54 PEEULrAlt WORKS perties of God, as to believe him the only proper object of all acts and duties of religious obedience, and an all- sufficient satisfaction and reward in this world, and to eternity. Secondly, A free, uncontrolled, unentangled disposition to every duty of the law of his creation, in order unto living unto God. Thirdly, An ability of mind and will, with a readiness of compliance in his af- fections, for a due regular performanceof all duties and abstinence from all sin. These things belonged unto the integrity of his nature, with the uprightness of the state and condition wherein he was made. And all these things were the peculiar effects of the immediate opera- tion of the Holy Ghost. For although this rectitude of his nature be distinguishable and separable from the faculties of the soul of man; yet, in his first creation, they were not actually distinguished from them, nor sa- peradded or infused into them when created, butwere, concreated with them; that is, his soul was made meet and able to live to God as his sovereign Lord, chiefest good, and last end. And so they were all from the HolyGhost, from whom the soul was, as bath been de- clared. Yea, suppose these abilities to be superadded unto man's natural faculties, as gifts supernatural(which yet is not so) they most be acknowledged in a peculiar manner to be from the Holy Spirit. For in the resto- ration of these abilities unto our minds, in our renova- tion unto the image of God in the gospel, it is plainly asserted, that the HolyGhost is the immediate operator ofthem. And he doth thereby restore his own work, and not take the workof another out of his hand. For, in the new creation, the Father, in the way of authority, designs it, and brings all things unto an head in Christ, Eph. i. 10. which retrieved his original peculiar work; and the Son gave unto all things a new consistency, which belonged unto him from the beginning, Col.. i. 16. So also the Holy Spirit renews in us the image of God, the original implantation whereof was his peculiar -work. And thus Adam may be said to have had the Spirit of God in his innocency. He had him in these peculiar effects of his power and goodness; and he had him according to the tenor of that covenant, whereby . it was possible that he should utterly lose him, as ac- cordingly it came to pass. He had him not by especial inhabitation; for the whole world was then the temple - ofGod. In the covenant of grace, founded in the per- son and on the mediationof Christy it is otherwise. On OF THE HOLY SPIRIT whomsoever the Spirit of God is bestowed, for the re- novation of the image of God in him, he abides with him for ever. But in all men from first to last, all good- ness, righteousness, and truth, are the fruits of the Spi- rìt, Ephes. v. 9. Sect. 14. The worksof God being thus finished, and the whole frame of nature set upon its wheels, it is not deserted by the Spirit of God. For as the preservation, continuance, and acting of all things in the universe, according to their especial nature and mutual application of one unto another, are all from the powerful and effi. cacious influences of divine providence; so there are par- ticular operations of the Holy Spirit in and about all things, whether merely natural and animal, or also ra- tional and moral. An instance in each kind may suffice. For the first, (as we have shewed) the propagation of the succeeding generations of creatures, and the annual renovation of the face of the earth, are ascribed unto him, Psal. civ. 30. For, as we would own the due and just powers and operations of secondcauses, so we abhor that Atheism which asoribes unto them an original and independent efficacy and causality, without a previous acting in, by, and upon them, of the power of God. And this is here ascribed unto the Spirit, whom God sendeth forth unto that end and purpose. As to ration- al and moral actions, such as the great affairs of the world do consist in, and are disposed of by, he bath in them also a peculiar efficiency. Thus those great vir- tues of wisdom, courage, and fortitude, which have been used for the producingof great effects in the world, are of his especial operation. So when God stirred up men to rule and govern his people of old, to fight against, and to subdue their enemies, it is said the Spirit of God came upon them, Judg. iii. 10. r, The Spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel, and he judged Israel, and went out to war." The Spirit of God endued him with wisdom for government, and with courage and skill in conduct for war. So Judg. vi. 34. And although instances hereofare given us principally among the -pew ple of God, yet wherever men in the world have been raised up to do great and wonderful things, whereby God executeth his judgments, fulfilleth any of his pro- mises or his threatnings, even they also have received of the especial gifts and assistancesof the Holy Spiritof God. For this reason is Cyrus expressly called God's anointed, Isa, xlv. 1. Cyrus had, by God's designation,
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