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

or those whose miserable Condition is described by the Apostle, Heb. 6. 4, 5, 6. But one way or other these Gifts may be utterly lost or taken away from them, ⟨p. 131⟩who have once received them, and that whether they be Ordinary or Extraordinary. There is no kind of them, no degree of them, that can give us any Security, that they shall be always continued with us, or at all beyond our diligent Attendance unto their Use and Exercise. With Saving Grace it is not so. It is indeed subject unto various Decays in us; and it's thriving or flourishing in our Souls, depends upon and answers unto our diligent Endeavour in the use of all means of Holiness, ordinarily, 2 Pet. 1. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. For besides that, no Man can have the least Evidence of any thing of this Grace in him, if he be totally negligent in it's Exercise and Improvement; so no Man ought to expect that it will thrive or abound in him, unless he constantly and diligently attend unto it, and give up himself in all things to it's Conduct. But yet as to the continuance of it in the Souls of the Elect, as to the Life and Being of it's Principle, and principal Effect in habitual Conformity unto God and his Will, it is secured in the Covenant of Grace.

or those whose miserable Condition is described by the Apostle, Heb. 6. 4, 5, 6. But one way or other these Gifts may be utterly lost or taken away from them, ⟨p. 131⟩who have once received them, and that whether they be Ordinary or Extraordinary. There is no kind of them, no degree of them, that can give us any Security, that they shall be always continued with us, or at all beyond our diligent Attendance unto their Use and Exercise. With Saving Grace it is not so. It is indeed subject unto various Decays in us; and it's thriving or flourishing in our Souls, depends upon and answers unto our diligent Endeavour in the use of all means of Holiness, ordinarily, 2 Pet. 1. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. For besides that, no Man can have the least Evidence of any thing of this Grace in him, if he be totally negligent in it's Exercise and Imyrovement; so no Man ought to expect that it will thrive or abound in him, unless he constantly and diligently attend unto it, and give up himself in all things to it's Conduct. But yet as to the continuance of it in the Souls of the Elect, as to the Life and Being of it's Principle, and principal Effect in habitual Conformity unto God and his Will, it is secured in the Covenant of Grace.