ChOp,7. acco rding to St M'A r r H S vv. 269 down, and the {lanes aft one fromanother : So finne that dwel- leth in us, hach its roots fo inwrapped and intertwined in our na- tures, thatit can never be utterly extirpated ; but pride will bud, Ezck,7, to, and thefruits of the flefhWill be manifJ , though webe daily lop- GAI. y., 9. ping off the branches, and labouring alfo at the root. Sinne is an inmate,that will not out, doe what wecan, till the houle fall upon the headof it ; an hereditary diCeafe, and that, which is bred in the bone, will never out of thef?efh ; a peftilent Hydra, fomewhat a- kin to thofe beaks in Daniel, that had their dominien tabu a- way, yet were their lives prolonged for a time, and a feafon, Dan. .iz. How much morewill your father which is in Heavengivegood things] Give the holySpirit faithS. Lake:: for Nihil bonunt, r.uk r t. xi: finefrmmo bono, faith S. Auffin when God gives his Spirir,. he gives all good things, and that which is more then all betides. For it is aSpirit of judgement andofburning, of graceand ofde- Ira.4.4 precation, of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord, of ffrength Zech. t z, ro. and of might, enabling both to refill evil offinne, and to endure Ita.tg,z._. evil of forrow. And for good things, temporali, to trample on them ; fpirituall, to reachafter them. It is a freefpirit, felting a a Cor3.17. man at liberty from the tyranny of fin,and terrour ofwrath ; and oyling hisjoints, that he may be at-five andabundant in the Lords worke. This holy fpirit is fignifled by thofe two golden pipes, Zech.4. through which the twoOlive-branches, the ordir.a,rces, empty out of themfelves thegoldenoyles of all precious graces in- to the candle-flick, the Church. And how-great a favour it is to have the holy Spirit our inhabitant : See %oel z. where, after God had promifed the former and latter rain, floores full of wheat, and fats full ofwineand oyl, aconfluence ofall outward comforts and contentments ; he adds this as more then all the reff, l will alfa Ioel t.z;;:s; pour out my. iritup e; allflefh. He willpourour,not dropdown Pial p,. only fparingly and pinchingly as Tome penny- father, but pour oppoxrrur car out,likea liberali houfholder, as it were, by pailes or bucket-fulls. And what? my ifiirit, that noble frsiris, as Davidcalleth it, that r .zintr comforter, countellour, conduit into the landof the living. And ca . upon whom ? upon all e : fpirit upon flefh r fobrave a thingup- agis on fobafea fubje& Next to the love of Chrift in dwelling inour taen73em.rut nature, we may well wonder at the loveof the holy Ghat that dKerur excel- will dwell in our defiled fouls; that this fjirir -o glory and of tend .j,irtrtss I g / f IkL YL21/i?C.,. God will.dain to reíf upen us a$ the, cloth/ did u} on the Taber- B. za
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=