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

They are made Children of God by Adoption, and it is meet they be taught to carry themselves as becomes that new Relation. Because ye are Sons, he hath given you the Spirit of his Son, without which they cannot walk before him as becometh Sons. He teacheth them to bear and behave themselves no longer as Foreigners and Strangers, nor as Servants only, but as Children and Heirs of God, Rom. 8. 15. He endoweth them with a frame and disposition of heart unto Holy filial obedience: For as he takes away the distance, making them to be nigh who were Aliens, and far from God; so he removes that fear, dread and bondage which they are kept in who are under the power of the Law, 2 Tim. 1. 7. For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear, but of power and love, and of a sound mind. Not the Spirit of fear, or a Spirit of bondage unto fear, as Rom. 8. 15. that is, in and by the efficacy of the Law filling our minds with ⟨p. 38⟩dread and such considerations of God as will keep us at a distance from him. But he is in the Sons, on whom he is bestowed, a Spirit of Power; strengthening and enabling them unto all Duties of Obedience. This [Greek or Hebrew] is that whereby we are enabled to Obedience, which the Apostle gives thanks for, 1 Tim. 1. 12. [Greek or Hebrew], to Christ that enableth me that is, by his Spirit of Power. For without the Spirit of Adoption we have not the least strength or Power to behave our selves as Sons in the Family of God. And he is also, as thus bestowed, a Spirit of Love, who worketh in us that Love unto God and that delight in him, which becometh Children towards their Heavenly Father. This is the first genuine consequent of this Relation. There may be many Duties performed unto God where there is no true Love to him; at least no love unto him as a Father in Christ, which alone is genuine and accepted. And lastly, he is also a Spirit [Greek or Hebrew], of a modest, grave and sober mind. Even Children are apt to wax wanton and curious and proud in their Fathers House; but the Spirit enables them to behave themselves with that Sobriety, Modesty and Humility which becometh ⟨p. 39⟩