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

1. That it is the fruit of Reconciling Grace; 2 Cor. 5.18. All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. God gives Grace, only as the God of Peace, as pacified by the death of Christ, the holy Spirit is the gift of his Love, and the fruit of this Peace and Reconciliation which Christ made for us. Our Lord Jesus Christ merited this Grace by the value of his sacrifice and bloody sufferings, Tit. 3.5, 6.

1. That it is the fruit of Reconciling Grace; 2 Cor. 5.18. All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Iesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. God gives Grace, onely as the God of Peace, as pacified by the death of Christ, the holy Spirit is the gift of his Love, and the fruit of this Peace and Reconciliation which Christ made for us. Our Lord Jesus Christ merited this Grace by the value of his sacrifice and bloody sufferings, Tit. 3.5, 6.

2. It is applied to us by the Almighty power of his Spirit. Christ is first the Ransom for, then the fountain of Life to our souls, and so the honour of our entire and whole recovery is to be ascribed only to our Redeemer, who as he satisfied the Justice of God for our sins, so he also purchased a power to change our hearts, and he purchased this power into his own hands, not into another's, and therefore doth accomplish it by his Spirit, 2 Cor. 3.18. We should often think what a foundation God hath laid for the dispensation of his grace and how he would demonstrate his infinite love in giving us his son to be a ⟨p. 144⟩