342 The Laving Temple. Part II. to be Omnipotent, and deny it of any Perfon of the Godhead ? Therefore, the Spirit's Perfonal Prefence, alone, loth not diflinguithBelievers from o- thers ; even though we fuppofe that Prefence to be never fo intimate ; God is all, and in all, more inward, or inti- mate to us, than we are to our felves. An Afferrion carrying its own Evidence fo fully in it felf, as eafily to be trans- ferr'd from the Pagan Academy, to the Chrifiian Church, fo as, generally, to obtain in it. q.. That, therefore, fuch as (peak of thespirit's being prefent by his era- cioìrs Influences, Operations, and Ef fells, fuppofe his Perfonal Prefence, fromwhich they canno more be fever- ed, than the Beams from the Body of the Sun. TheWay of Divine Opera- tion being, alfo, by an Immediatenefs both virtutis, & fuppofti, of both Power and Perfon, as it is commonly, and fitly enough, wont to be fpoken. If zany, therefore, ílould fpeàk of the Spirit's perfonal Prefence, as feclud- ing gracious Efeas wrought thereby, do not, herein, fay a greater thing; than the others, but much lets. For . tho'
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