SERM. XLIV.] AND THE USE OF IT. -2Eì divine work, in the soul. What he begun in faith, he carries on in love : What he begun in repentance, he carries on by daily mortification of sin. " Faith and love are the fruits of the Spirit ;" Gal. v. Q2. And it is " by the Spirit, that we must mortify the deeds of the body, if we would live ;" Rom. viii. 13. He sanctifies us more and more, and draws our hearts still nearer to God. It is " by the sanctification of the Spirit, and by the belief of the truth, that we are brought to partake of salvation ;" 2 ZNess. ii. 13: He restores us when we wander, and brings us back, when we have gone astray : He fits us for converse with God, and awakens every grace, which he has wrought in us, into proper and sea- sonable exercise. He assists the soul, in all its devout addresses to God, as aspirit of prayer and supplication. By him we draw near to the Father. He gives us to taste the pleasure of religion, and prepares us daily for the full enjoyment of God. He dwells in us, as a living spring of holiness, and keeps alive his own work in our hearts, through all the oppositions of indwelling sin, through all thevarious temptations we meet with, from Satan, and from this present world, till we are brought safe to the heavenly kingdom. He gives all the final strokes of sanctifica- tion, which may be needful atour death, freeing us from every remaining sin, and completing his own work of ho- liness in us. Then our blessed Mediator, Christ Jesus, at the right -hand of God, " presents us, without spot or blemish, before the presence of his own and his Father's glory," and gives us that sensible enjoyment of those everlasting pleasures, he bath prepared for us, in that holy and happy world. Now the duties that arise, from this account of the operations of the Holy Spirit, are as follow : In our approaches to God, in order to obtain peace and favour with him, we must pray, and wait, and hope for the divine influences of this blessed Spirit, to convince us of sin, tomake us sincerely willing to be reconciled th God, togive us a clear and affecting sight of Christ, in all the power and gloryof his mediatoriat ofi.ee, and to en- able us to apply ourselves to Christ, by a living faith, that we may, by him, be brought into the favour of God: W must pray earnestly to the God of all grace. that;-
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