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xii. 3. No man, speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed; and no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

xiv. 15. I will pray with the spirit: I will sing with the spirit.

2 Cor. i. 22. God hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

iii. 3. Ye are the epistle of Christ, written with the Spirit of the living God, in fleshly tables of the heart.

Ver. 17. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Ver. 18. We are changed from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

iv. 13. We, having the Spirit of faith, believe.

v. 5. God hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

xii. 18. Walked we not in the same Spirit? xiii. 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Gal. iii. 2. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? iii. 3. Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Ver. 14. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

iv. 6. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Ver. 29. He that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit. v. 5. We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Ver. 16, 17. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary. Ver. 18. If ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Ver. 23.

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v. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all good. ness, righteousness, and truth.-Ver. 18. Be ¡f — filled with the Spirit.

vi. 17, 18. Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.

Phil. i. 19. I know that this shall turn to my salvation, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

ii. 1. If there be any fellowship of the Spirit, be ye like minded. Ver. 2.

iii. 3. We are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, &c.

Col. i. 8. Epaphras declared to us your love in the Spirit.

1 Thess. i. 6. Ye received the word-with joy of the Holy Ghost.

iv. 8. God hath given unto us his holy Spirit.

v. 19. Quench not the Spirit.

2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth.

1 Tim. iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

2 Tim. i. 7. God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.-Ver. 14. That good thing committed to thee, keep by the Holy Ghost.

Tit. iii. 5. God, according to his mercy saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

Heb. iii. 7, 8. The Holy Ghost saith, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

1 Pet. i. 2. Elect according to the foreknow

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Ver. 25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also ledge of God the Father, through sanctification walk in the Spirit. of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling }{

vi. 8. He that soweth to the Spirit, shall of of the blood of Jesus. the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Eph. i. 13. Ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise.

Ver. 16, 17. Making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

ii. 18. We have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Ver. 22. Ye are built for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

iii. 16. God grant you to be strengthened with might, by his Spirit, in the inner man.

Ver. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.

iv. 6. For this cause was the gospel preached unto them that are dead, that they might live according to God in the Spirit.

Ver. 14. The Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

1 John ii. 20. Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

iii. 24. We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

iv. 2. Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus

Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.-Ver. 6. | Hereby know we the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Ver. 13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

Jude 20. Ye, beloved, building up your selves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.

Rev. xxii. 17. The Spirit and the bride say, Come.

XIV. The Spirit's influence upon governors, magistrates, and warriors. Gen. xli. 38. Pharaoh said, Can we find such a man as this, in whom the Spirit of God is?

Numb. xi. 17. The Lord said unto Moses, I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon the elders, and they shall bear the burthen of the people with thee.

xxvii. 18. The Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thy hand upon him.-Ver. 21. At his word shall they go out, and at his word shall they come in, even all the congregation.

Deut. xxxiv. 9. Joshua was full of the Spirit of wisdom, and the children of Israel hearkened unto him.

Judges iii. 10. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel, and he judged and went out

to war.

Ch. vi. 34. Upon Gideon.-Ch. xi. 29. Upon Jephthah.-Ch. xiii. 25.-xiv. 6. 19.xv. 14. Upon Samson.-1 Sam. x. 6.-xi. 6. Upon Saul.-Ch. xvi. 13. Upon David1 Chron. xii. 18. Upon Amasai.

That the Spirit directed in making the high priest's vestments; see Exod. xxviii. 3.-xxxi. 10. In making the altar, and other things pertaining to God's external worship among the Jews; see Exod. xxxi. from ver. 1 to ver. 12.

XV. The Spirit proceedeth from the Father and the Son; or is given and sent by them. Matt. iii. 11. He [Christ] shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. Mark i. 8. Luke iii. 16. John i. 33. Acts i. 5.

Luke xi. 13. How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit. xxiv. 49. I send the promise of my Father upon you.

John xiv. 26. The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

xv. 26. When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father.

xvi. 7. I will send him unto you.

Ver. 8. He shall reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.-Ver. 13. He will guide you into all truth and shew you things to come.

Acts 1.4. The promise of the Father. Ch.i1.33. v. 32. The Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

Gal. iii. 14. The promise of the Spirit. Eph. i. 13. The Spirit of promise.

iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

See also all those places in the foregoing chapter, where God is represented as promising, sending, and giving the Holy Spirit.

XVI. Sins against the Spirit reproved and punished, from which the contrary duties are easily known. Isa. xxx. 1. Wo to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit.

Ixiii. 10. They rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit, therefore he was turned to be their

enemy.

Zech. vii. 12. They made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his Spirit by the former prophets; therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

Matt. xii. 31, 32. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. (1 John v. 16, 17.) Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him.

