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

(§ 7.) THE Recovery and Return of the People from the Captivity of Babylon, was a Type of the Spiritual Redemption of the Church by Jesus Christ: And how God effected that as a Type hereof, he declares, Zech. 4. 6. Not by Army, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts; so much more was this work to be effected. So after his Resurrection the Lord Christ tells his Apostles that they were to be his Witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the Earth, that is, all the World over, Acts 1. 8. But how shall they be able so to bear Testimony unto them, as that their witness shall be received and become effectual? Saith he, Ye shall receive power for this end; I have given you Authority to Preach the Word before, and now I will give you such an Ability for it, as none shall be able to withstand or resist; and this is after ⟨p. 209⟩the Holy Ghost is come upon you, that is in the Communication of these Gifts whereby you may be enabled unto your work. In them consisted that Mouth and Wisdom which he promised he would give them, which all their Adversaries were not able to gainsay or resist. Luke 21. 15. Wherefore, that which I shall close this Discourse withal, shall be a brief endeavour to declare how these Gifts were the Spiritual Powers of the Gospel unto all the ends we have before mentioned as designed by Jesus Christ; whence it will appear how little there was of the Wisdom, Skill, Power or Authority of Men in the whole work of propagating the Gospel, and planting the Church of Christ, as we shall afterwards manifest, how by the Dispensation of the other more ordinary Gifts of the Spirit both the Gospel and the Church are continued and preserved in the World.

(§ 7.) THE Recovery and Return of the People from the Captivity of Babylon, was a Type of the Spiritual Redemption of the Church by Jesus Christ: And how God effected that as a Type hereof, he declares, Zech. 4. 6. Not by Army, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts; so much more was this work to be effected. So after his Resurrection the Lord Christ tells his Apostles that they were to be his Witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the Earth, that is, all the World over,