2. And that Faith may be so powerful as to serve instead of sight and presence, Believers have the Spirit of Christ within them, to excite and actuate it, and help them against all temptations to unbelief, and to work in them all other graces that concur to promote the works of Faith; and to mortify those sins that hinder our believing, and are contrary to a heavenly life: So that as the exercise of our sight, and taste, and hearing, and feeling, is caused by our natural life; so the exercise of Faith and Hope, and Love, upon things unseen, is caused by the holy Spirit, which is the principle of our new life, 1 Cor. 2.12. We have received the Spirit, that we might know the things that are given us of God.] This Spirit of God acquainteth us with God, with his veracity and his Word, Heb. 10.30. We know him that hath said, I will never fail thee, nor forsake thee.] This Spirit of Christ acquainteth us with Christ, and with his grace and will. 1 Cor. 2.10, 11, 12. This heavenly Spirit acquainteth us with Heaven, so that [We know that when Christ appeareth, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, 1 Joh. 3.2. And we know that he was manifested to take away sin,] 1 Joh. 3.5. And will perfect his work, and present us spotless to his Father, Eph. 5.26, 27. This heavenly Spirit possesseth the Saints with such heavenly dispositions and desires, as much facilitate the work of Faith. It bringeth us to a heavenly conversation; and maketh us live as fellow-citizens of the Saints, and in the household of God, Phil. 3.20. Eph. 2.19. It is within us a Spirit of supplication, breathing heaven-ward, with sighs and ⟨p. 6⟩groans which cannot be expressed; and as God knoweth the meaning of the Spirit, so the Spirit knows the mind of God, Rom. 8.37. 1 Cor. 2.11.
2. And that Faith may be so powerful as to serve instead of sight and presence, Believers have the Spirit of Christ within them, to excite and actuate it, and help them against all temptations to unbelief, and to work in them all other graces that concur to promote the works of Faith; and to mortifie those sins that hinder our believing, and are contrary to a heavenly life: So that as the exercise of our sight, and taste, and hearing, and feeling, is caused by our natural life; so the exercise of Faith and Hope, and Love, upon things unseen, is caused by the holy Spirit, which is the principle of our new life, 1 Cor. 2.12. We have received the Spirit, that we might know the things that are given us of God.] This Spirit of God acquainteth us with God, with his veracity and his Word, Heb. 10.30. We know him that hath said, I will never fail thee, nor forsake thee.] This Spirit of Christ acquainteth us with Christ, and with his grace and will. 1 Cor. 2.10, 11, 12. This heavenly Spirit acquainteth us with Heaven, so that [We know that when Christ appeareth, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, 1 Joh. 3.2. And we know that he was manifested to take away sin,] 1 Joh. 3.5. And will perfect his work, and present us spotless to his Father, Eph. 5.26, 27. This heavenly Spirit possesseth the Saints with such heavenly dispositions and desires, as much facilitate the work of Faith. It bringeth us to a heavenly conversation; and maketh us live as fellow-citizens of the Saints, and in the houshold of God, Phil. 3.20. Eph. 2.19. It is within us a Spirit of supplication, breathing heaven-ward, with sighs and ⟨p. 6⟩groans which cannot be expressed; and as God knoweth the meaning of the Spirit, so the Spirit knows the mind of God, Rom. 8.37. 1 Cor. 2.11.
