A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

1. On Christ's part.

(1.) The Spirit is necessary. Titus 3.5. He saved us by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost applieth all the Grace which the Father intendeth, and Christ hath purchased. We are usually said to be saved by the Blood of Christ, that was the Merit and Price. There was a Grant on God the Father's part: Rev. 19.8. To her it was granted to be arrayed in fine Linen clean and white. An Authentic Act passeth in the Court of Heaven, that we shall have fine Linen; as Esther had Garments out of the King's Wardrobe. But this is founded on Christ's Merits; the Stream in which we are washed, flowed out of Christ's Heart; 1 John 1.7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin. But then the Holy Ghost, as the Executor of Christ's Will and Testament, worketh and applieth all. The Merit of the Creature is excluded by Christ's Merit, and the Father's Grant; the Power of the Creature is excluded by the Work of the Spirit; he worketh with a respect to Christ's Blood. As in the cleansing of the Leper, the Bird was to be killed over running Water, Levit. 14.5. So in the cleansing of the Sinner, there is the Merit of Christ, and the Work of the Spirit; 1 Cor. 6.11. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. If we come to the Father, the Father sends us to the Son, otherwise he could not look upon us; the Son sends us to the Spirit; the Spirit sends us to Moses and the Prophets.

(1.) The Spirit is necessary.