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

FOURTHLY, It being God's Seal, it must also have two Ends designed in it. (1) God's owning of him to be his. Him hath God the Father Sealed unto this End, that all may know and take notice of his Owning and Approbation of him. He would have him not looked on as one among the rest of them that dispensed Spiritual things, but as him whom he had singled out and peculiarly marked for himself. And therefore this he publicly and gloriously testified at the Entrance; and again, a little before the finishing of ⟨p. 85⟩his Ministry: For upon his Baptism there came a Voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, Matth. 3. 17. which was nothing but a public Declaration that this was He whom God had Sealed, and so owned in a peculiar manner. And this Testimony was afterwards renewed again at his Transfiguration in the Mount, Matth. 17. 5. Behold a Voice out of the Cloud, which said, This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased, hear ye him: This is he whom I have Sealed. And this Testimony is pleaded by the Apostle Peter, us that whereinto their Faith in him as the Sealed One of God, was resolved, 2 Pet. 1. 17, 18. (2) To manifest that God would take Care of him, and preserve him in his Work unto the End, Isa. 42.

FOURTHLY, It being God's Seal, it must also have two Ends designed in it. (1) God's owning of him to be his. Him hath God the Father Sealed unto this End, that all may know and take notice of his Owning and Approbation of him. He would have him not looked on as one among the rest of them that dispensed Spiritual things, but as him whom he had singled out and peculiarly marked for himself. And therefore this he publickly and gloriously testified at the Entrance; and again, a little before the fininishing of ⟨p. 85⟩his Ministry: For upon his Baptism there came a Voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased,