BOOK L GENERAI PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS WORK, CHAP. L (1.) 1 Cor. xii. l Opened. II,sv1s ou , spiritual gds. Theirgrant unto, use, and abuse in that church. (2.) Jesus, how called Anathema; impietyofthe Jews. Howcalled Lord. The foundation of church -order and worship. (S.) Inwhat sense weare enabled by the Spirit to call Jesus Lord. (4.) The Holy Spirit the author ofall gifts; why called God, and the Lord. (5.) General distribution of spiritual gds.(6.) Pro- per end oftheir communication. (7.) Nine sorts ofgifts; abuse ofthem.in the church. Their tendency unto peaceand order. (8.) General design ofthe ensuing discourse concerning the Spirit and his dispensation. (9.) Importanceofthe doctrine concerning theSpirit's work, in effectually applying to the souls of Wren the spi- ritual blessingspurchased by Christ. (10.) The suitableness ofhis work to supply the absence of Christ, as to hishuman nature. Concernment thereof. (11.) WorkoftheSpirit in the ministration ofthe gospel. (12, 18.) Allsaving good communicatedunto us, andwrought in us by him.(11..) Sin against theHoly Ghost irremissible. (15.) Falsepretences untothkSpirit dan;erous.(16.) Pretences unto the Spirit ofprophecy underthe Old Testa- ment.(17.) Two sorts o`, alseprophets; thefirst.(lb.) The second sort. -(19.) Pretenders under the New Testament.(20, 21.) TIte rulefor the trial of such pretenders, 1 Jonx iv. 1, 2, 3.(22.) Rules to this purpose under the Old and New Testament compared.(23.) Afalse spirit set up against the Spirit of God, examined.(24.) False and noxious opinions concerning theSpirit, and how to beqbviated.(25.) Reproaches of theSpirit and his work. (26. Further declared.(27.) Principles and occasions ofthe apostacyofchurches under the law andgospel.(28 ) Dispensation ofthe Spirit not confined to thefirst ages of the church. (29, 30, 31.) The great necessity of a diligent inquiry into the things taught, concerning the Spirit of God and his work. THE apostle Paul, in the 12th chapter of his first epistle to the Corinthians, directs their exercise of spi- ritual gifts; concerning which, amongst other things and emergencies, they had made inquiry of him. This, the first words wherewith he prefaceth his whole dis- course, declare, verse 1. Now concerning spiritual gifts; mg, 8c T ,cvpaT , that is, xati000voi, as his ensuing declaration doth evince; and the imagination of some concerning spiritual persons to be here intended, con- trary to the sense of all the ancients, is inconsistent with the context. Tor as it was about spiritual gifts, and their exercise, that the church had consulted with [t,svtcas , ow..oua,caxav ósr ce igya Ts :rsv¡tzsos ,cve, k?,, tv.QQan,nç, i uc4SQoc,, T,retns ais To vs T,,Ta,na%zupece. eo ;ycv.Chrysost. in Loc. So also Ambrose and Theo- vbylact. in Loc. him, so the whole series of his ensuing discourse is directive therein. And therefore, in the close of it, contracting the design of the whole, he doth it in that advice, 'ryr.sn t4 Ta xaVat rera TO .eamram, covet the best gifts; namely, among those which he proposed to treat of; and had done so accordingly, ver. 31. The VC ,n,o. ttammaa of ver. 1. are the VS xagpetvana of ver. 31. as it is exprest chap. xiv. I. dos.TS 8. Ta ,ruevasTUea; that is, xa- ti005ea, desire spiritual gifts; whose stature and use you arenow instructed in, as at first was proposed. Of these that church had received an abundant measure, especially of those that were extraordinary, and tended to the conviction of unbelievers. For the Lord having much people in that city, whom he intended to call to the faith, Acts xviii. 9, 10. not only encouraged our apostle against all fears and dangers, to begin and carry on the work of preaching there., wherein he continuer
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