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

(2) BECAUSE the Holy Spirit in this Condescension unto Office, acts for Christ and in his Name. So the Son acted for and in the Name of the Father, where he every where ascribed what he did unto the Father in a peculiar manner. The Word, saith he, which you hear, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me, John 14. 24. It is his originally and eminently, because as spoken by the Lord Christ, he was said by him to speak it. So are those Acts of the Spirit, whereby he comforteth Believers, the ⟨p. 8⟩Acts of Christ, because the Spirit speaketh and acteth for him, and in his Name.

(2) BECAUSE the Holy Spirit in this Condescention unto Office, acts for Christ and in his Name. So the Son acted for and in the Name of the Father, where he every where ascribed what he did unto the Father in a peculiar manner. The Word, saith he, which you hear, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me, John 14. 24. It is his originally and eminently, because as spoken by the Lord Christ, he was said by him to speak it. So are those Acts of the Spirit, whereby he comforteth Believers, the ⟨p. 8⟩Acts of Christ, because the Spirit speaketh and acteth for him, and in his Name.

(3) ALL those things, those Acts of Light, Grace and Mercy, whereby the Souls of the Disciples of Christ are comforted by the Holy Ghost, are the things of Christ, that is, especial Fruits of his Mediation. So speaketh our Saviour himself of Him and his Work; He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and show it unto you, John 16. 14. All that Consolation, Peace and Joy which he communicates unto Believers; yea, all that he doth in his whole Work towards the Elect, is but the effectual Communication of the Fruits of the Mediation of Christ unto them. And this is the first thing that constitutes the Office of the Comforter; this Work is committed and entrusted unto him in an especial manner, which in the infinite Condescension of his own Will, he takes upon him.