142 7h~ Promift o/the Spirit. fancHfication of jufiice, there ihall 'fpring up in the ' eanh, after that coftly watering, a plentiful feed, to the foti.sfaction of the foul, Ifa. liii. 10. And tbere– f()re, whoever they be th~t believe not, all thefe, who were reprefented in the covenant fhall infallibly be bronght to believe, as our Lord himfelf, upon the credit of this promife, poth declare, John vi, 37 · ' All that the Father giveth me, £hall come to tne. ' Now this alro belongs to the promife of the Spirit, who is therefo~e called the Spirit of faith, 2 Cor·. iv. 13. as being the principal efficient caufe thereof, Zecb. xii. 18. The effect of this promife, is actual ·bel!eving pro· ouced by the quickning Spirit, in the foul, immedi· ately out of the fpirituallife, given to it by the corn· munication of himfelf thereto, John v. 25. ' The dead ihall hear the voice of the Son of God ;' compa· . red with chap. i. 12, 13. 2 Cor. iv. 13· As receiving Chrifl: paffively, the finner that was fpiritually dead, is quickned; fo being quickned, he rec~ives Chrifi actually. Chrifl: comes into the dead foul, ~y his Spi– rit : and fo he .is paffively received ; even as one, having a power to raife the dead, coming into a houf~, where there's none lo>ut a dead man ; none to open the door to,him, none· to defire him to come in, nor to welcome him. But Chrifl: being thus received, or come in, the dead foul is quickned, and by faith em· braceth him ; even as the Refiorer ·of' the dead man to life would immediately be embraced by him, and receive a thouG,md welcomes fi·om him, who had beard his voice and lived. When Ghrifi, in t.he womb of his mother, entrcd -into the houfe of Zacharias, and ihe L'liuted Eli(aleth the mother of 1ohn t~e Bap– tifl, he, the babe in Elifabeth's womb, leaped as at the entrance of life : fo cloth the foul, in actual believ– ing, at·Chrifl:~s coming into it, by his Spirit. As God breathed into the fi.rfi man the breath of life, and be be-came tl living foul, who was before but a_ lifelefs · piece
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