Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his…

2. 'Tis a contempt, undervaluing of the Holy Spirit of the Lord; whose they are, and from whom they did proceed. Let persons pretensions be what they will, it cannot be otherwise. Gospel-Institutions are of, through the Spirit; to slight, these is to cast contempt upon him from whom they are.

3. That the Spirit is obliged to support, maintain them against all oppositions. He remains with his People for ever for that end, John 16.13. Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come, he shall guide you into all Truth. v. 14. He shall Glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. And he hath actually done so hitherto, keeping alive a blessed witness, testimony to them, for them, in his called, chosen witnesses more or less, in every day. Though sometimes this their testimony hath cost them dear; viz. loss of Goods, Enjoyments, Friends, Liberty, Life it self; yet they have Gloried, Triumphed under all through this Spirit of Glory, and of God that rested upon them, and enabled them in this work. The very truth is, as the great controversy of Christ, with the Nations of the European World, hath been upon the account of their Spiritual fornications, or false worship; so the great controversy of Antichrist against the Lord's Children, hath been, is, and will be, till he be destroyed upon the account of their abiding by the institutions of Christ, Rev. 12.17, The Dragon (or Devil) was wroth with the Woman, (the Church) and went to make War with the remnant of her seed, which keep the Commandments of God.—Commandments! What Commandments? Such as relate to what is obvious to the eye of the Devils Instruments, viz. Gospel-Institutions (of which afterwards.)

3. That the Spirit is obliged to support, maintain them against all oppositions. He remains with his People for ever for that end, John 16.13. Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come, he shall guide you into all Truth. v. 14. He shall Glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. And he hath actually done so hitherto, keeping alive a blessed witness, testimony to them, for them, in his called, chosen witnesses more or less, in every day. Though sometimes this their testimony hath cost them dear; viz. loss of Goods, Enjoyments, Friends, Liberty, Life it self; yet they have Gloryed, Triumph'd under all through this Spirit of Glory, and of God that rested upon them, and enabled them in this work. The very truth is, as the great controversie of Christ, with the Nations of the European World, hath been upon the account of their Spiritual fornications, or false worship; so the great controversy of Antichrist against the Lord's Children, hath been, is, and will be, till he be destroy'd upon the account of their abiding by the institutions of Christ,