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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
Z
Ness. 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 a
spirit
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
the
various
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,
to
make
us
sincerely willing to
be
reconciled
th
God,
to
give
us a
clear and
affecting sight
of
Christ,
in
all
the power
and glory
of
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;-