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

WHEREFORE, in the first Place this anointing with the Holy Ghost, is the Communication of him unto us with respect unto that gracious Work of his in the Spiritual, saving Illumination of our Minds, teaching us to know the Truth, and to adhere firmly unto it in Love and Obedience. This is that which is peculiarly ascribed unto it; and we have no way to know the Nature of it, but by its Effects.

THE Anointing then of Believers with the Spirit consists in the Collation of him upon them, to this End; that he may graciously instruct them in the Truths of the Gospel, by the saving Illumination of their Minds, causing their Souls firmly to cleave unto them with Joy and Delight, and transforming them in the whole inward Man into the Image and Likeness of it. Hence it is called the anointing of our Eyes with Eye-salve that we may see, Rev. 3. 18. So doth it answer that Unction of the Lord Christ with the Spirit, which made him quick of Understanding in the fear of the Lord, Isa. 11. 3. ⟨p. 70⟩Let these things therefore be fixed in the first place; namely that the [Greek or Hebrew], the Unction which Believers receive from the Holy One, is the Spirit himself; and that his first peculiar, especial Effect as an Unction, is his teaching of us the Truths and Mysteries of the Gospel by saving Illumination in the manner before described.

THE Anointing then of Believers with the Spirit consists in the Collation of him upon them, to this End; that he may graciously instruct them in the Truths of the Gospel, by the saving Illumination of their Minds, causing their Souls firmly to cleave unto them with Joy and Delight, and transforming them in the whole inward Man into the Image and Likeness of it. Hence it is called the anointing of our Eyes with Eye-salve that we may see, Rev. 3. 18. So doth it answer that Unction of the Lord Christ with the Spirit, which made him quick of Understanding in the fear of the Lord,