounted than any gifts of any meaner perfon whatfoever. 2. Another circumftance is, the greatnelfe ofche gift; this argueth greatnelfe of good will; and confequently deferveth a correfpondence of a femblable affeCtion. Now what greater gift had Chrift in ftore than to give his own Spirit? the Spirit proceedeth from him, and is the fame eifence with himfelfe; the Spirit is the third perfon of the true and only Godhead, proceeding from the Father and the Sonne; and coeternal, coequal, and confubftantial with the Father and the Sonne; this appeares by thofe divine attributes and properties which are attributed, and communicated to the holy Spirit:. As, I: Eternitie. 'God never was without his Spirit; In the beginning God created heaven 11nd earth,-11nd the Spirit of. qod moved upon the face of the waters. 2. Omnipotency, becaufe he, together with the Father and the Son, createth and preferveth all things, by hu Spirit he hathgarnifhed the heavens; the Spirit ofGod hath made me; ttnd 111/t ·. thefe things workfth that one and the ftlfe fame Spirit, dividing to every manfeverally .u hn11ill. 3. Omnifciency, or the knowledge ofall things, for the Spirit (earcheth all things, jea the deep ' things if God. 4· Immutabilitie, orunchangeablcneife, men, a!'d hrethren, thu Scripture muft needs have been fulfilled which the hoi] Ghoft JPakf. 5. Infinite mercy, orlove; God is love,-and . the love of God is fhed £broad in our hearts by the hoi] Ghoft, which isgiven unto m. 6. Holy indignation even againft hidden fins, they re~ellea, 11ndvexed his holy Spirit; why hath Satan filled th] heart to lye to the holy qhoft? -·thou h.tft not !yed unto men, but unto God; (a plaine text for the divinitie of the holy G hoft)- how is it that ye . have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? g;.ieve not the holy Spirit of qod, whereby ye are fealed unto the dl'.) of redemption. I might adde miracles, and the inftitution offacraments, and prophefies, and gifcs, and graces as the effeCts of his divinity: I caft out devils (faith-Chrift) by the Spirit Bf God,andbt~~ptifeinthe NAme oftheFather, a»aofthe Sonne, and of the holy Ghoft. And the Spirit jpeak._eth exprc.JfefJ, that in the latter timesfomefhall depart from the fairh. And we are changed into the j11me image from glor_y to g!?rJ, even as by the Spirit ofthe Lcrd. See now how the holy Spirit is God, coeternal, coequaJ, and con_fubftantial with God the Father, and God the Son; is · · · · not
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