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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 3: Quest. How God is his Peoples great Reward. SERMON III.
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Answ. The Spirit carries influence along with itp, it consecrates the Heart, making it a Sacrary or Holy of Holies: it Sanctifies the Fancy, causing it to mint Holy Thoughts; it Sanctifies the Will, strongly by assing it to good: as Musk lying among Linen perfumes it; so the Spirit of God in the Soul perfumes it with Sanctity.
Answ. The Spirit carryes influence along with itp, it consecrates the Heart, making it a Sacrary or Holy of Holyes: it Sanctifies the Fancy, causing it to mint Holy Thoughts; it Sanctifies the Will, strongly by assing it to good: as Musk lying among Linnen perfumes it; so the Spirit of God in the Soul perfumes it with Sanctity.
- pEst Vehiculum influentiae.
Object. But are not the Unregenerate said to partake of the Holy Ghost?
Answ. They may have the Common Gifts of the Spirit, not the special Grace: they may have the enlightening of the Spirit, not the anointing; they may have the Spirit movere, not vivere, move in them, not live in them. But to partake of the Holy Ghost aright, is, when the Spirit leaves lively impressions upon the Heart, it softens, sublimates, transforms itq: writing a law of Grace there, Heb. 8.10. By this Earnest we have a Title to the Reward.