Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Now this threefold expression of giving, sending, and pouring §. 21 out of the spirit, gives us the three great properties of the Covenant of grace.

Now this threefold expression of giving, sending, and powring §. 21 out of the spirit, gives us the three great properties of the Covenant of grace.

1. That it is free, he is given. 2. That it is orderly, ordered in all things and sure; from the love of the Father, by the procurement of the son; and thence is that variety of expression, of the Fathers sending him, and the Son's sending him from the Father; he being the gift of the Father's love, and the purchase of the blood of the son; 3. The efficacy of it, as was last observed. And this is the second thing considerable.

1. That it is free, he is given. 2. That it is orderly, ordered in all things and sure; from the love of the Father, by the procurement of the sonne; and thence is that variety of expression, of the Fathers sending him, and the Son's sending him from the Father; he being the gift of the Father's love, and the purchase of the blood of the sonne; 3. The efficacy of it, as was last observed. And this is the second thing considerable.

3. The third, which is our receiving him, I shall speak more briefly of. That which I first proposed, of the spirit considered §. 22 as a spirit of Sanctification, and a spirit of consolation, is here to be minded. Our receiving of him, as a spirit of sanctification is a mere passive reception, as a vessel receive's water. He comes as the wind on Ezekiel's dead bones, and makes them live. He comes into dead hearts, and quickens them, by an act of his Almighty power: but now as he is the spirit of consolation, it is otherwise; in this sense our Saviour tells us that the world cannot receive him,