to the E PHE S I AN S. 221 zhi11gs alfo? I will argue likewife; Hath he given the Perfon of his Spirit to~ you'todwell (not perfonally, take heed of that,) but toi:lweU m your perlons f'?r Ser:XVJI. ever; why, will11e not gtve Heaven and all thmgs elfe,. whtch are lefs than I!ts ~ Spirit ? The gift of the Holy Ghojl ts the foundation ol all Grace and Glory. And more (my Brethren) we have two of the greatefl: Pawns of our going to Heaven that ever was: Firll, We have the Lord Jeius Chnft m Heaven with our Nature to lhew that man's Nature lhall come there; there is a Pawn in heaven for it. 'He fendeth down the Holy Ghojl into our hearts, the Third Per!on, to lhew we lhall come thither likewife; for this Spirit will fetch us up. If he be given to your Perfons once, (as I lhalllhew you by and by) he will neve_r reft till he hath brought you thither. So he IS called an Ermujl ~ becaufe he Is the great gift, and will draw on the lefs. . . And£econdly, If he be given you limply, h1s Perfon to your perfons, why then he is engaged to bring you to heaven. You tht~k,_tf you get Grace in your hearts, there ts an Earoefl: of heaven. Why, Grace m It felf mtght be loft, if it were not for the HolyGhoj/, that d':Velleth m your hearts; that IS the Fountain of it: theStreammaybecutoff; butJf the Stream have a Fountam that continu– ally bubbletl1up, the Stream. will nev'"r be dried up, the perpetuityof the Stream dependeth upon the Fountam. Now, who IS the Fountam of all Grace? It is the Holy Ghofr, the gift of the Holy Ghofr, Joh.y.j8. He that 6ekzevethoiz me, af the Scrtptttre bathJaid, otlf of hJS belly jha!J jlow Rtvers of llvmg water. Here is a Fountain you fee, whence lhall flow Rivers of Living water. Who is this Fountain? Read on, This he Jpake of the Spirit, which they that believe on himfbouldrecrive. It is the fame Spirit, my Brethren, that works Grace and works Glory. In Rom.8.2l· we are faid to have received the Fir{l-jrttits of the Spirit. Why is Grace there called the Firj/-frttits of the Spirit; but becaufe if you have the Spirit, you lh~ll have Glory? The fame Spirit that works grace works glory as the fame ground that beareth the Firft-fruits beareth the Crop. ' Learn therefore to value and prife this great gift of the Holy Ghofl: If he dwell in you, and hath begun to work Grace in your hearts, (which is an Argu– ment, his Perfon is given to your perfons for ever,) he will never leave you. The Spirit doth not dwell in us as he did in Adam, fo long as we !hall be holy. but he dwelleth in us to work holinefs,.he cotueth down to us therefore when·w~ are unholy. I will name but one place, it is RQm.8.I I. If the Spirit of. him that rai{ed up Jefos from the dead dwt!J tnyou; what then? He. thaf rat(ed 11p Chrifl from the dead, jba!J alfo qt~tckmyottr mort:'l6od~es 6y hu Sptrtt that dwelleth in yott. My Brethren, Doth the Spmt dwell m you now? When you are laid in the wave, that Spiritdwelleth in you, as he did ih th_e body o! Chrift; I do not fay, m the fame htgh manner. The Spmt of God dtd dwell m the body of Chrift in the grave, and raifed it up, he never left him ; though his body was a dead Car– kafs without a Soul; yet that body was hypoftatically united to the Godhead therefore it is called Holy 011e; My Holy one /ball not fee corrt~ption. Now th; comparifon is, If we have theSpirit of Chrift, and if he dwell in us, the fame Spirit lhall never leave'our Bodies till he hath raifed us up alfo. Nay, while thy Body is dead a.nd rotten in the grave, the HolyGhojldwelleth in it. So that now ~he gift of the Holy Ghojl, it is the greateft Earneftof heaven that could be. Th~t IS the firft. As ~he Spirit is an Eamefl of heaven, fo the graces of the Spirit are to alfure the thmg fttll, for that IS one ~fe <;>f, an Earnefi. My Brethren, Grace is part of heaven, as I.have oft expreft It, Itls that to Heaven which colours are to Var– nilh, that i~ Grace to'Glory. He that 6elieveth bath eternal itfe. Love (you kn~w)tsfatdtoremam, 1 Cor,'.l· and Grace is called the Firjl-jr11its of the Spmt, Rom.8.2~, Andfo now m general you fee, how the Holy Gboft is fa id to be the Ear1uj/ of our Inheritance in a more large fenfe than the work of Alfurance; he is ~n Earnejl both in the gift of his Perfon, and likewife in his Graces. What Graces you will fay? Why, in Faith and Love, You would look "for fame glorious thing now; Faith
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