224 The Life of Faith. to your remembrance, whatfoever Ihave raid unooylu,Joh. a6. t 3. When the Spirit ofTruth is come, he will guide you into all Truth, &c. Hob, 2.4. God alfa bearing them witnefs, bathwithfigns, and wanders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghed', according to his own wilt. Dire& i 5. And as fuck gifts of the Spirit was given to the Apofiles as their fce required ; fo thefe fanUif}ing graces, or that Jfriritual Life, Light andL eve, aregiven by it to all true Cbri- ffiases, which their calling andTitivation dotb require. John 3. 5, 6. Except aman be born of Water, and of the rit, be cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. That which is born of the f r/h, isjefh ; and that which is born of the Spirit, if Spirit, Fhb, z2. 14. Withoutbolinefs none pay fee God, Rom. 8. 8,9,10,r4, ?bey that are in the flefh cannot pleafe God t But ye are not in thefiefh, but in the Spirit, if fo be that theSpirit of God dwell inyou. Now if any man bave nat the Spirit of Ghriff, be it none of hie. See alto v. 1,3,4,5,6,7, &c. Titus 3,5,6,7. He favedus by the was/hing of Regeneration, andthe renewing of the HolyGboft, which befliedon us abundantly, through Jefus Chrilé our Saviour; that being jufriftedby bit grace, we fhouldbe made heirs, according to the hope of eternal life. But the teftimonies of this truth are more numerous than I may recite. Dircd. 16. By all this it.appeareth:bat the Holy Gboff it both Chrifisgreat witnefs objeliively in the world, by which it is that be is ownedof God, andproved to be true; andAlfa bit Advocate or great Agent in the Church, both to indite the Scriptures, and to fanaifiefouir. So that no man can be a Chriftian indeed, without thefe three; I. The objelive witnefs of the Spirit to the truth of Chrift. 2. The Geffel taught by the Spirit in the Apoffles. 3. And the quickening, illuminating and fanUifyiseg work of. the Spirit upon their fouls. Direct. 17. It s therefore intbeferefpels that we are baptized into the Name of the Holy Gheft, as well as of the Father and the Son, it beingbit worktomake Of thus both Believers and Saints; andbit perfeaive workofour real Sanilifrcatioot, being as neseffa. ry to us as our Redemption or Creation, Matth. 19, }kb. 6. t, 2,4,5,6. Iiet&. t8, Ibereforr as evtryG"hriftias o4lookitos,hinttfelf, ss
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