Sermon _r.____o.:...f_t_he_H_._o_L_Y_G_H_o_s_T_._______5_9_9_ ~frherwoNaturuunitedinCH" r • T ;even of Go o with man. And Love- ·maoine that He will enter (Eifemialluoitie) but where there is umrie1The canwe1 b ' · · · fn• · ? v ·r h · IJirit oftmitie, but where there IS mutteo 1 rmt. en y t ere 1s not, there cannot llibl be amore proper and pccuhar,amore true and cerrame d1fpofinon,to make ' po 1 tycor H"tm than that qualitie in us, that islikefi His nature and effence, that is usmee r' , J d h . . h ~nanimitic. Faith, to the Wora; an Love tot eSptrtt, aret e:rue Preparatives. And thereisnot a greater barrc, a more fatall or fombleoppofinon to H1s cmrie, than difcord, and difmmedmmdes, and fuc[us arem theg~llofbtttcrneffe '. They can AIU, , . · h ·vcnorreceivetht HoLY G H_os T• • Dzvifmr;e,rcore~rum>]amJamznter- ·l nett ergt . h . d" "d J 1 . d. h C d" tbnnt(faiththeProphet) thm <art IS zvt ea, ne1raccor 1sgonc, t at or 1s un- aoc~~·~ ' 1 ijled· rheywmotlive, theSpirit is gone too. "' A~ddoe wee marvell, thatthe Spirit doth fprcdy pant in us: that wee ling and fay, Come H o L Y G H o s T, and yet Hee commeth no faller~ Why, TheDay of Pentecofl is come, and we are not aNof one ac,·ord. ~c,·ord IS wamu;~g : The veryfirflpoint is wanting, tomake us meetforHts commmg. Sure, Htsaf. rer-commingwill belike to His firll:: to them, that are (and, not to any, but them · that arc) of oneaccord. · , And who fhall make us of one accord? High !hall be his reward in Heaven, and happie his remembrance on earth, that fhall be the meanes to reflorethis accord to rhe church: that once we may kcepe a true and perfect PentecoJI,hke tlus here, Erant pmnes tmanimiter. I paffc to the f~cond. But fuppofc wee were of one accord; is not that enough~ May wee not fpare • zn '"'plais; this other, of oneplace ? .If our nmzdes be one, fortheplace 1t sk1lls not; 1t ~s but a circumflance or ceremome, what fhould wee fiand at lt ~ Yes fure; feemg the H 0 L y G Ho s T hath thought it fo needfull, as~o enter it; wee may not paife ic over, or leave it out. Not onely, of one minde (that is) unanimitie: but alfo, in oneplace too (that is, tmiformitie.) Both, in the ttnitie of the Spirit, that is, inward; andinthebondof pca.e too, that is, outward. An Item, forthofe, whom the v1po- Eh ( -– ftlecallcth Filii Et~bjlraflionis, that forfake the CongregatiOJ< (as, even then, in the P '·H· v1poJI!es Times, the manner offomcwas) anddoe'with-draw·themfelves, to their Heb.to. 39 ; perdition, to no lcifemancr. Go o's will is, wecfhould be, as upon one foun- Hcb.>o.•r dation, founder oneroofe : That, is His doing, .fl!!} facie tsnaninm, &c. Bee that Pfli,<ss ..,:; • maketh men ofone mindc tQ d.vcllin one houft. · Therefore it is exprefly nOted, ofthis Company here (in the Text) where they pray, they' prayed altogether ( Chap.4. 14.) When they heard, they heard all together (chap. 8. 6. ) When they brake bmd, they did it all together ( vcrfe46. ) v111 together, ever: not, in one place, fome; and fomc in another: but, bm .> .:v7i, all in one and thefclfc-fameplace. For, fay what they will, Diviflmof places .will not long be without ·diviflon of miiJdes. This mull: be our ground. The fameSpirit, thatlovetlltmanimitie, loveth tmiformttie; unitie even in matter ofoircumjlan>e, in matter ofplace. Thus theChrm·h wa§ begun; thus it rnufi pc continued. · . 'I' othcfe,doe the Fathers jo:ytie a.third: which they raife.out ottheWord;Dam t wbilerbe . complerentt~r. A difpofirion in them, whereby Chey held out and fiirred nor even ftf 11daytr "'"~ tt!l the fiftie dayes JVere fulfilled. Th"iu former tmanimitie /this laoter, long;nimi: f•lf.P<d: tu. There is in us, ·an hot ha!l:ie fpirir, impatient 9f any delay: what we would have, we would have out of hand: and rhefeJame"Dttm, and Danec, aod fuch like wohdste lovethem nor. This Spirit was even in thele here (the Apojl/es'rhemfelves) att e r~ aswemay.fec: in the.laflchap. verf. 6. where they !hew it: Dominejamwe. 'b"? oa n tVilt tbou now? even now ? by andby~ But that Spirit He cafi our,' :v;r Nof e~ ve~r#m,&o. M anete vo>, d'""· After whichcharcregiven, though arrhe m am 0 Hts afcending, He promffed Hewould fend themr~. Ho n GHoST; yet Ch>p.•.i'! H h h ~ ' they ··
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