A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…

First, The Subject on whom he is bestowed and in whom he worketh, are Believers or those who by the Spirit of Adoption are made the Children of God. We receive the Adoption of Sons, and because we are Sons, he sendeth his Spirit into our Hearts. And this privilege of Adoption we obtain by Faith in Christ Jesus, John 1. 12. To as many as received him, he gave Power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believed on his Name. Secondly. There is an especial Appellation or Description of the Spirit as promised and given unto this purpose, He is the Spirit of the Son. That the Original ground and Reason hereof, is his Eternal Relation to the Son as proceeding from him, hath been elsewhere evinced. But there is something more particular here intended. He is called the Spirit of the Son, with respect unto his Communication to Believers. There is therefore included herein, that especial ⟨p. 36⟩Regard unto Jesus Christ the Son of God which is in the Work mentioned, as it is an Evangelical Mercy and Privilege. He is therefore called the Spirit of the Son, not only because of his eternal Procession from him; But (1.) Because he was in the first place given unto him as the Head of the Church, for the Unction, Consecration and Sanctification of his humane Nature. Here he laid the Foundation, and gave an example of what he was to do in and towards all his Members. (2.) It is immediately from and by him, that he is communicated unto us, and that two ways: (1.) Authoritatively, by Virtue of the Covenant between the Father and him, whereon, upon his Accomplishment of the Work of the Mediation in a State of Humiliation according to it, he received the Promise of the Spirit, that is, Power and Authority to bestow him on whom he would, for all the ends of that Mediation, Acts 2. 33. Chap. 5. 31. (2) Formally, in that all the Graces of the Spirit are derived unto us from him as the Head of the Church, as the spring of all spiritual Life, in whom they were all treasured and laid up unto that purpose, Col. 2. 19. Eph. 4. 16. Col. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4. ⟨p. 37⟩