damming 168 The Living Temple. Part II. holy bledSpirit : For thefrefh Emif f on whereof, in God's own ftatedMethod, he had now again opened the way. That this Bleflîng is hereby laid to become the Portion of the Gentiles, was enough to the Apo ftles prefent purpofe writing to the Galatians. The Jews having, upon the fame Terms, had the fame Priviledge formerly from Age to Age, Thou gavefi thygood Spirit to infrua them, Nehem. 9. 20. which alfo is imply'd in their being charged with vexing and reje6ting this Blelfed Spirit, one Generation after another, lf. 6 . io. Atis 7. 5 t. And they had now the fame Gofpel, and are here al- fo/ included, in that 'tis Paid to be the Bleffng of Abraham. Into the Como munion whereof, the Gentiles are now declar'd to have beenadmitted ; about which, fo great Doubt had been in thofe Days : That therefore the Spirit vzight be given: for the mention'd pur- pofe, on the account of the Son o fGod's Oblation ofhimfelf-, is out of queftion. The Necefìty that he fhould be only gi- wrn on theft Terms, will t e feen here- after, in its proper place, in Ch. g. But
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