Howe - B3999 R4 H68 1702

Part II. The Living Temple. 345 We eafily conceive, how the meaneft Perfons may, by Vouchfafement, have Relation to, and Interefi in, thegreat- en , fo God gives Himfelf, his Son, his Spirit to them that Covenant with him; as we alfo take the Father, Son, and Spirit, to be our God; as the Bap- tifmal Form fignifies. And when we fo Covenant., then bath this Giving its full and compleat Senfe. And now, having thus far feen, in what fenfe the Bleffed Spirit of God may be fail to be given, or communi- cated, we come next, briefly, to thew (as the other intended Premife) 2. In what refpe&we are here, par- IV. fiiantly to theDrift and Defign of the prefent Difcourfe, to affirm a necety, in reference to this Communication. It may admit a twofold Reference, backward to the Conflitutionof EMMA- NZ1EL, on which it depends. For- ward, to the Reflauration of God's Tem- ple, which depends on it. There was a confequent, moral. Ne- ceffity of this Communication ; upon what the EMMAN7JEL was, did, fuffer'd and acguir'd. There

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