Acts v. 3, 4. Peter said, Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? thou hast not lied unto men but unto God.-Ver. 9. How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord!

vii. 51. Ye uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.

Eph.iv.30. Grieve not the holy Spirit of God. 1 Thess. v. 19. Quench not the Spirit. Heb. vi. 4, 5, 6. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance.

x. 28, 29. He that despised Moses's law, died without mercy. Of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace.

Jude 19. Sensual, having not the Spirit. See Simon Magus's sin, Acts viii. 19, 20.

CHAPTER XIII.

OF THE TRINITY.

THE SAME THINGS ATTRIBUTED TO THE FATHER, TO THE SON AND TO THE
HOLY GHOST.

I. THE Father is, Deut. xxxiii. 27. The | eternal God.

Isa. xl. 28. The everlasting God.
The Son is, Col. i. 17. Before all things.
Heb. xiii. 8. The same yesterday, to-day,
and for ever.

Rev. i. 8. The beginning and the ending.-
Ver. 17. The first and the last.

The Spirit is, Heb. ix. 14. The eternal Spirit.

II. The Father is omnipresent. Jer. xxiii. 24. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

Ps. cxxxix. 7. Whither shall I flee from

thy presence?

Dan. ii. 20. Wisdom and might are his. Rev. vii. 12. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom be unto our God.

The Son's wisdom. Col. ii. 3. In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Rev. v. 12. Worthy is the Lamb to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, &c.

The Spirit's wisdom. Isa. xi. 2. He is the Spirit of wisdom.

Acts vi. 3. Full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom.

Eph. i. 17. The Spirit of wisdom and revelation.

V. The power of God. Ps. lxii. 11. Power

The Son. John iii. 13. The Son of man, belongeth unto God. which is in heaven.

Eph. i. 23. He filleth all in all.

The Spirit. Ps. cxxxix. 7. Whither shall

I go from thy Spirit?

III. God's knowledge. 1 Sam. ii. 3. The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Acts xv. 18. Known unto God are all his works.

1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men.

Jer. xi. 20. O Lord of hosts, that triest the reins.

Matt. vi. 13. Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

Christ's power. Isa. ix. 6. His name is, The mighty God.

Matt. xxviii. 18. All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

1 Cor. i. 24. Christ, the power of God. See The power of Christ.

The Spirit's power. Rom. xv. 13. Abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Ver. 19. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God.

VI. Goodness of God. 1 Chron. xvi. 34.

Matt. xi. 27. No man knoweth the Son but The Lord is good. the Father.

The Son's knowledge. Matt. xi. 27. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.

John ii. 24. He knew all men-he knew what was in man. Ver. 25.

Acts i. 24. They prayed and said, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men. Rev. ii. 23. Lam he which searcheth the reins and hearts. Ch. v. 6.

The Spirit's knowledge. 1 Cor. ii. 10. The Spirit searcheth all things; yea the deep things of God.

Ver. 11. The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

IV. The wisdom of God. Job ix. 4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.

Christ. Acts x. 38. He went about doing good.

Spirit. Ps. cxliii. 10. Thy Spirit is good.

VII. Works of God-Creation. Isa. xl. 28. The Creator of the ends of the earth. Gen. i. 27. God created man.

Works of Christ. John i. 3. All things were made by him.

Col. i. 16. By him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth.

Works of the Spirit. Job xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me.

Ps. civ. 30. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.

VIII. God sendeth teachers to his church. Jer. vii. 25. I have sent unto you my servants

the prophets. Ch. xxv. 3, 4.-xxvi. 5.—xxix. 19. xxxv. 14, 15.-xliv. 4.

Matt. ix. 38. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. See Acts ix. 15. 17. Gal. i. 15. Eph. iv. 11, 12. Acts xxii. 14.

Christ sendeth them. Matt. x. 5-8. These twelve Jesus sent forth, saying, Go, preach; heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, &c.

Acts xxvi. 16, 17, 18. He said, I have appeared unto thee, to make thee a minister. I send thee to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, &c. See Ch. xxii. 14. 21. 1 Cor. i. 17. Paul said, Christ sent me to preach the gospel.

2 Cor. v. 20. We are ambassadors for Christ. The Holy Ghost sendeth them. Isa. xlviii. 16. The Lord God and his Spirit hath sent me. Acts xiii. 2. The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.-Ver. 4. They being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia.

xx. 28. Paul said, Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers— -(or bishops, as in the original.)

IX. Teachers receive their knowledge from God. John vi. 45. They shall be all taught of God. Isa. liv. 13. Jer. xxxi. 34.

Phil. iii. 15. God shall reveal this unto you. From Christ. Gal. i. 12. Neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. From the Spirit. Luke ii. 26. It was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost.

