The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

1. He purchased the Spirit by his Sufferings. For ⟨p. 371⟩since Man fell from his original Innocence, he is justly deprived of special Grace, that is necessary to heal and recover him. And till by a perfect Sacrifice Divine Justice was appeased, (that had shut the Treasury of Heaven,) and the Forfeiture taken off, he could not obtain the eternal Riches. God must be reconciled before He will bestow the Holy Spirit; a Gift so great and so precious, the earnest of his peculiar Love and special Favour to us. Therefore our Saviour tells his Disciples, who were extremely afflicted for his departure from them, That it was expedient he should go away, ¹for otherwise the Spirit would not come; whose Office was to convince and convert the World. The departure of Christ implied his Death and Ascension; both which were requisite in order to the sending of Him. If the Blood of Christ had not been shed on the Cross, the Spirit had not been poured forth from Heaven. The effusion of the one, was the cause of the effusion of the other. The Rock that refreshed the Israelites in the Desert, did not pour forth its miraculous waters, till it was struck by the Rod of Moses; to instruct us, That Christ our Spiritual Rock must be struck with the Curse of the Law, the mystical Rod of Moses, to communicate the Waters of Life to us, that is, the Spirit, who is represented in Scripture under that element.

1. He purchas'd the Spirit by his Sufferings. For ⟨p. 371⟩since Man fell from his original Innocence, he is justly depriv'd of special Grace, that is necessary to heal and recover him. And till by a perfect Sacrifice Divine Justice was appeased, (that had shut the Treasury of Heaven,) and the Forfeiture taken off, he could not obtain the eternal Riches. God must be reconciled before He will bestow the Holy Spirit; a Gift so great and so precious, the earnest of his peculiar Love and special Favour to us. Therefore our Saviour tells his Disciples, who were extremely afflicted for his departure from them, That it was expedient he should go away, ¹for otherwise the Spirit would not come; whose Office was to convince and convert the World. The departure of Christ implied his Death and Ascension; both which were requisite in order to the sending of Him. If the Blood of Christ had not been shed on the Cross, the Spirit had not been poured forth from Heaven. The effusion of the one, was the cause of the effusion of the other. The Rock that refreshed the Israelites in the Desert, did not powre forth its miraculous waters, till it was struck by the Rod of Moses; to instruct us, That Christ our Spiritual Rock must be struck with the Curse of the Law, the mystical Rod of Moses, to communicate the Waters of Life to us, that is, the Spirit, who is represented in Scripture under that element.