The application of redemption

When our Saviour was to leave the world, and to go to Heaven to possess the glory he had with the Father before all worlds, he comforts the hearts of his Disciples touching his departure with the Consideration of the incomparable benefit that would accrue therefrom, John, 16. 7. It is expedient for you that I go away, so if I go not away, the comforter will not come, but if I depart I will send him, that is, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus would not dispense the powerful work of his Grace in such an abundant measure, unless he ascended unto the Throne of his Grace; for the largeness of the dispensation thereof, and that in reason until that time, The Spirit was not yet given, because Christ was not yet glorified, John, 7. 39. When he ascended up on high he then gave gifts unto men even for the Rebellious, Eph. 4. 8. And herein appears the powerful dispensation of his Grace, and operation of his Spirit, then when the Comforter is come, he shall convince the world of sin, he shall set down the Consciences of the Sons of men in the sight of their vileness and guilt: This is as it were […] Master-piece of the work of the Spirit, when he is sent from Heaven, from the Father and the Son with full Commission and Power, from our Saviour, advanced to the highest pitch of supremest excellency of his Kingly, Prophetical, and Priestly Offices, and that for this end in the first place as the prime and hardest work to convince the world of sin: Now to gainsay and contradict this Spirit in this Work, for which he hath received this Commission, is to contest for Masteries with the Almighty, Heb. 12. 25. If they escaped not who refused Moses who spake on Earth, how shall we escape if we refuse him that speaks from Heaven? And this is the ⟨p. 97⟩highest strain of rebellion, when a […] will not give way nor yield in the least but […] out this authority of the spirit from having any entertainment, even in the suburbs, […] our apprehensions and understandings, while we continue in this gainsaying frame; there wants nothing but light and malice to make it […] sin against the Holy Ghost. Here is the heinousness of the sin;