A DISCOURSE ON THE HOLY SPIRIT, grees before- mentioned. It is, therefore, the duty of all to serve him with fear and trembling on this ac- count. And, Secondly, It is so, to take heed ofthe very entrances of the course described. Have there been such evils in any of us, as wherein it is evident that the Spirit is grie- ved? As we love our souls, we are to take care that we do not vex him by a continuance in them. And if we do not diligently and speedily recover ourselves from the first, the second will ensue. Hath he been grieved by our negligence in, or of duties, by our indulgence unto any lust, by compliance with, or conformity to the worldt let not our continuance in so doing, make it his vexation. Remember, that whilst he is but grieved, be continues to supply us with all due means for our heal- ing and recovery. He will do so also when he is yet vexed. But he will do it with sack a mixture of anger and displeasure, as shall make us know, that what we have done, is an evil thing and a bitter. But have any proceeded further, and continued long thus to vex him, and have refused his instructions, when accompanied, it may be, with sore afflictions, or inward distresses that 35 have been evident tokens of his displeasure? Let such souls rouse up themselves to lay hold on him; for he is ready to depart, it may be, for ever. And, Thirdly, We may do well to consider much the miser- able condition of those who are thus utterly forsaken by him. When we see a man who path lived in aplen- tiful and flourishing condition, brought to extreme pe- nury and want, seekinghis bread in rags from door to door, the spectacle is sad, although weknow, hebrought this misery on himself by profuseness or debauchery of life. But how sad is it to think of a man, whom it may be, we knew to have had a great light and conviction, to have made an amiable profession, to have been adorn- ed with sundry useful spiritual gifts, and had in estima- tion on this account, now to be despoiled of all his or- naments, to have lost light, and life, and gifts, and pro- fession, and to lie as a poor withered branch on the dunghill of the world. And the sadness hereof will be increased, when we shall consider, not only that the Spi- rit of God is departed from him, but also is become his enemy, and fights against him, whereby he is devoted unto irrecoverable ruin. SECOND AND LAST DISCOURSE ON THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND SPIRITUAL GIFTS. CHAP. I. ' SPIRITUAL GIFTS, THEIR NAMES AND SIGNIFICATION. ±wt THE second part of the dispensation of the Spit, in order unto the perfecting of the new creation, or the edificatiois of the church, consists in his communication of spiritual gifts unto the members of it, according as their places and stations therein do require. By his work of saving grace (which in other discourses wehave given a large account of) he makes all the elect living stones, and by his communication of spiritual gifts he fashions and builds those stones into a temple for the living God todwell in. He spiritually unites them into one mystical body under the Lord Christ, as an headof influence, by faith and love; and he unites them intoan organical body under the Lord Christ, as an head of rule, by gifts and spiritual abilities. Their nature is made one and the same by grace; their use is various by gifts. Every one is a part of the body of Christ, of thé essence of it by the same quickening, animating Spirit of grace; but one is an eye, another an hand, another a foot in the body, by virtue of peculiar gifts. For unto every one ofus isgiven grace according to the measureofthegift ofChrist, Eph. iv. 7. 2. These gifts are not saving sanctifyinggraces; those
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