The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

I shall only here desire you by the way to note that when I have all this while showed you that the SPIRIT is the great witness of the truth of Christianity, that it is, this spirit of Wisdom, Goodness and Power, in the Prophets, in Christ, in the Apostles, and in all Christians, expressed in the doctrine, and the practices aforesaid, which I mean; as being principally the Evidences, or objective witness of Jesus Christ; and secondarily, being in all true Believers, their teacher, or illuminator and sanctifier, efficiently to cause them to perceive the aforesaid objective Evidences in its cogent undeniable ⟨p. 135⟩power. And thus the Holy Ghost is the promised Agent or Advocate of Christ; to do his work in his bodily absence in the world: And that in this sense it is, that we Believe in the HOLY GHOST, and are baptized into his Name; and not only as he is the third person in the Eternal Trinity.

I shall only here desire you by the way to note that when I have all this while shewed you that the SPIRIT is the great witness of the truth of Christianity, that it is, this spirit of Wisdom, Goodness and Power, in the Prophets, in Christ, in the Apostles, and in all Christians, expressed in the doctrine, and the practices aforesaid, which I mean; as being principally the Evidences, or objective witness of Jesus Christ; and secondarily, being in all true Believers, their teacher, or illuminater and sanctifier, efficiently to cause them to perceive the aforesaid objective Evidences in its cogent undeniable ⟨p. 135⟩power. And thus the Holy Ghost is the promised Agent or Advocate of Christ; to do his work in his bodily absence in the world: And that in this sense it is, that we Believe in the HOLY GHOST, and are baptized into his Name; and not only as he is the third person in the Eternal Trinity.

And therefore it is to be lamented exceedingly, 1. That any Orthodox Teachers should recite over many of these parts of the witness of the SPIRIT, and when they have done, tell us, that yet all these are not sufficient to convince us without the testimony of the Spirit: As if all this were none of the testimony of the Spirit; and as if they would persuade us and our enemies, that the testimony which must satisfy us, is only some inward impress of this Proposition on the mind, by way of inspiration, [The Scriptures are the Word of God, and true.] Overlooking the great witness of the Spirit, which is his special work, and which our Baptism relateth to, and feigning some extraordinary new thing as the only testimony.