The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

And if it be granted that any designed appointed Mercy whatever that in Christ, the Lord blesseth us withal, be procured for us by him, in the way of merit, (being given freely to us, through him, but reckoned to him of debt) it will easily be manifested, that the same is the condition of every Mercy whatever promised unto us, and given us, upon his Mediatory interposition.

And if it be granted that any designed appointed Mercy whatever that in Christ, the Lord blesseth us withall, be procured for us by him, in the way of merit, (being given freely to us, through him, but reckoned to him of debt) it will easily be manifested, that the same is the condition of every Mercy whatever promised unto us, and given us, upon his Mediatory interposition.

2. It appears from that peculiar promise,¹ that Christ makes of sending his Holy Spirit unto his own; He tells them indeed, once, and again, that the Father will send him:² As he comes from that original and Fountain Love, from which also himself was sent. But withal, he assures us, that he himself will send him. Joh. 15. 26. When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth. It is true! that he is promised here only as a Comforter, for the performance of that part of his Office. But look upon what account he is sent for any one Act,³ or Work of Grace, on that he is sent for all. I will send him, then saith Christ: and that as a fruit of his death, as the procurement of his Mediation; for that alone he promiseth to bestow on his. And in particular he tells us, that he receives the spirit from the Father for us upon his Intercession, wherein, as hath been elsewhere demonstrated, he asks no more nor less,⁴