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

(§ 4.) 3dly, THIS presence of the Spirit is secured unto the Church by an Everlasting unchangeable Covenant, Isa. 59. 21. As for me, this is my Covenant with them, saith the Lord, my Spirit that is upon them, and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth, shall not depart out of thy Mouth, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds Seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. This is God's Covenant with the Gospel Church, to be erected then when the Redeemer should come out of Zion, and unto them that turn from Transgression in Jacob, ver. 20. This is a part of the Covenant that God hath made in Christ the Redeemer. And as the continuance of the Word unto the Church in all Ages is by this Promise secured, without which it would cease and come to nothing, seeing it is Built on the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Ephes. 2. 20. so is the presence of the Spirit in like manner secured unto it, and that on the same Terms with the Word, so as that if he be not present with it, all Covenant Relation between God and it doth cease; where this promise doth not take place, there is no Church, no Ordinance, no acceptable Worship, because no Covenant-Relation. In brief then, where there is no participation of the Promise of Christ to send the Spirit to abide with us always, no Interest in that Covenant, wherein God engageth that his Spirit shall not depart from us for ever; and so no ⟨p. 246⟩presence of Christ to make the Word and Ordinances of Worship living, useful, effectual in their Administration unto their proper Ends, there is no Church-State, whatever outward Order there may be.

(§ 4.) 3dly, THIS presence of the Spirit is secured unto the Church by an Everlasting unchangeable Covenant, Isa. 59. 21. As for me, this is my Covenant with them, saith the Lord, my Spirit that is upon them, and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth, shall not depart out of thy Mouth, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds Seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. This is God's Covenant with the Gospel Church, to be erected then when the Redeemer should come out of Zion, and unto them that turn from Transgression in Jacob, ver. 20. This is a part of the Covenant that God hath made in Christ the Redeemer. And as the continuance of the Word unto the Church in all Ages is by this Promise secured, without which it would cease and come to nothing, seeing it is Built on the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets,