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

FOURTHLY, The way whereby we come to have an Interest in Christ, and thereby a right unto the Inheritance, is by the Participation of the Spirit of Christ, as the Apostle fully declares, Rom. 8. 14, 15, 16, 17. For it is by the Spirit of Adoption, the Spirit of the Son, that we are made Children. Now saith the Apostle, If we are Children, then Heirs, Heirs of God, and joint Heirs with Christ. Children are Heirs unto their Father. And those who are Children of God are Heirs of that Inheritance which God hath provided for his Children. Heirs of God. And all the good things of Grace and Glory which Believers are made Partakers of in this World, or that which is to come, are called their Inheritance, because they are the Effects of free, gratuitous Adoption. They are not things that themselves have purchased, bargained for, earned or merited, but an Inheritance depending on and following solely upon their free, gratuitous Adoption. But how can they become Heirs of God, seeing God hath absolutely appointed the Son alone to be Heir of all things, Heb. 1. 2. He was the Heir unto whom the whole Inheritance belonged. Why, saith the Apostle, by the Participation of the Spirit of Christ, we are made joint Heirs with Christ. The whole Inheritance as unto his own Personal Right was entirely his by the free Donation of the Father, all Power in Heaven and Earth being given unto him. But if he will take others into a joint Right with him, he must purchase it for them, which he did accordingly.

FOURTHLY, The way whereby we come to have an Interest in Christ, and thereby a right unto the Inheritance, is by the Participation of the Spirit of Christ, as the Apostle fully declares, Rom. 8. 14, 15, 16, 17. For it is by the Spirit of Adoption, the Spirit of the Son, that we are made Children. Now saith the Apostle, If we are Children, then Heirs, Heirs of God, and joynt Heirs with Christ. Children are Heirs unto their Father. And those who are Children of God are Heirs of that Inheritance which God hath provided for his Children. Heirs of God. And all the good things of Grace and Glory which Believers are made Partakers of in this World, or that which is to come, are called their Inheritance, because they are the Effects of free, gratuitous Adoption. They are not things that themselves have purchased, bargained for, earned or merited, but an Inheritance depending on and following solely upon their free, gratuitous Adoption. But how can they become Heirs of God, seeing God hath absolutely appointed the Son alone to be Heir of all things,