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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Pray for the Spirit, that he would perform his whole Office to you, that you may not partake only of the work of the Spirit in ⟨p. 209⟩some one or some few of his operations, but in all that are common to Believers. And especially that he that has been an anointing Spirit to you, would be a sealing Spirit to you also; that he that has sealed you, may be a witnessing Spirit to his own work; and that he would be the earnest of your inheritance, a pledge of what God has further promised and purposed for you, 2 Cor. 1.21, 22. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed you, is God. Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit into our hearts.
(2.) To speak a little more particularly; what the Apostle prays for his Ephesians in more general Terms, he prays for the Colossians more particularly, Col. 1.9, 10. We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his Will, in all Wisdom, and Spiritual Understanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. And when I have opened the particulars of this Scripture, I shall not need to seek elsewhere for an answer to this Inquiry, What is the matter of the fullness of God, which we ought to pray and strive to be filled with?
(2.) To speak a little more particularly; what the Apostle prays for his Ephesians in more general Terms, he prays for the Colossians more particularly, Col. 1.9, 10. We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be fill'd with the knowledge of his Will, in all Wisdom, and Spiritual Ʋnderstanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and encreasing in the knowledge of God. And when I have opened the particulars of this Scripture, I shall not need to seek elsewhere for an answer to this Inquiry, What is the matter of the fulness of God, which we ought to pray and strive to be filled with?