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

(2.) WHAT it is that it teacheth; and that is all things; The same anointing teacheth you all things. So was the Promise that he should teach us all things, and bring all things to our Remembrance that Christ hath said unto us, John 14. 26. and guide us into all Truth; Chap. 16. 13. It is not all things absolutely that is intended, for they are restrained unto those of one certain kind, even ⟨p. 73⟩the things which Christ had spoken, that is, such as belonged unto the Kingdom of God. Neither are they all of them absolutely intended, especially as to the Degrees of the Knowledge of them. For in this Life we know but in part, and see all things darkly as in a Glass. But it is all things and all Truth with respect unto the End of this Promise and Teaching. In the Promise the whole Life of Faith with Joy and Consolation thereon, is the End designed. All things necessary thereunto, this Unction teacheth us. And in the other place of the Apostle, it respects the great Fundamental Truths of the Gospel which the Seducers opposed, from whose Seduction this Unction doth secure Believers. Wherefore it teacheth all that are made partakers of it, all that Truth, all those things, all that Christ hath spoken that are necessary unto these Ends that they may live unto God in the Consolation of Faith, and be delivered from all Attempts to draw them into Error.

THE Degrees of this Knowledge which are exceeding various, both with respect unto the clearness and evidence of Conception, and the extent of the things known, depend on the various Measures whereby the Spirit acteth according unto his own Will, and the different use of the external Means of Knowledge which we do enjoy. But what is necessary unto the Ends mentioned, none shall come short of who enjoy this anointing. And where its Teachings are complied withal in a way of Duty, where we obstruct them not by Prejudices and Sloth, where we give up our selves unto their directive Efficacy in a diligent, impartial Attendance unto the Word whereby alone we are to be taught, we shall not fail of that knowledge in the whole