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CAP.V17
x
,=9.
¡oh.
t.,t
i.
Explained and vindicated.
I
8o thefe
allo are all
of
them founded
-in
the former,
and depend
wholly
upon
them,
and are refolved into
them.
All
Promises
then whatever
made to
the
Church,
the
Body
of
Chrift ,
doe not
refpeCt
it primarily
,
as
a
Corporation,
which
is
the
fecond
notion of it,
but
as
confining
of
thofe particular
Believers;
much
leffe
as a
Chimericall
univerfall
,
having
a
fubfinence
in
and
by
it
felfe,
abnra&ed
from
its
particulars.
This
evafion
then,
notwithftanding
this
Promife
of
our
Saviour,
doth
ftill
continue
to
preffe
its
Teftirnony concerning the per.
petuall
refidence
of
this Holy Spirit with
Believers.
4.28.
T
hefcope
of
the
place
inforces
that
exception
of
thefe words,
which
we
in-
lift
upon.
Our
Bleffed
saviour
obferving
the trouble and
dìfconfolation of
his followers,
upon the
apprehenfion
of
his
departure
from
tlem,ftirres
them
up
to
a
better
hope and
confidence
by
many Gracious
Promifes, and
ingage-
ments,
of
what would
and
should
be
the
Iffue
of
his
being taken away.v. i.
He
bids them
to
free
their
hearts
from
trouble,
and
in
the
next words,
tells
them,
that
the
way whereby it
was
to be
done,
was
by
aering
Faith
on
the
Promifes
of
his
Father,
and thofe which in
his
Fathers name, he
had made,
and
was
to
make
unto them.
Of
thefe he mentions many
in
the
following
verfes,
whereoftheFountaine,
Head, and Spring,
is
that
of
giving them
the
Comforter,
not
to
abide with them for
a feafon,
as
he
had done,with
his
bo-
dily prefence,
but
to
continue with them
as
a
Comforter,
(and
confequent-
ly,
to
the
difcharging
of
his
whole difpenfation
towards
Believers
)
for
ever.
He
fpeakes
to
them
as
Believers, as difconfolate deje&ed Believrs,qutckning,
their
Faith by Exhortations,
and
gives
them this Promife,
as
a
folid
Founda-
tion
of
peace
and
compofedneffe
of
Sprit,
which he
exhorted
them unto.
And
ifour
Saviour
intendeth
any
thing,
but
what the words impost viz.
that
he
will give
his
Holy Spirit,
as a
Comforter
,
to
abide with them
for
ever,
the
Promife bath not the
lean
futablenef e
to
relieve them
in
their
diftreffe,
nor
to
accomplifh
the
end for which
it
was
given
them.
But
againn
this it
is
excepted
Cap.
i
i.
Seal.
13.
Pag.233
i.
Evident
it
is,
that
our Saviour
cloth
not
in this
place
oppafe
the abiding
or
remaining
of
the
Holy
Ghoyl, to
his
owne
departure front
the hearts
or
foules
of
men, into
which
he
is
framed
or
cage;
but
to
his departure out
of
the
world,
by
death,
which
was now
at
hand.
Anf.
s.
This
is
a
weighty
obfervation: yet withall it
is
evident, that
he
oppofeth
the
abiding
of
the Spirit
with
them
as
a
Comforter,
to
his
owne bo-
dily prefence with them for
that
end.His
was for
a
feafon,the
other
to
endure
for ever.
And I delire
to
know,how
our
Saviour
Chrift
comes,
or
enters
into
the
foules
or
hearts
of
men,
but by
his
Spirit: and how thefe things
cone
here
to
be
dininguifbed.
But
2.
He
faies
By
the
abiding
of
the
Comforter
with
them
for
ever,
he
cloth
not
meane his
perpetual!
abode
in their
hearts,
or
the hearts
of
any
particular
man, but
his
confiant
abidingin the
world,
in,
and with
the
Gofpell,
and
the Children
there-
.
;
of,
in
refpefl
ofwhich,
he
faith
ofhimfelfe
elfmhere,
i
amwith
you
alwaies
even
to
the
end
ofthe
world:
as
if
hefhould have
faid,
This
the
purpofe
of
my
Father,
in
fending
me
into
the
world, requiers,
that
IJbould
make
no
long
fray in it,
I
am
now upon my
return,
but
when
I
cometo
my
Father,
I
will
intercede
for
you, and
be
will
fend
you
another
Comforter,
upon
better termer,
for
flaying
and
continu-
ing
with
you, then thofe
on
which
I
came:
for
he
(ball
be.
fent,
not
to
be
taken
out
of
the world
by
death, but
to
make his
refidence
with, and
among you my friendo
andfaithful!
ones
for
ever;
Now
from
fuch
an abiding
of
the
HolyGhofl
with
them,
as
this,cannot
be
inferd
his perpetual!
abiding with any
one
perfon or Believer,
de
terminately,
much
leffe
with
every
one.
4. 29.
Anf.
r. It
was
evident before,
that
this Promife
was
made
to
the
Dif-
ciples.
....
1111