N&VV G9 VENA NT. preached i' Thatis, faith the Apofl:le,1fi fhould onely deliver to you theCommandemems,and the Precepts, and the Rules, by which you ought to walke, I might preach long enough to you, but you iliould never hlve ability to keepe any of thefe; Saith he, you may obferue thofe that preach the Law to yoJ:l, did you receive the Spirit then? No,burwhen I preached to you the promifes of pardon and forgiveneife, then you receive the Spirit, it was conveyed into your hearts. . . L ! .I ! · Now I take it there is a double meaning of A doubletn· ' ' fufion of the ' this infulion oftheSpirit here: In the time of Spirit. the Apofl:Ies, there was a miraculous infufion and giving ofthe Holy Gho!l:, thatw~en they preached cothem,as Peter to C~rnelius,and Paut to other, and layd their hands on them, the Holy Ghoft fdl on them; That is,they were fil– led prefendy with an immediate ,infufion of knowledge, they had, fome thegift of tongues, fome extraordinary manifefration of the Spi– rit;faith the ApoCUe,when this was done, was it done by the ofpreaching the Law~ Was it not done bythe"preaching of Chrift)~nd by offering to you the pardon and forgiven eife of finnes through him?Therefore you fee how he exprdfeth it; Hetherefore that minifireth the Spirit to you, ·and workes mir?cks among you, how cloth he worke thefe miracles ? He doth them not by the workes of the Law, but by the hearing ot Faith preached; that is, by our preaching ofit,andyour hearing it: C c 3 Now i j
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