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We read in the holy story, that God^a took of the spirit which was upon Moses, and gave it unto the seventy Elders; that they might ⟨p. 18⟩bear the burden of the people with him, and that he might not bear it, as before he had done, himself alone. It may be, his burden being thus lightened, the abilities that were left him for government were not altogether so great, as the necessity of his former employment required them to have been: and in that regard, what was given to his assistants, might perhaps be said to be taken from him. But we are sure the case was otherwise in him of whom now we speak: unto whom^b God did not thus give the Spirit by measure. And therefore although so many millions of believers do continually receive this^c supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; yet neither is that fountain any way exhausted, nor the plenitude of that well-spring of grace any whit impaired or diminished: it being Gods pleasure,^d That in him should all fullness dwell; and that^e of his fullness all we should receive, grace for grace. That as in the natural generation there is such a correspondence in all parts betwixt the begetter and the Infant begotten; that there is no member to be seen in the Father, but there is the like answerably to be found in the Child, although in a far less proportion; so it falleth out in this spiritual, that for every grace which in a most eminent manner is found in Christ, a like grace will appear in Gods Child, although in a far inferior degree; similitudes and likenesses being defined by the Logicians to be comparisons made in quality, and not in quantity.

We read in the holy story, that God^a took of the spirit which was upon Moses, and gave it unto the seventy Elders; that they might ⟨p. 18⟩