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Of
the
Indwelling
of
the
Holy
Spirit.
CAP.
Vlil.
§:
{,
the
fame he
molt diílin
&]y
afferts
Gal.
4.6.
God
bath
fent
forth
the
fpirit
of
his
r
91
Sonne, into our
hearts,crying
Abba
Father.
The
diffint
Oeconomy
of
the Fa-
ther,
Sonn;
and Spirit,
in
the
work
of
Adoption
, is
clearly chfcovered. He
is
fent,
fent
of
God, that
is, the Father.
That
name
is Perfonally
to be appro-
priated,
when
it
is
diflinguifhed
(
as
here
)
from Sonne, and
Spirit;
That
is
the
Fathers work,
that
work ofhis
Love, he
fends
him. He hath fent him,
as
the fpirit
of
his
Bonne,
procured by
him
for us,
promifed
by
him
to us ,
pro-
ceeding fromhim,'as
to
his perfonall
fubf
feence,
and fent
by him,
as
to
his
of
fice
of
Adoption
and Confolation. Then whether the
Father
hath
fent
the
fpi-
rit
ofhis
Sonne,
where he
is
to
abide and make
his
refidence
is
expreffed
;
it
is
into
ourHearts
faith
the
Apoffle:
there
he dwells and abides. And laftly,
what
there
he
doth
is
allo manifefted:
fie
fetts
them
on
worke
in
whom he
is,
gives
them
priviledges
for
it,
Ability
to
it,
Incouragement in
it
,
canting them
to cry
Abba
Fathers
Once, and
ágaine,
to
Timothy,
Both
the
fame Apoflle affert
the
fame
truth,
r
Epifl.3.14.thegood thing committed
unto thee,
keep by
the
Holy
spi-
rit,which
dwelleth
in
us.
The
Lord knowing
how much
ofour
Life
and
Con
-
folation depends on this
Truth,
redoubles
his
Teflimony
of
it,
that
wee
might
receive it: even wee,
who
are dull
and
flow
of
heart
to believe
the things
that
are
written.
3.
Whereas
Come
may
fay,
it
cannot be
cdenyed,
but
that
the spirit
drools
y,
in
Believers,
but
yet this
is
not
perfonally,
but
only by
his
Grace, though I
might
reply,
that
this indeed, and
upon the matter,
is
not
to
diflinguifh,but
to
deny, what
is
pofatively affirmed.
To
fay
the
spirit
dwells
in us,
but not
the
Perlon
of
the
Spirit,
is
not
to
diflinguifh,
de
modo,but
to
deny
the thing
it
félfe;
To
fay,
the
Graces indeed
of
the
Spirit are
in
us;
(not
dwell in us, for
an Accident
is
not
properly
Paid
to
dwell in
its
fubje&)
but the
Spirit
it
felfe
doth
not
dwell
in us,
is
exprefsly
to
call downe
what the word
Pets
up.
Iffuch
diffin&ions
ought to be
efforce, to
evade
fo
many pofitive and plaine
Texts
of
Scripture,
as
havebeen produced; it
may well
bequeflioned, whether any
Truth
be capable
of
proofe from Scripture
or
no.Yet I
fay
farther, to obviate
filch
Obje
&ions,
and
to prevent
all
quarrellings for the future,
the
Scripture
it
felfe,as
to
this bufineflè
ofthe
Spirits indwelling, plainely
diftinguifheth
be-
tween the Spirit
it
felfe
and
his
Graces: He is(I fay)diftinguifhed from them,
and that
in
refpelt to
his
indwelling.
Horn.
y.
g.
The Love
of
God is
fhed abroad
in
our
hearts ,
by
the
Holy
GhoI/,that
is
given
to
to:
The
Holy Ghofl
is
given
to
us,to
dwell
in us, as
hath
been
abundantly declared, and
fhall
yet
farther be
demonftrated. Here
He
is
mentioned
together'
with the
Love
of
God,
and
hisfhedding
thereof
abroad
in
our
Hearts;that
is,with hisGraces:
&
is
as cleave-
ly diftinguifhed
and
differenced from
them,
as Caufe
and
effe&
Take the
Love
of
God,in
either fence,that
is
controverted about
this place, for
out
Love
to
God
,
or
a
fence
of
his
Love
to
us,
and it
is
an eminent Grace
of
the
Holy¡
Spirit.
If
then by the Holy Ghoft given-unto
us
yee underftand
only
the
Grace
of
the Holy Ghofl,
He
being laid
to
be
given
,
becaafe that
is
given,
then this
muff
be
the
fence
of
the
place,
The
Grace
of
the
Holy Gho
fl
is
filed
abroad
in
our
Hearts,
by
the
Grace
oft
he
Holy Gho
fl,that
is
given'
to us.
Farther,
if
by the Holy
Ghoff,
be meant only
his
Grace,
I require what
Grate
it
is, here by
the
expreffion
intended
? Is
it
the
fame with
that es
-
preffed,
the
Love
of
God
?
This
were
to
confound the
efficient
caufe
with
its.
effeet.
Is
it
any
other Grace,that doth produce the great worke mentioned?
Let
us
know what
that
Grace
is,
that
haththis
power
&
energie in
its
hand,
of
fhedding
abroad the
Love
of
God:
in
our
Hearts.
So Rom..
8
r
s.
He
(hall
quickea
your mortali
bodyes
by
the
Spirit, that
dwelleth in
you.
This
quickning
ofour
mortali
bodies
is generally
confeffed
to
be
(and
the
fcope
of
the
place
infor-
ceth