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The
Holy Spirit
procured for
us
by
Chri[I-
CAP.VIl.4:zt,
manner
Heb.9. 15.
For
this
caufe
he is
the mediator
of
the
New
Teflament,that
173
by meanes
of
death,they which are called
might
receive
the Promifeof
Eternal!
In-
heritance.
By
his
death, they for
whom he
dyed, and
who
thereupon are
called,
being
delivered from their
finnes,which
were againft
the Covenant
of
De
t
:27,
29.
workes,
receive
the Promife ,
or
pledge
of
an
Eternall Inheritance.
What
Ga1.3;z
2.
this
great Promife here intended
is,
and wherein
it doth
confifl,
the Holy
1om.3'21
Ghofl declares,
Aas
2.23.
The
Promife,
which Jefus Chrift received
of
the
Father upon
his
exaltation,
was
that ofthe
Holy Ghofl, having purchafed
and procured the bellowing
of
him
by
his
Death:
upon
his
Exaltation, the
difpenfation thereof,
is
committed
to
him,as
being
part
of
the Compa
&e
and
Covenant,which
was
between
his
Father and
himfelfe,
The
grand bottome
of
his
fatisfathon &
merit.This
is
the great
Originali radical! Promife
of
that
Eternal! Inheritance.
By
the
Promifed
Spirit
are wee
begotten
a
new,
into
a
Rom.s.
,t.
hope
thereof, made meet for
it,
and
fealed up
unto it;
Yea
do but
looke
cot.I.12.
upon
the Spirit
as
promifed, and yee
may
conclude
him
purchafed:
for
all
the
EpheG4.30.
Promifes
of
Gadare yea
and
amen
in jefus
chrifl,
2
Cor.
T.
20.
They
all
have
their
Confirmation,Eflablifhment
and
Accomplifhment in, by,
and
for Jefus
Chrift-And
if
it be
granted
that
any
defigned appointed Mercy
whatever
that
in
Chrifl,the Lord
bleffeth us
withall, be procured for
us
by him
in
the
way
of
tnerit,(being given
freely
to
us,
through him,
but
reckoned
to
him
of
debt)
it
will
eafily
be
manifefled,
that
the
faine
is
the condition
of
every Mercy
whatever
promifed unto
us,
and given
us , upon his
Mediatory
interpofi-
tion.
2.
It
appears from
that
peculiar promife,
that
Chrift makes
of
fending
his
§:
ï
t.
Holy
Spirit
unto
his
owner He tels them
indeed,
once ,
and
againe
,
that
the
Father
will fend him:
As
he
comes
from
that
originali and Fountaine Love,
ioha4.
t6i
from
which alfo himfelfe was fent. But withal!,
he
affures us,
that
he himfelfe
26.
will
fend
him.
ioh,i
S.
26. When
the
Comforter is come, whom
i
will
fend
onto
you
from
the
Father,
even
the
Spirit
of
truth.
It
is
true
!
that
he
is
promifed
here only
as
a
Comforter,
for
the
performance
of
that part
of
his Office.
But
ioha
6.
.
look upon what account he
is
fent
for
any one
A&,
or Worke
of.
Grace ,
on
that
he
is
fent
for
all.
I will
fend him,
then
faith Chrift
:
and
that
as.
a
fruit
of
his
death,
as
the procurement
of
his
Mediation; for
that
alone
he
promifeth
to
bellow on
his. And in
particular he
tells
us,
that
he
receives
the
fpirit from
the
Father for
us
upon
his
Interceflion, wherein
, as
hath been elfewhere de-
monfirated, he
askes
no more nor
leffe,
then what by
his
death
is
obtained.
sat
a
Etetk
Iohn
1
16
1
I
willpray the Father,
and
he
gall
give
you another Comforter,
ÏemfAnBxN
4
27
y
.11
8
y
f
that
he may
abide
with
you
for
ever,
even
the
fpirit
ofTruth,
whom
the Worldcan,
f
not receive;
he
tells
us y. 53.
that
whatfoever we
aske,
he
will doe
it
:
But
withall, in
thefe verfes,how
he
will
doe
it:
even by
interceding with the Fa-
ther
for
it,
as a
fruit
of
his
Bloodihedding, and
the Pròmife made to him,
up-
on
his
undertaking to
Glorify his
Fathers name,in
the great worke ofRedemp^
ioti.i.4.6=
tion. And therefore he informes
us
,
that
when
the
Corn
forter,whom he
pro-
cureth for
us
,
fhall
come,
he fhall
Glorify him, and
fhall
receive
of
his,
and
thew
it
unto
us,(ioh.16.
L1..)farther
manifefl
his
Glory,in'
his
bringing nothing
with
him,
but
what
is
his,
or
of
his
procurement;
fo
alto
inftruBeing
us
clearly
and plentifully,
to
aske
in
his
name,
that
is,for
his
fake
,
which
to
doe plainly
and
openly,
is
the great
priviledge
of
the New
Teflament;(for
fo
he tells
his
Difciples
ioh.16.24.
hitherto have
you
asked
nothing in
my
name, who yet
were
Believers,
and had made many
addreffes
unto God
in
and
through him;
but
darkely,
as
they did under
the Old Teftament,
when
they begged
mer-
cyfor
his
fake
Dan.
9.57.
But
to
plead with
the Father
,
clearly upon
the ae-
count
of
the
Mediation and
Purcha
e
of
Chrift)
That (I
fay)
is
the priviledge
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