in drawingpoor(inners unto hic son, brings the fpirits ofmen unto Jefus Chrift. Certainly there is nothing but the Jame eternal fpirit that was in Jefus Chrift : it is the fame immortal and immediate hand and power of God that loth ever raif2 up the foule of man, and bring it unto Chrift, and nothing but that fpirit only : and therefore from hence is that of the Apoftle, that no man can fo much as fay that Jefus is theLord,but by the holy G.hofl: and except a man be born of water and the fpirit, he cannot en- ter into the Kingdome ofGod : for tis all one and tis wrought by one and)hefàrne Almighty Spirit , to fay that Jefus is the Lori y thefpirit, and to be born of the fpirit : for man to fay &confefs fo ten thoufand times, ifhe do not feel him to be the Lordand the Almighty in him, all his confefiions ira words are nothing;And by onefpirit (faith the Text)ye are all baptized into one body, even the whole body, and they all to - f}ifie one-and the fame thing, that there is but onefpirit, one Lord,. one Faith, one Baptifine, one God and Father of all, Eph. 4. 4. and they have all been made to drink into one fpirit, which is that One, Boundlefs, Infinite and,Eternal Spirit of the Father , that like the wind , bloweth where it li/letb , and we may hear the found,and tafle the operation of it in us, but knew not whence it cometh, nor when it will work, but cometh andgoeth when it pleafeth, and not in the leaft when men will: they have no commandofthatfree andgood fpirit. It is onely this onefpirit that makes the foul one with Jefus Chrift ; therefore the Apoftle witneffes, zf Chrift be in you, he that railed up Jefusfrom the dead, 'hailalfo quickenyour mor- tal bodies by thatfpirit that dwelleth inyou : this is that fpirit that fearches all things, and tries all things, even the hidden things ofGod : this is that livingfpirit that blows upon the dry bones : the fpirit ofthe four winds that blows upon the deadand rottenbones : and the blowing ofthis fpirit brings finer; to finely, bone to bone, and this makes them live and 'land up befoy-e him; and there is nothing elfe but this fpirit that Both it, there is nothing can be conjoined with it. However men may fay, and keep a great deal of bulling about the power of man, that fo it may not be Paid there was any to help him : yeti fay it is the fpirit of God alone that I Cor. 12. ; Joh. 3.5. i Cor. I2. 13. EFh 4.4. I Cor,2. Io. Ezek. 37. 4.
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