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

4. THIS Inheritance as to our Interest therein lay under a Forfeiture; and as unto us it must be redeemed and purchased, or we can never be made Partakers of it. Wherefore the Lord Christ, who had a Right in his own Person unto the whole Inheritance by the Free Grant and Donation of the Father, yet was to redeem it from under the Forfeiture, and purchase the Possession of it for us: Thence is it called the Purchased Possession. How this Purchase was made, what made it necessary, by what means it was effected, are declared in the Doctrine of our Redemption by Christ, the Price which he paid, and the Purchase that he made thereby. And hereon the whole Inheritance is vested in the Lord Christ, not only as unto his own Person, and his Right unto the whole, but he became the great Trustee for the whole Church, and had their Interest in this Inheritance committed unto him also. No Man therefore can have a right unto this Inheritance, or to any part of it, not unto the least share of God's Creation here below, as a part of the rescued or purchased Inheritance, ⟨p. 97⟩but by Virtue of an Interest in Christ, and Union with him. Wherefore,

4. THIS Inheritance as to our Interest therein lay under a Forfeiture; and as unto us it must be redeemed and purchased, or we can never be made Partakers of it. Wherefore the Lord Christ, who had a Right in his own Person unto the whole Inheritance by the Free Grant and Donation of the Father, yet was to redeem it from under the Forfeiture, and purchase the Possession of it for us: Thence is it called the Purchased Possession. How this Purchase was made, what made it necessary, by what means it was effected, are declared in the Doctrine of our Redemption by Christ, the Price which he paid, and the Purchase that he made thereby. And hereon the whole Inheritance is vested in the Lord Christ, not only as unto his own Person, and his Right unto the whole, but he became the great Trustee for the whole Church, and had their Interest in this Inheritance committed unto him also. No Man therefore can have a right unto this Inheritance, or to any part of it, not unto the least share of God's Creation here below, as a part of the rescued or purchased Inheritance, ⟨p. 97⟩but by Vertue of an Interest in Christ, and Union with him. Wherefore,