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

FOURTHLY, The Union and Relation that ensues on this Inhabitation of the Spirit, is not immediate between him and Believers, but between them and Jesus Christ. For he is sent to dwell in them by Christ, in his Name, as his Spirit, to supply his Room in Love and Grace towards them, making use of his things in all his Effects and Operations unto his Glory. Hence, I say, is the Union of Believers with Christ by the Spirit, and not with the Spirit himself. For this Holy Spirit dwelling in the Humane Nature of Christ, manifesting and acting himself in all Fullness therein, as hath been declared, being sent by him to dwell in like manner, and act in a limited Measure in all Believers, there is a mystical Union thence arising between them, whereof the Spirit is the Bond and Vital Principle.

FOURTHLY, The Union and Relation that ensues on this Inhabitation of the Spirit, is not immediate between him and Believers, but between them and Jesus Christ. For he is sent to dwell in them by Christ, in his Name, as his Spirit, to supply his Room in Love and Grace towards them, making use of his things in all his Effects and Operations unto his Glory. Hence, I say, is the Union of Believers with Christ by the Spirit, and not with the Spirit himself. For this Holy Spirit dwelling in the Humane Nature of Christ, manifesting and acting himself in all Fulness therein, as hath been declared, being sent by him to dwell in like manner, and act in a limited Measure in all Believers, there is a mystical Union thence arising between them, whereof the Spirit is the Bond and Vital Principle.

ON these Considerations, I say, it is the Person of the Holy Ghost that is promised unto Believers, and not only the Effects of his Grace and Power, and his Person it is that always dwelleth in them. And as this on the one hand is an Argument of his Infinite Condescension in complying with this Part of his Office and Work, to be sent by the Father and Son to dwell in Believers, so it is an evident Demonstration of his Eternal Deity, that the one and self-same Person should at the same time inhabit so many Thousands of distinct Persons as are, or were at any time, of Believers in the World; which is Fondness to imagine concerning any one that is not absolutely infinite. And therefore that which some oppose as unmeet for him, and beneath his Glory, namely, this his Inhabitation