'Book m. OR Tl-fE 'G '0 s ,p E L G L 0 R I 0 u s. 533 EJur folemn Engagement to believe in him, to yield Obedience to him, and to worfi1ip him, as it puts the fame Obligation upon us to the Father and the Soo. So alfo in Reference unto the Worfhip of the Church, he commands that the MiNijlcrs of it be ftparated tmto himfe!f. 'I'he Holy Ghojl j'Ciid, Separate~ne Barnabas andSaulfor the Work whereunto] have.called them, Atls xiii. z, 4· So they being fent fcrth by rhe Holy Gbojl, departed. Which is comprehenG ve of all religious vVorfhip of the Church. And -on the fame Account is he finned againft, as Atls v. 3, 4, 9· for there is the . fame Reafon of Sin and Obedience. Againtl whom a Man may Gn formally and ulti– mately, .him he is·bound to obey, worfhip and believe in. And this can be no-Q!;'alitv, but God himfelf, for what may be the Senfe of this Expreffion, 'Thou hajllied to the Efficacy of God in his Operations·? .Or how can we be formally obliged unto Obedience to a Q!Jality? There muft then an Antecedent unto Faith, Truft and religious Obedience betuppofed as the Ground of rendering a Perfon capable of being guilty of Sin to– wards any. For Sin is but a Failure in Faith, Obedience, or Worfhip. Thefe there– fore are due unto the Holy Gholl:; or a Man could not fin againll: him fo lignally and fatally as fame are fa id tO do in the foregoing Tell:imonies. I fay therefore unto this part of our Caufe, as unto the other, that unlefs we will , call: off all Reverence of God, and in a kind of Atheifm, (which as I fuppofe, the prevailing Wickednefs of this Age hath not yet arrived unto) fay that the Scriptures -were written on purpofe to deceive us, and tO lead us into Miftakes about, and M if– .apprehenfions of, what it propofeth unto us, we muft acknowledge the Holy Ghoft to be a Suhll:ancc, a Perfon, God, yet diftinct from the Father, and the Son. .For to tell us, that he will be our Comforter, that he will teach us, lead us, guide us, that he Jpoke of old, in and by the Prophets, that they were moved by him, aCted .by him, that hefearcheth the deep 'I'hings of God, 1 Cor. ii. 10. works as he will, that heap– •.pointeth to himfelf Minifters in the Church: In a Word, to declare in places innu– merable what he hath done, what he cloth, what he fays and fpeaks, how he af.ls and ,proceeds, what his Will is, and to warp us that w" grieve him not, fin .not agai.nil him with Things innumerable of the like nature, and all this while to oblige us ro believe that he is not a Perfon, an Hdper, a Comforter, a Searcher, a \Niller, but a QLu litv -in fame efpecial Operations of God or his Power and Virtue in them, were to dithac'l: l)1en, not to inflruEt them, and leave them no certain ConcluGon but this, that there is nothing certain in the whole Book of God. And of no other Tendency are thefe and the like Imaginations of our Adverfaries (n this Matter. Dr. Ow<n. Secondly, The Gofpel is glorious in refpeEt of the Rev~lation made therein of the Spirit touching his glorious Works and Operations. 1. The Framing, Forming and miraculous Conception of the Body of ,our Lord Jcfus Chrift in the* Womb of the bleffed Virgin, was the peculiar and fpecia'l Wor'k of the Holy Gho!r. This Work I acknowledge in rtfpeEt of Defignation, and 1he .authoritative Difpofal of, Things is afcribed unto the Father, for fo the Lord Chr.ift fpeaketh unto him, A Body haft t/,ou prepared me, lleb. x. 5· but this Preparation rlotl1 not fignify the atlual forming and making ready of that Body, but the et<:"rnal D,fig– nation of it, as prepared in the Council and Love of the Father. As to the volun– tary Ajfumption, it is afcribed to the Son himfelf, Heb. ii. 14. For as much as rhe Children were Partake~·s of Flefh and Blood, he bimfelf partook of the fame. He took ·UntO him a Body and Soul, entire human Nature, as the Children or all Believers, the famejjnecdochically exprelfed by Flefh and Blood, Ver. 16. He took on him tbe Seed of Abraham. But the immediate divine Efficiency in this Matter was the peculiar Work uf the Holy Ghoft, Matt. i. 18. When his Mother Mary was efpoufed to Jofeph, before they came together fhe was found to be with Child of the Holy Ghoit: Luke i. 35· '!'he Angel anfwe.ed and faid unto her, 'I'he Holy Gbojl fhall come upon thee, and the Powe.· JJf the Higbejl fhall overfhadow thee : 'I'herefore a!fo tbat holy 'Ihi11g which fha/l be bor;z of thee fba/l be called the Son of God. • 'Maximum. in trJia crcatura Tejlimonium de Di-vinitate Sp/ritus Sanlli ccrpus Domi11i ljl; quod tX Spiritll Sa~1qo eJfe credllurjwmdu1n E-vangelijlam, Mart. i. Siwt Antelus ad Jojfphsmz dicit, Qyod in ea 1WtuJi'l tf1 de $pmtu Sm:O~ ejl. Athanafius de fid. un. & Trin . . Crtatrix <uirtus A!t_iJJ!mi, juptr·ven~ente Spiritu Sanllo in -.Jirgint!JJ Mariam, Chrijli Ctirpus fabrica".;it; .fjUD il/e ujus 'l'~mplofine vm natus rjl femme. Didym. de Sp. S<:.nCt. lib. .z, 6 u (1.) The
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