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

Having truly affected the whole Soul, enlightened the mind in the perception of the Truth, Beauty and Excellency of Spiritual things, engaged the Will in the Choice of them, and prevalent Love unto them, excited the Affections to delight in them, and unto desires after them, there is in the actual discharge of this Duty of Prayer, wrought in the Soul by the Power and efficacy of his Grace, such an inward labouring of Heart and Spirit, such an Holy Supernatural Desire and Endeavour after an Union with the things prayed for in the ⟨p. 91⟩enjoyment of them, as no Words can utter or expressly declare, that is, fully and completely; which is the sense of the place.

Having truely affected the whole Soul, enlightened the mind in the perception of the Truth, Beauty and Excellency of Spiritual things, ingaged the Will in the Choice of them, and prevalent Love unto them, excited the Affections to delight in them, and unto desires after them, there is in the actual discharge of this Duty of Prayer, wrought in the Soul by the Power and efficacy of his Grace, such an inward labouring of Heart and Spirit, such an Holy Supernatural Desire and Endeavour after an Union with the things prayed for in the ⟨p. 91⟩injoyment of them, as no Words can utter or expresly declare, that is, fully and compleatly; which is the sense of the place.

To avoid the force of this Testimony some (one at least) would have this Intercession of the Spirit, to be the Intercession of the Spirit in Christ for us now at the right Hand of God, so that no Work of the Spirit it self in Believers is intended. Such irrational Evasions will men sometimes make use of, to escape the convincing Power of Light and Truth. For this is such a Description of the Intercession of Christ at the Right Hand of God, as will scarcely be reconciled unto the Analogy of Faith. That it is not an humble, oral Supplication, but a blessed Representation of his Oblation whereby the efficacy of it is continued and applied unto all the particular occasions of the Church or Believers, I have elsewhere declared, and it is the common Faith of Christians. But here it should be reported as the labouring of the Spirit in him with unutterable groans, the highest expression of an humble, burdened, solicitous Endeavour. Nothing is more unsuited unto the present Glorious condition of the Mediator. It is true, that in the Days of his