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

CHAP. VI. The Spirit a Seal, and How.

SECONDLY, Another Effect of the Holy Spirit as the Comforter of the Church, is that by him Believers are sealed, 2 Cor. 1. 21, 22. He who anointed us is God, who hath also sealed us. And how this is done, the same Apostle declares, Eph. 1. 13. In whom also after the believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise. And Chap. 4. 30. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the Day of Redemption. In the first place, it is expressly said, that we are sealed with the Spirit, whereby the Spirit himself is expressed as this Seal, and not any of his especial Operations; as he is also directly said himself to be the Pledge of our Inheritance. In the latter, the Words are, [Greek or Hebrew], in whom, in and by the receiving of whom, ye are sealed. Wherefore no especial Act of the Spirit, but only an especial Effect of his Communication unto us, seems to be intended hereby.

SECONDLY, Another Effect of the Holy Spirit as the Comforter of the Church, is that by him Believers are sealed, 2 Cor. 1. 21, 22. He who anointed us is God, who hath also sealed us. And how this is done, the same Apostle declares, Eph. 1. 13. In whom also after ye believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise. And Chap. 4. 30. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the Day of Redemption. In the first place, it is expresly said, that we are sealed with the Spirit, whereby the Spirit himself is expressed as this Seal, and not any of his especial Operations; as he is also directly said himself to be the Pledge of our Inheritance. In the latter, the Words are, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in whom, in and by the receiving of whom, ye are sealed. Wherefore no especial Act of the Spirit, but only an especial Effect of his Communication unto us, seems to be intended hereby.