to 6'011 )P SAINTS. poure my holy Spirit upon you : But you will not come un- to mee for it. This makes us without excufe , That Chrift hath the Spirit in him , for' all that have a mindeto him, and wee have no ininde. How few among you tothis very day have gotten yet Gods holy Spirit ? 'fee pray, but yee have not the fpirttof lupplication to pray by, to lift up your hearts,to enliven your delires,to be able to wreflle with God to and purpolr, no (pink of grace [lining in you. When yee come to the home of God, yee heare fermons, but the holy Ghoit does not fall upon you to make them ef- feftuall and mighty in operation,to convert you to God, to knock off your bale lofts : yee-are dead in all holy duties, Boyd of all heavenly graces,dull to every good thing, even as the body without the fpirit is dead. Nay the fpirit of the World dwelleth in molt men , tying and gluing them to the things here below , and will not let them favor and reltfh the things of heaven ; whereby they cannot ceafe from frnne,nor work the works of God. Rare is that man, now -a -day s , that hath the holy Spirit of God remaining in him in any meature : nay, if people were asked,whether they have the Spirit of God, yea or no, their own confci- ence could atslwer, No they have not : they never felt any fuch Divine gull their earthiinetle and lumpifhaelTe of heart in all the Ordinances of God, their unacquaintednetle with God, their unfedledneffe, and nakedneffe, and blind - neff in all the wayes of peace, plainly does declare it ; and yet they will not come unto Chritt that they might have life : he hath the feven Spirits of God, and yet they cannot fihde in their hearts , to bee inftant and earneft with him : When Pharaoh appointed Iofeph to ditiribute Corn to all commers ; goe to lofeph,fayes he,Gen 41.55 . the Text lays, all Conntreyes came to lof eph for Corne, decamp the famine MU fore in all lands. But God hath appointed his own Son to be a difpencer of the Spirit, and there is a fore want of the Spirit every where, in all Towns and Parifhes, and yet hardly any will come in.Certainly,this is the condemnation, that men intend their pleafure, and their profits, and every L 3 out- 77
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