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

That this is the sense of the place and the mind of the Holy Ghost in the Words, needs no other Demonstration, but that it is expressive of their proper Signification, neither can any other sense tolerably be affixed on them. To deny the Holy Spirit to be denominated a Spirit of Supplication, because he inclineth, disposeth and enableth them to pray unto whom he is promised and on whom he is bestowed as such, is to use a little too much Liberty in Sacred things.

That this is the sense of the place and the mind of the Holy Ghost in the Words, needs no other Demonstration, but that it is expressive of their proper Signification, neither can any other sense tolerably be affixed on them. To deny the Holy Spirit to be denominated a Spirit of Supplication, because he enclineth, disposeth and enableth them to pray unto whom he is promised and on whom he is bestowed as such, is to use a little too much Liberty in Sacred things.

A Learned man of late out of hatred unto the Spirit of Prayer, or Prayer as his Gift, hath endeavoured to deprive the Church of God of the whole benefit and comfort of this Promise, Amyrald. praefat. in Psal. For he contends that it belongs not unto the Christian Church, but unto the Jews only. Had he said it belonged unto the Jews in the first place who should be converted unto Christ, he had not gone so wide from the Truth, nor from the sense of other Expositors, though he had said more than he could prove. But to suppose that any Grace, any Mercy, any Privilege by Jesus ⟨p. 25⟩Christ, is promised unto the Jews wherein Gentile Believers shall be no Sharers, that they should not partake of the same kind, whoever hath the Prerogative as to Degrees, is fond and impious. For if they also are Children of Abraham, if the Blessing of Faithful Abraham do come upon them also, if it is through them that he is the Heir of the World, his Spiritual Seed inhabiting it by Right in all places, then unto them do all the Promises belong that are made unto him and his Seed. And whereas most of the Exceeding great and precious Promises of the Old Testament are made to Jacob and Israel, to Jerusalem and Zion; it is but saying that they are all confined unto the Jews, and so at once despoil the Church of God of all Right and Title to them, which Impious folly and Sacrilege hath been by some attempted. But whereas all the Promises belong unto the same Covenant, with all the Grace contained in them and exhibited by them, who ever is interested by Faith in that Covenant, is so in all the Promises of God that belong thereunto, and hath an equal Right unto them, with those unto whom they were first given. To suppose, now that the Jews are rejected for their Unbelief, that the Promises