162 cue poot ano familp 'Zook. bemay have it as the Head, and from Him it is to come tous as his members. Therefore I faid that the whole Gift of the Covenant is (f) Chrift and Life.NowChrift giveth us his fpirit bo h as a Saviour freely, and as a Ruler according to his Law of Grace, as to the Or- der of Conveyance. Therefore as the farfi Gift of the IndwellingSpirit is on Condition of your Faith, fo the Continuance of it is on Condition of your con- tinuing in the faith, (for all that you neither had faith at firit, nor in continuance without the antecedent work ofthe Spirit.) And the increafe and aïlual helps and Comfort ofthe Spirit, are givenyou on Condition of your dependance onChrift your Head for the daily communicationofir. Therefore youmuff remember, I. That the Giving or Denying the helpsof theSpirit to our fouls, are the greateft Rewards and Punifhments which Chriftas our Xing, doth exercife and adminifter on us in this world. And therefore look much at this in your fell, whether Gods Spirit help youor forfakeyou. z. That your Means is to wait on Chrift in the daily Exercife of Faith, and ufe of all his Inftituted ordi- nances, and to attend his Spirit, and not refift it. S. Put I am afraid I have finned againflthe Holy Ghofl, the unpardonable fin : For I have 1oyned with Prophane perfons in deriding :, the Spirit. E f eciolly when I heard many young Students, and Miniflers themfelves do the fame, it emboldened me to imitate them. Ihave mock:el at them that did but talk of the (f) 7ohn6.51 ,52,('.'J"c.57,58. c,5- I4.. I 9. Ca1.2. 20. 6-- 3.3,T4.&4.6. i Thcf. 5. 19, Heb.iö.29.Nch: 9. 20. Pro .1 .23. ',Pik. I I. 13. .Ephef. yt. 30. I'f«l. 51. I I. Col. Ga1.5.17z2I,22;23. Sprit
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