How will He abide in us? 1. Negatively. 1. Not perfonally, as if there were any Confufion of Beings. 2. Not bodily, Coloff. iii. 1. 3. Not formally, as if He was the Form of our Souls, Coloff. ii. 20. 2. Pofitively. 1. Invisibly, yet really, S. Joh. vi. 55, 56. 4. 5. Operatively, Gotoff. iii. 11. Phil. iv. 13. 1. An illuminating, Ephef. i. 17, 18, 19. 2. fanctifying, Ezek. xxxvi. 27. Strive to have Christ abiding in you; for if fo, then all Good abides in you, and you fhall abide with Him. If ye abide in me, and my Words abide in you, ye fhall ask what ye will, and it Jhall be done unto you. 1. Some Omething is here required or fuppofed. I. What required or fuppofed? 1. What is meant by our abiding in Him? This is called partaking of Him, Hebr. iii. 14. and implies in it our . Being in Him, Rom. viii. 1. 2 Cor. v. 17. By Baptifm, Rom. vi. 3. Gal. iii. 27, 28. By Obedience to His Laws, Gal. V. 24. By a true and fincere Faith, Phil. iii. 8, 9. By being Members of His myftical Body, Coloff.i. 18. Ephef. v. 30. 2. Continuing in Him as a Branch in the Vine, S. Job. xv. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Continuing in the Profeffion of His Doctrine, S. Joh. viii. 31. and hearty Endeavours after Perfection, Coloff. i. 28. 1. What is meant by His Words abiding in us? 1. What are we to understand by His 2. How do these Words abide in us? 1. Knowing them, S. Joh. x. 4, 5. 2. Believing 2. Believing them, S. Job. xiii. 19. xvii. 8. viii. 45. S. Matt. xxiv. 35. Rom. X. 10. Hebr. iv. 2. 3. Remembring them, S. Joh. xv. 25. 4. Perfevering in the Obfervance of them, S. Mar. xiii. 13. S. Luk. viii. 15. Rev. ر ii. 26. 3. What is the Effect of their abiding in us? 2. They bring forth Fruit in us, S, Matt. II. Here is fomething promised for the Encouragement of those who thus abide in Chrift, and have His Word abiding in them; a great, a gracious Promife, a Promife full of Joy and Comfort, and which is well worth all the Pains they can be at, to partake of it; namely, that let them ask what they will, they shall be sure to obtain their Requeft. For fo it follows, Te fhall ask what ye will, &c. S. Matt. vii. 7. they fhall be fure not to meet with a Difappointment, for thefe two Reafons; 1. Because they Will only according to GOD's Will, 1 Sam. iii. 18. herein following the Example of their Bleffed Lord and Saviour, S. Matt. xxvi. 39, 42. fubmitting with thofe in Act. xxi. 14. and praying as our Lord directs, S. Matt. vi. 10. 2. Because they ask according to His Will, and fo are fure to be heard upon this Account, 1 S. Joh. v. 14, 15. Particularly they ask, 1. Nothing but what is lawful,S.Matt.vii. 11 avoiding the Folly abovemention'd, Pfal. 1. 21, 22. 2. And only to a good End, S. Jam. iv. 3. X 3 3. They 3. They take a right Method in asking; praying, 1. In Faith, S. Matt. xxi. 22. S. Jam. i. 5, 6, 7. 2. With Fervency and Devotion, Rom. i. 9. I Cor. vi. 20. 3. In Humility, S. Luk. xviii. 9, &c. Pfal. CXxxviii. 6. 4. From a clean and pure Heart, Ifa. i. 11, 16, 17, 18. 1 Tim. ii. 8. 5. With Conftancy and Perfeverance, Luk. xviii. 1. and xi. 8, 9, 10. Ephef. vi. 8. 6. In the Name, and through the Merits and Mediation of our Lord Jefus Christ, S. Joh. xiv. 13, 14. USES. 1. Here is Comfort to thofe that have Chrift's Words abiding in them, that they can want Nothing, but what they may have upon asking it, S. Joh. xv. 16. and xvi. 23, 24. 2. What Care therefore ought every one to take, that these Words of Christ may abide in Him? 1. To be heartily defirous of them, 2 S. Pet. ii. 2. 2. To prepare Himself for the Hearing and Reading them, 2 S. Pet. ii. 1. S. Fam. i. 21. 3. To attend to them feriously, S. Luk. viii. 18. 4. To believe and retain them in Mind, S. Joh. xii. 47, 48. 5. To put them in Practice, S. Jam. i. 22,23, 24, 25. S. Job. xiii. 17. S. JOH. S. JOH. XV. 26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will fend unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, who proceedeth from the Father, He shall teftify of Me. DOCTRINE I. HE Spirit is of itself. Spiritum Dei, id eft, ipfum Deum; Tertull, ad Marc. lib. 2. c. 9. Σὺ ἢ μάνθανε ὅτι ἔν ἔτι τότε τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, αδιαίρετον, πολυδύναμον, πολλὰ τ ̓ ἐνεργεν, αὐτὸ ἢ μὴ μεριζόμιμον, S. Cyril. Hierof. Catech. 4. 13. Eagrán avτῷ τὸ φρικωδέςατον αὐτό πνεύμα]Θ ἐκπεσεῖν, εἰ μὴ σέβοι τὸ πνεῦμα μετὰ πατρὸς καὶ δ, ὡς ὁμούσιον καὶ ὁμότιμον, Greg. Naz Orat. 20. p. 365. Nunc vero cùm dixiffet, aufus es mentiri Spiritui Sanito, cum ille fe putaret hominibus fuiffe mentitum, ipfum Spiritum SanEtum Deum effe monftravit, fubjungens, non hominibus mentitus es, fed Deo, B. Aug. Quaft. fuper Exod. 1. 2. c. 59. S. Mar. xii. 36. Act. xxviii. 25. Rom. XV. 19. 1 Cor. xii. 4, &c. Rom. viii. 26. Ephef. iv. 30. II. DOCTRINE. He is a diftin&t Perfon from the Father and the Son, S. Matt. xxviii. 19. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. 1S. Joh. V.7. 1. He proceedeth from the Father, so says the Text, προ το παλαὸς ἐκπορεύεται. 2. He is fent by the Son, vzw wiμfw. III. DOCTRINE. He proceeds from the Father and the Son, Rom. viii. 9. Gal. iv. 6. Phil. i. 19. S. Joh. xiv. 26. X 4 Kai |