Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit…

FIRST, This Personal Inhabitation of the Holy Spirit in Believers, is distinct and different from his Essential Omnipresence, whereby he is in all things. Omnipresence is Essential; Inhabitation is Personal. Omnipresence is a necessary Property of his Nature, and so not of him as a distinct Person in the Trinity, but as God essentially, one and the same in Being and Substance with the Father and the Son. To be every where, to fill all things, to be present with them, or indistant from them, always equally existing in the Power of an Infinite Being, is an inseparable Property of the Divine Nature as such. But this Inhabitation is Personal, or what belongs unto him distinctly as the Holy Ghost. Besides it is voluntary, and that which might not have been, whence it is the Subject of a ⟨p. 52⟩Free Promise of God, and wholly depends on a Free Act of the Will of the Holy Spirit himself.

SECONDLY, It is not a Presence by Virtue of a Metonymical Denomination, or an Expression of the Cause for the Effect, that is intended. The meaning of this Promise, The Spirit shall dwell in you, is not, He shall work graciously in you; for this he can without any especial Presence. Being essentially every where, he can work where and how he pleaseth, without any especial Presence. But it is the Spirit himself that is promised, and his Presence in an especial manner, and an especial manner of that Presence; he shall be in you, and dwell in you, as we shall see. The only Enquiry in this matter is, whether the Holy Spirit himself be promised unto Believers, or only his Grace, which we shall immediately enquire into.

SECONDLY, It is not a Presence by Vertue of a Metonymical Denomination, or an Expression of the Cause for the Effect, that is intended. The meaning of this Promise, The Spirit shall dwell in you, is not, He shall work graciously in you; for this he can without any especial Presence. Being essentially every where, he can work where and how he pleaseth, without any especial Presence. But it is the Spirit himself that is promised, and his Presence in an especial manner, and an especial manner of that Presence; he shall be in you, and dwell in you, as we shall see. The only Enquiry in this matter is, whether the Holy Spirit himself be promised unto Believers, or only his Grace, which we shall immediately enquire into.