Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Again, think not that it will excuse you to say, that whatsoever your actions be, yet you have good hearts: for you must know that your hearts are far worse then your actions, as I said before: for if you had the Spirit: it would not be idle in you. but as it makes the heart holy, so it sends forth holy speeches and actions in the life.

The working power of the spirit is excellently set forth in that passage between Elijah, and Elisha: in the Kings: It is said that Elijah cast his mantle about Elisha: ¹presently he cries out, let me go first (saith he) and take leave of my Father, and then I will go with thee. Elijah might well have reasoned thus with him: what have I done unto thee, or what have I spoken unto thee, that thou shouldest thus reply unto me, as if I tied thee unto the contrary? Said I any such word unto thee that thou mightest not go? But there was a necessity laid upon Elisha by the spirit to go with him, and therefore he could not choose but break out into these words: That is, the spirit now entered into his heart, that he was not now his own man, he must now go where the spirit would have him, and do that which the spirit bid him: and so we see in Act. 4. 20. ⟨p. 106⟩²when the Jews came to Peter, and commanded that he should not preach Christ unto them, he answereth that he cannot choose, but he must preach Christ; And in the beginning of the chapter you shall see the reason of it. They had received the holy Ghost, and they spake boldly: Therefore you see, the spirit is not idle, but marvellous working, and operative. Therefore examine what power you have, what actions you have, and what fruit you bring forth:

The working power of the spirit is excellently set forth in that passage between Eliah, and Elizeus: in the Kings: It is said that Eliah cast his mantle about Elizeus: