each PER s o N. dytinaly, , 349 him, and be procured by him, That be in all things -vnight have the pre- beminence, Col. i. 19. according to the compacd and agreement made whit. him, Ifà. lid. i 2. They are 911 the purchafe of h-is blood, and therefor the. Spirit alb, .as pronged in that covenant, r ('or. i. 20. Now the whole fruit and purchafe of his death, is made out from the father up- on his intercefhon. This, ¡oh. xiv. r6, 17, 18. he profnifeth his dif- riples, that he will pnrfue the work which he bath in hand in their behalf, and intercede with the father for the Spirit, as a ftuit of his purchafe. Therefore he tells them, that he will not pray the father for his love unto them, becaufe the eternal love of the father, is not the frttit, but the fountain of his purchafe, but the Spirit that is a fruit, that,_ faid he, I will pray the father for, der. And what Chrift asketh the: father as mediator, to bellow on us, that is art of his purchafe (a), being promifed unto him,upon his undertaking to do the will of God. And this is the fitti thing that is to he conlidered in the Lord Jefus, as to the communication of the Spirit of fanttitìcation and purification ; the;firft thing to be conittdercd in this our communion with him. He intercedes with his father, that, he may be bellowed on us, as a fruit of his death and bloodfhed-in our behalf. "Phis is the relation of the Spirit of holinefs, as bellowed on us, unto the mediation of Chrift. He is the great (b) foundation of the covenant of grace ; being himfelf. everlaflingly defiinated, and freely given to make a purchafe of all the good things thereof. Receiving according to presnifc the Holy Ghoft, Alls iì. 33. he flteds him abroad on his own. l.lifs faith confiders, fixes on, dwells upon. For, (a.) His prayer being granted, as the father always hears him (e), he aftually fends his Spirit into the hearts of his faints, there to dwell in his ftead, and to do all things for than, and in them, which he himfelf bath to do. "This fecondly is the Lord Chrift by faith to be eyed in, and that not only in refpe& of ,the fitti enduing of our hearts with his Holy Spirit, hut allo of the continual fupplies of it, drawing forth, and exciting more effectual operations and aelings of that indwelling Spirit (d). Hence, though `oh. xiv. 16. Ise Pays, the father will give them the tom= farter, bccaule the original amid. fovereign difpenfation is in his hand, and it is by bins made out upon the interceffion of Chrifl, yet not being be- llowed immediately on us, but as it wete given into the hand of Chrift for ús, heaflìrms, thatas to actual collation or bellowing, he fends him him- felf, Chap. xv. 26. I will fend the comforter to yeti from the father. He receives him from Isis father, and adually fends him unto his faints. So, Chap. xvi. 7. Icudl fend him, and v. 14, 15. he manifefis how he will fend him, lie will furnifh him with that which is his, to bellow upon them, he (ball take of mine (of that wliifih is properly and peculiarly fo, mine as mediator, the fruit of my life and death unto holinefs) and give it unto you. But of rhefe things more afterwards. This then is the fe- coed thing that the Lord Chrift doth, andwhich is to be eyed in him, he fends his Holy Spirit into our hearts (e), which is the efficient caufe of all holinefs and fanftification, quickning, enlightning, purifying the fouls of his faints. How our union with him, with all the benefits thereon de- pending, floweth from this his communication of the Spirit unto us, tò abide with us, and to dwell in us, I have at large elfewhere declared (f), (a) res. ii. s. afa. liii. iz. Pfal., xl. a, 9, rq rt (i) Gen. iii. is. Ifa. xlií. 6. olio. 6. Dan... 24. (c) Joh.. xi. 42. (d) V;eariam navare Lperam, 1x055. Prova i. 23. (e) Ij,s,. ii. 6. (f) saluta perfeverance, cap. 8. T t r e . where
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