Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THESE things which I have but named, have an Influence into the Glory of Christ herein: For this Communication of him unto the Church, is an effect of the eternal Counsel, Wisdom, Grace and Power of the Father.

BUT they are the Acts of Christ himself herein, which principally we enquire into, as those which manifest the Glory of his Wisdom, Love and Condescension.

BUT they are the Acts of Christ himself herein, which principally we enquire into, as those which manifest the Glory of his Wisdom, Love and Condescention.

AND 1. He gives and communicates unto them his holy Spirit; the holy Spirit as peculiarly his, as granted unto him of the Father, as inhabiting in him in all fullness. This Spirit abiding originally as to his Person, and immeasurably as unto his Effects and Operations in himself, he gives unto all Believers to inhabit and abide in them also, Joh. 14. 14. 20. 1 Cor. 6. 16, 17. Rom. 8. 8. Hence follows an ineffable Union between him and them. For as in his Incarnation he took our Nature into personal Union with his own; so herein he takes our Persons into a Mystical Union with himself. Hereby he becomes ours, and we are his.

AND 1. He gives and communicates unto them his holy Spirit; the holy Spirit as peculiarly his, as granted unto him of the Father, as inhabiting in him in all fulness. This Spirit abiding originally as to his Person, and immeasurably as unto his Effects and Operations in himself, he gives unto all Believers to inhabit and abide in them also,