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The first sign whereby you shall know whether you have the sanctifying spirit or no is this: if you have the ¹sanctifying spirit you will be full of fire; That is, it will fill you with spiritual heat and zeal, now if you find this in you, then it is the sanctifying spirit and therefore John saith of Christ in Matth. 3. That he will baptize them with the spirit and with fire; That is, he will baptize them ²with that spirit, whose nature is as fire, that will fill you full of spiritual heat and zeal, and therefore it is said in Acts 2. that they had tongues as of fire, And again it is ³said, That the Apostles were stirred up with boldness to speak; That is, when they saw God dishonoured, this spirit kindled a high zeal in them, that is, set their hearts on fire: it set their tongues on fire. when the spirit enters into the heart of a Christian, it will fill it full of zeal: the heart, the tongue, the hands, the feet and all the rest of the parts will be full of the heat of the spirit: for it is impossible that any man should have true zeal except he have the spirit. Therefore it is said that they spake with New tongues us the spirit gave them utterance, that is they spake with a great deal of zeal of another nature and quality then they did before.

The first sign whereby you shall know whether you have the sanctifying spirit or no is this: if you have the ¹sanctifying spirit you will be full of fire; That is, it will fill you with spiritual heat and zeal, now if you find this in you, then it is the sanctifying spirit and therefore Iohn saith of Christ in Matth. 3. That he will baptize them with the spirit and with fire; That is, he will baptize them ²with that spirit, whose nature is as fire, that will fill you full of spiritual heat and zeal, and therefore it is said in