John xiv. 26. The Holy Spirit shall teach you all things.

X. God spake by those who were sent. Heb. i. 1. God spake unto the fathers by the prophets.

Christ spake by them. 2 Cor. xiii. 3. Ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me.

The Holy Ghost spake by them. Mark xiii. 11. It is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

XI. God is in his people as his temple. Acts vii. 48. The most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Ch. xvii. 24.

1 Cor. iii. 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God! Ver. 17.

2 Cor. vi. 16. Ye are the temple of the living God: God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them.

The Holy Ghost is in them. John xiv. 17. The spirit of truth that dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Rom. viii. 11. His spirit that dwelleth in you. 1 Cor. vi. 19. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

iii. 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

To them that are sanctified by God the Father. XII. God sanctifieth his people. Jude 1.

sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of Christ sanctifieth. Heb. ii. 11. He that one; wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

sanctified by the Holy Ghost. The Spirit sanctifieth. Rom. xv. 16. Being

XIII. God leadeth his people. Isa. xlviii. 17. I am the Lord thy God, which leadeth thee by the way thou shouldest go.

Christ leadeth. John x. 3. He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them.

The Spirit leadeth. Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

XIV. God is life, and giveth life. Deut. xxx. 20. The Lord thy God, he is thy life. who is our life, shall appear. Christ is life. Col. iii. 4. When Christ,

1 John v. 12 He that hath the Son hath life.
Gal. ii. 20. Christ liveth in me.
The Spirit is life. Rom. viii. 10.

XV. God raiseth the dead. John v. 21. The Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them.

Rom. iv. 17. God quickeneth the dead. 2 Cor. i. 9.

Christ raiseth the dead. John v. 21. The Son quickeneth whom he will.

x. 18. I have power to lay down my life, and power to take it again.

ii. 19. Destroy this temple, (viz. his body, ver. 21,) and in three days I will raise it up.

Matt. xi. 5. The dead are raised up.-Persons raised by Christ, were, Lazarus, John xi. 43.-xii. 1. A daughter. Matt. ix. 25. A widow's son. Luke vii. 11.

The Spirit raiseth the dead. 1 Pet. iii. 18. Jesus Christ quickened by the Spirit. John vi. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth.

XVI. The Son and Spirit joined with the Father in worship. Matt. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,

Christ is in them. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. Christ and of the Holy Ghost. is in you.

2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus

Eph. iii. 17. That Christ may dwell in your Christ, and the love of God, and the commuhearts. nion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

CHAPTER XIV.

DUTIES TOWARDS GOD, ENFORCED BY THREATS AND PROMISES.

KNOWLEDGE.

I. TO know God and Christ commanded, with its fruits. Deut. iv. 39. Know and consider in thine heart, that the Lord he is God, in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath : there is none else.

1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind.

Ps. xlvi. 10. Be still, and know that I am God. Ps. c. 3.

Jer. ix. 24. Let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise lovingkindness and judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

Hos. vi. 6. I desired the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

2 Pet. i. 8. Neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

II. Denying God. Tit. i. 16. Some profess to know God, but in works deny him. See 2 Pet. ii. 1.

III. Prayers for them that know God, and promises to them.' Ps. xxxvi. 10. Continue thy loving-kindness to them that know thee.

thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Ch. xlii. 7. 16.

Jer. xxiv. 7. I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

xxxi. 33, 34. I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. And they shall all know me, from the least unto the greatest.

Hos. ii. 19, 20. I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies, and in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord.

vi. 3. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.

Hab. ii. 14. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Isa. xi. 9.

Mal. i. 11. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering.

God is made known by his works. Ps. ix. 16. The Lord is known by the judgment he executeth.

xix. 1, 2. The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament sheweth his handy-work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Rom. i. 20. The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood Dan. xi. 32. The people that know God by the things that are made, even his eternal shall be strong and do exploits.

xci. 14. I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

John xvii. 3. This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 1 John ii. 13.

IV. God will be known by his people. Ps. xlviii. 3. God is known in the palaces of Zion for a refuge,

lxxvi. 1. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel.

Isa. xix. 21. The Lord shall be known to Egypt; the Egyptians shall know the Lord, and do sacrifice to him.

liv. 13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord.

lx. 2, 3. Darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. The Gentiles shall come to

power and Godhead.

lviii. 11. Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

c. 3. The Lord he is God; he made us.

2 Cor. i. 21. He which establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God.

Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is God.

V. Christ called light, as a teacher sent to give the true knowledge of God. Luke ii. 32. A light to lighten the Gentiles.

John i. 4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Ver. 7, 8. Matt. iv. 16.

Ver. 9. The true light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

viii. 12. Jesus said, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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