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

the latter by the Communication of Gifts unto the Guides, Rulers, Officers and Ministers of it, with all its Members according unto its Place and Capacity. Suppose then his Communication of Internal Saving Grace to cease, and the Church must absolutely cease as to its Internal Form. For we are united unto the Lord Christ as our Mystical Head by the Spirit, the one and self-same Spirit dwelling in Him and them that do believe. Union unto Christ without Saving Grace, or Saving Grace without the Holy Spirit, are Strangers unto the Gospel and Christian Religion. So is it to have a Church that is Holy and Catholic, which is not united unto Christ as a Mystical Head. Wherefore the very Being of the Church, as unto its Internal Form, depends on the Spirit in his Dispensation of Grace, which if you suppose an Intercision of the Church, must cease. It hath the same dependence on him as to its outward Form and Profession upon his Communication of Gifts. For no Man can call Jesus Lord, or profess Subjection and Obedience unto him in a due manner, but by the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. ⟨p. 250⟩12. 3. Suppose this Work of his to cease, and there can be no Professing Church. Let Men mould and cast themselves into what Order and Form they please, and let them pretend that their Right and Title unto their Church Power and Station is derived unto them from their Progenitors or Predecessors, if they are not furnished with the Gifts of the Spirit to enable their Guides unto Gospel Administrations, they are no orderly Gospel Church. Wherefore,

the latter by the Communication of Gifts unto the Guides, Rulers, Officers and Ministers of it, with all its Members according unto its Place and Capacity. Suppose then his Communication of Internal Saving Grace to cease, and the Church must absolutely cease as to its Internal Form. For we are united unto the Lord Christ as our Mystical Head by the Spirit, the one and self-same Spirit dwelling in Him and them that do believe. Union unto Christ without Saving Grace, or Saving Grace without the Holy Spirit, are Strangers unto the Gospel and Christian Religion. So is it to have a Church that is Holy and Catholick, which is not united unto Christ as a Mystical Head. Wherefore the very Being of the Church, as unto its Internal Form, depends on the Spirit in his Dispensation of Grace, which if you suppose an Intercision of the Church, must cease. It hath the same dependance on him as to its outward Form and Profession upon his Communication of Gifts. For no Man can call Jesus Lord, or profess Subjection and Obedience unto him in a due manner, but by the Holy Ghost,