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

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 ⟨p. 55⟩in the Saints of God, is a most illustrious and incontrollable Demonstration of his Eternal Glory. For none but he who is absolutely immense in his Nature and Omnipresence, can be so present with, and indistant from all Believers in the World; and none but he whose Person by Virtue of his Nature is infinite, can personally, equally inhabit in them all. An Infinite Nature and Person is required hereunto. And in the Consideration of the Incomprehensibility thereof are we to acquiesce as to the Manner of his Inhabitation, which we cannot conceive.

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 Condescention 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 ⟨p. 55⟩in the Saints of God, is a most illustrious and incontroulable Demonstration of his Eternal Glory. For none but he who is absolutely immense in his Nature and Omnipresence, can be so present with, and indistant from all Believers in the World; and none but he whose Person by Vertue of his Nature is infinite, can personally, equally inhabit in them all. An Infinite Nature and Person is required hereunto. And in the Consideration of the Incomprehensibility thereof are we to acquiesce as to the Manner of his Inhabitation, which we cannot conceive.