An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Secondly, Another ground of the Doctrine is, From the sameness and ¹identity of that Spirit of God, which enliveneth all, and worketh in all. For as it is with the body, though it hath different parts, yet all those are informed and animated by the same soul. It is not one soul that informeth the arms, another the feet, but it's one and the same soul that informeth all. Thus it is also with all the people of God, they may differ much in externals, their condition, their estate; yea in internals also, in illumination and sanctification, yet it is the same Spirit of God, that liveth and worketh in them all. If therefore the same root give nourishment to all of them, they all grow upon the same stock; if the same spirit diffuse it self through all, no wonder if what comforts one may also comfort another; no wonder if the same promises revive one that doth another. He said, Homo sum, & nihil humani alienum, &c. He was a man; and so nothing of a man was strange to him. Thus thou art a believer, a new creature, and so nothing that is proper to such, should be strange to thee.

Secondly, Another ground of the Doctrine is, From the samenesse and ¹identity of that Spirit of God, which enliveneth all, and worketh in all. For as it is with the body, though it hath different parts, yet all those are informed and animated by the same soul. It is not one soul that informeth the arms, another the feet, but it's one and the same soul that informeth all. Thus it is also with all the people of God, they may differ much in externals, their condition, their estate; yea in internals also, in illumination and sanctification, yet it is the same Spirit of God, that liveth and worketh in them all. If therefore the same root give nourishment to all of them, they all grow upon the same stock; if the same spirit diffuse it self through all, no wonder if what comforts one may also comfort another; no wonder if the same promises revive one that doth another. He said, Homo sum, & nihil humani alienum, &c. He was a man; and so nothing of a man was strange to him. Thus thou art a believer, a new creature, and so nothing that is proper to such, should be strange to thee.

1. 12. Because all have the same spirit.