A Body of Practical Divinity

2. We may know God is our God, by having the Earnest of his Spirit in our Hearts, 2 Cor. 1.22. God often gives the Purse to the Wicked, but the Spirit only to such as he intends to make his Heirs. 1. Have we had the Consecration of the Spirit? If we have not had the Sealing work of the Spirit, have we had the Healing work, 1 John 2.20. Ye have an Unction from the Holy One. The Spirit where it is, stamps the Impress of its own Holiness upon the Heart: It embroiders and bespangles the Soul, and makes it all glorious within. 2. Have we had the Attraction of the Spirit? Cant. 1.4. Draw me, we will run after thee. Hath the Spirit, by its magnetic Virtue, drawn our Hearts to God? Can we say, as Cant. 1.7. O thou whom my Soul loveth. Is God our Paradise of Delight? Our Segullah, or chief Treasure? Are our Hearts so chained to God, that no other Object can enchant us or draw us away from him? 3. Have we had the Elevation of the Spirit? Hath it raised our Hearts above the World? Ezek. 3.14. The Spirit lifted me up. Hath the Spirit made us superna anhelare, seek the things above, where Christ is? Though our Flesh is on Earth, is our Heart in Heaven? Though live here, trade above? Hath the Spirit thus lifted us up? By this we may come to know, that God is our God: Where God gives his Spirit for an Earnest, there he gives himself for a Portion.

2. We may know God is our God, by having the Earnest of his Spirit in our Hearts, 2 Cor. 1.22. God often gives the Purse to the Wicked, but the Spirit only to such as he intends to make his Heirs. 1. Have we had the Consecration of the Spirit? If we have not had the Sealing work of the Spirit, have we had the Healing work, 1 Iohn 2.20. Ye have an Unction from the Holy One. The Spirit where it is, stamps the Impress of its own Holiness upon the Heart: It embroiders and bespangles the Soul, and makes it all glorious within. 2. Have we had the Attraction of the Spirit?