. 3&2 Vie. ?hePromifèof theSpirit, of walking S E C T. XI. Thofe flavith fears and tufpicious doubts in thee, they come not from Gods Spirit. Thefe drive 'thee farther offfrom God, they fill thee with hard and difcontented thoughts againfi God : No, its the Spirit of Adoption ; and as of Adoption, tons a Comforter, and an Advocate, 7obn 14. 16. As Chritt is an interceffor in heaven for us ; fo the (pint is in our hearts pleading Gods love, his readinefle to forgive, his willingneQe to receive : as the godly are to pray for the Spirit of Sanfbfication, to alto for the Spirit of Adoption ; you are to pray for the Comfortsof the Spirit, as well as the Grades; for thefeare wings to the foul. the of &firutlien t How neceffary this Grace is to all our Congregati- ons. Oh that God Would breath this fpirituall breath into your fouls. Oh that you knew experimentally what it is to have the. Holy Ghoft defcend upon you. We [peak not of an extraordinary Miraculous way, much leffe of fan- tafficall Delufions and pretended Revelations by the Spirit of Darkne0ë; but the gracious operations of the Spirit in a Sanftifying way. Oh where will you Blafphemers and wretched Mockers appear, who fcoff at the Spi- rit and make a jeer about it? This is not onely togrieve the Spirit of God, which is a grievous fanne, but to doe defpite to it. Now if the Spirit of God bevouchfafed to you, it will come with this two-fold benefit. Fiat, Its a Spirit of Truth, its called fo, and its promifed to lead the Godly into all Truth. Therefore let men never fo much talk, or boati of the Spirit ; if theybe Errors and Hercules which they broach, the good and holy Spirit is not in them ; or if theybeOpinions that carry to loofeneffe and fiber- ty y For its an holy Spirit. The fecond benefit is to doe duties no more in the oldneffe of the Letter; but the newneffe of the Spirit ; this the Apoftle callsfor. Nowto do a Du- ty in the oldneffe of the Letter, is cutlomarily and formally to perform a- ny thing without Chrift, and his Spirit inabling of ias : This is a dead Religion, a dead Faith, and yet few', even very few, goe any further.
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