Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

But for any except real Believers to have those Witnesses and Sealings of the Spirit described above, is utterly impossible, and will evidently appear to be so, whether we consider

The Author Nature Object Mediums End and design. of this work.

First: Consider the Author of this work, the Spirit of God, who is an Holy ¹Spirit, as the Text calls him, and the Spirit of Truth, as Christ calls him, Joh. 14. 17. and it cannot be that ever he should give testimony to a lye, or give a false witness, quite cross to the very tenor of the written word, as he must do, should he Seal an Unbeliever. What though they be Elect, yet whilst Unregenerate, they have no actual interest in Christ and the Promises, and therefore can have none Sealed by the Spirit. Prius est praedicare de esse quam de cognosci; we must be ⟨p. 66⟩Saints before we can be known to be so.

First: Consider the Author of this work, the Spirit of God, who is an Holy ¹Spirit, as the Text calls him, and the Spirit of Truth, as Christ calls him, Joh. 14. 17. and it cannot be that ever he should give testimony to a lye, or give a false witness, quite cross to the very tenour of the written word, as he must do, should he Seal an Unbeliever. What though they be Elect, yet whilst Unregenerate, they have no actual interest in Christ and the Promises, and therefore can have none Sealed by the Spirit. Prius est praedicare de esse quam de cognosci; we must be