tlJ.d Y'he Promlfe ofth'e· Spirit. · and bfthe members, was joint~y provided for- in the covenant. ll. The Promije of the Spirit. The promi{e of eternal life to the elect, compre• hends alfo a promife of the Spirit o'f life to be com– municated to -them, and each one of them, at the niCk of time prefix'd in their cafes refpeclively, in' the erer– nat· council; that is, the time appointed to be the time of love, the dawning of the day of grace to them, however long and dark their night · may be. This prorpife is found, Ifa . xliv. 3· ' I will pour my Spi– rit within you.' · The eleCt: of God being, even as · t.he refi of mankind, dead in fin, through the breach 0f the firH covenant, could not be recovered, but through a communicz.tion ofthe Spirit oflife to them: but that Spirit they could not have from an unattoned God. Wherefore, in the covenant, Chrifi undertook to fulfil all righteoufnefs in their name, thereby to purchafe the Spirit for them: upon which was made the promife of the Spirit, the leading fruit 'of Chrifi's purchafe ; called therefore_ the Father's promife by way of eminency, Luke xxiv. 49· In token h~reof the great ·out-pouring of the Spirit was at ChrHPs af-: (enfion, AB:s ii. when he, as OUt. great High-Priefi, • carried in the blood of his facrifice in to the moil: holy place not made with hands, Heb. ix. 11, 12. For, as the fire which was fet to the incenfe, on the golden altar, the altar of incenfe, was brought from off the brazen alt::tr, the altar of burnt-offering in the court: of the temple; fa the Spirit, which caufeth dead fin· ners to 1ive, iifueth from the crofs of Chriil:, who (; fuffered without the gate.' , Now of the promife of the Spirit, there are .two chief branches; namely, the promife of fpiritual moral life, and the promife of faith. , · Fir/l, The promife of fpiritual m(Jrallife, in virtue' .where.of the foul morally dead* in fin, is raif~d to life agam,
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