ab WAY AND MANNER OF THE DIVINE WAY AND MANNER OF THE DIVINE DISPENSATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. CHAP. V. (1.)-Dispensationof the Spiritto be learnedfrom the scripture only; general adjuncts thereof.. -(2.) Theadmi- nistration ofthe Spirit and his own application ofhimselfto his workhow expressed.-(3.) The Spirit how and in what sense given and received. -(4.) What is included in the giving of the Spirit.-(5.) What in receiving ofhint.-(6, 7.) Privilege and advantage in receiving the Spirit.-(8.) HowGod is said to send the Spirit; what is included in sending. -(9.) How God ministers the Spirit.-(10.) How God is said toput his Spirit on us; what is included in that expression.-(11.) The Spirit how poured out.-(12, 13.) What is includedand intended herein.-(14.) The ways of theSpirit's application of himself untohis work.-(15.) Hisproceeding from Father andSon explained.-(16.) How he cometh unto us.-(17.) Hisfallingon men.-(18.) His resting. -(12.) How and in what sense he is said to departfront anyperson.---(20.) Ofthe divisions oftheHoly Ghost, Heb. ii. 3.-(21.) Expositionofthem vindicated, EFORE we treat of the especial operations, works, and effects of the Holy Ghost in, and on the new crea- tion, the order of things requires that we should first speak somewhat of the general nature of God'sdispen- sation of him, and of his own applications of himself unto his actings and workings in this matter. For this is the foundation of all that he doth, and this for our edificationwe are instructed in by the scriptures. Unto them in this whole discourse we most diligently attend; for we are exercised in such a subject, as wherein we have no rule nor guide, nor arty thing to giae us assist- ance, but pure revelation. And what I have to offer concerning these things, consists upon the matter solely in the explication of those places of scripturewherein they are revealed. We must therefore consider (1.) what we are taught on the part of God the Father, with respect unto the Holy Spirit, and his work; and (2.) what relates immediately unto himself. Sect. 2.-First; God's disposal of the Spirit unto his . work, is five ways expressed in the scripture. For he is said. (l.) To give or bestow him; (2.) To send him; (3.) To administer him; (4:) To pour him out; (5.) To put him on us. And his own application of himself unto his work is likewise five ways expressed. For he is said (1.) Toproceed, (2.) To come, or come upon; (3.) To fall on men, (4.J To rest; and (5.) To depart. These things containing the general manner of his administration and dispensation, most befirst spoken unto. Sect. 3.-First; He is said to be given of God; that is, of God the Father, who is said to give him in an es- pecial manner. Luke xi. 13. s' Your heavenly Father " will give the Holy Spirit tothem that ask him." John iii. 34. " He bath given his Spirit unto us," 1 John iii. 24. John xiv. 16. " The Father shall giveyou another " Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost," verse26. And in answer unto this act of God, those on whom he is bestowed, are said to receive him, John vii. 39. " This " he spakeof the Spirit, which they that believe on him " should receive," 1 Cor. ii. 12. " We have received " the Spirit which is of God," 2 Cor. xi. 4. " If you " have received another spiritwhich you had not receiv- " ed;" where the receiving of the Spirit is made a mat- ter common unto all believers. So Gal. iii. 2. Acts viii. 15, 19. John xiv. 17. chap. xx. 22. For thesetwo, giving and receiving are related; the one supposing the other. And this expression of the dispensation of the Holy Ghost is irreconcileable unto the opinion before rejected; namely, that he is nothing but a transient ac- cident, or an occasional emanation of the power of God. For how, or in what sense, can an act of the power of God be given by him, or be received by us? It can in- deed, in no sense, be either the object of God's giving or of our receiving, especially as this is explained in those other expressions of the same thingbefore laid
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