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

So is he in all respects completely an Earnest: Given of God, received by us, as the beginning of our inheritance, and §. 22 the Assurance of it. So much as we have of the spirit, so much we have of Heaven, in perfect enjoyment, and so much evidence of its future fullness. Under this apprehension of him in the dispensation of Grace, do Believers receive him, and rejoice in him: Every gracious self evidencing act of his in their hearts, they rejoice in, as a drop from Heaven; and long for the Ocean of it▪ Not to drive every effect of grace to this issue, to neglect the work of the Holy Ghost in us, and towards us.

So is he in all respects compleatly an Earnest: Given of God, received by us, as the beginning of our inheritance, and §. 22 the Assurance of it. So much as we have of the spirit, so much we have of Heaven, in perfect enjoyment, and so much evidence of its future fullnesse. Under this apprehension of him in the dispensation of Grace, do Believers receive him, and rejoyce in him: Every gracious selfe evidencing act of his in their hearts, they rejoyce in, as a drop from Heaven; and long for the Ocean of it▪ Not to drive every effect of grace to this issue, to neglect the worke of the Holy Ghost in us, and towards us.

There remains only that a difference be in a few words assigned between Believers receiving the Spirit, 'as an Earnest of the whole inheritance; and hypocrites, tasting of the powers of the world to come Heb. 5. 6. A test of the powers of the world to come, seems to be the same with the earnest of the inheritance.

There remaines only that a difference be in a few words assigned between Believers receiving the Spirit, 'as an Earnest of the whole inheritance; and hypocrits, tasting of the powers of the world to come Heb. 5. 6. A test of the powers of the world to come, seems to be the same with the earnest of the inheritance.