Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

2. In regard of influence. So Christ is an head to the Church as he giveth us his Spirit: That Spirit which gives Life to Believers is often called Christs Spirit, Gal. 4.6. God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts. It is purchased by his Merit, Tit. 3.6. conveyed to us by his Power, Joh. 15.26. I will send the comforter from the father. The communication is by his Ordinances: The Word, 2 Cor. 3.18. Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same Image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord. Sacraments: 1 Cor. 12.13. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, ⟨p. 123⟩and ••ve all been made to drink into one spirit. To promote the Religion which he hath est•••••hed, Joh. 16.13, 14. When the spirit […] truth is come, he will guide you into all tr•• […] for he shall not speak of himself, but wh•• […] ever he shall hear that he shall speak. And he will show you things to come and he shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. He comes to us as his Members, and by influence from him, as in the natural body the animal spirits are from the head, are by the members conveyed to all the parts of the body; so Christ in this spiritual Union worketh in us a quickening Spirit; Eph. 4.15, 16. We grow up to him in all things which is the head even Christ: From whom the whole body joined together maketh increase, &c. The spirit is not given to any one Believer, but derivatively from Christ to us. First it is given to Christ as Mediator, and to us only by virtue of our union with him. He is in Christ as radically inherent, but in us operatively, to accomplish certain effects; or he dwelleth in our Head by way of radication, in us by way of influence and operation.