An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

First, To enlighten, or to give the light of the knowledge of his own glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Who can hinder God, when he purposeth thus to instruct and teach the ignorant, and make them wise unto Salvation, wiser than their teachers; who can hinder it?

Secondly, To convert, to work faith and repentance, together with love, humility, &c. These graces are distilled, and drop down from the Spirit of God upon the soul; and who can hinder the Spirit from working them in the most hardened and unbelieving souls in the most vain, proud, and presumptuous soul? the barrenest wilderness, dryest heath (such are persons unconverted) are made fruitful by the influences of the Spirit.

Secondly, To convert, to work faith and repentance, together with love, humility, &c. These graces are destilled, and drop down from the Spirit of God upon the soul; and who can hinder the Spirit from working them in the most hardened and unbelieving souls in the most vain, proud, and presumptuous soul? the barren'st wilderness, dryest heath (such are persons unconverted) are made fruitful by the influences of the Spirit.

Thirdly, To refresh and comfort. There are unspeakable influences of joy distilled from the spirit upon believers; and when God will let them down from heaven, who can let them? what can let them? All the troubles and sorrows, all the pains and tortures, that men can invent or inflict upon a believer, cannot bind these influences of the Spirit, nor hinder joy in believing. The greatest evils of this life, can neither shut up nor shut out, that comfort which the Spirit speaketh. The most churlish winds that can blow from the coldest quarters of the world cannot chill, much less kill or blast those fruits of the Spirit, Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, saith, meekness, temperance, mentioned by the Apostle (