2. The Spirit of God, John 16. 13. [Greek or Hebrew], He shall guide the way to you in all truth; Rom. 8. 14. as many [Greek or Hebrew], as are led, driven either as a flock by the shepherd, or as a ship by the wind, are the children of God. The Spirit is a Pilot and a Steersman acting and moving in the Saints, directing, counselling, inspiring in all actings: its easy to know the spirits leading by what it drives at,1 Rev. 16. 13. For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which go forth to the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. This he says of the three unclean spirits like frogs (the Popes firebrands and incendiaries) who came out of the mouth of the Dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false Prophet. What hellish influences must drive these men delivered up to such leaders? There is a spirit who rules in the children of disobedience, Satan the Prince of the air, Eph. 2. The spirit of giddiness and error leads Egypt, Isa. 19. 14. The spirit of whoredom, Hos. 4. 12. Hos. 5. 4. that inclines to Idolatry. The spirit of lying, 1 Kin. 22. 22. The spirit of error, 1 John 4. 6. The spirit of unbelief that was in the ten spies led and drive many, Num. 14. 24. But Caleb had another spirit with him. It's the sin of the time we live in, to persecute & resist the spirit; and the more outlettings of the spirit that appear in Steven, the more the Jews set themselves against him. For Acts 7. 27. they cry out with a loud voice, and stop their ears, and run upon him, when he saw heaven open, being full of the Holy Ghost; he was before full of the Holy Ghost, but now there is a high spring-tide, and a new mighty flowing of the influences of the Holy Ghost; and the height of goodness and excellent actings of the spirit, draws out their malice to the full, as Steven told them, 51. Ye have always resisted the Holy Ghost. [Greek or Hebrew], is to fall cross with all the might in a hostile way upon the spirit. O tremble to hate and fight against the marrow of godliness, and to mock the spirit! O that it were not this day the sin of Scotland, and of the generality of the Ministers of the Gospel in this Land! In the Prelates times the seekers of ⟨p. 168⟩God met not with such bitterness as even now they meet with.
2. The Spirit of God, John 16. 13. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He shall guide the way to you in all truth; Rom. 8. 14. as many 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as are led, driven either as a flock by the shepherd, or as a ship by the wind, are the children of God. The Spirit is a Pilot and a Steersman acting and moving in the Saints, directing, counselling, enspiring in all actings: its easie to know the spirits leading by what it drives at,1 Rev. 16. 13. For they are the spirits of divels working miracles, which go forth to the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world to gather them to the battel of that great day of God Almighty. This he says of the three unclean spirits like frogs (the Popes firebrands and incendiaries) who came out of the mouth of the Dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false Prophet. What hellish influences must drive these men delivered up to such leaders? There is a spirit who rules in the children of disobedience, Satan the Prince of the air, Eph. 2. The spirit of giddinesse and errour leads Egypt, Isa. 19. 14. The spirit of whoredome, Hos. 4. 12. Hos. 5. 4. that inclines to Idolatry. The spirit of lying, 1 Kin. 22. 22. The spirit of errour, 1 John 4. 6. The spirit of unbelief that was in the ten spies led and drive many, Num. 14. 24. But Caleb had another spirit with him. It's the sin of the time we live in, to persecute & resist the spirit; and the more outlettings of the spirit that appear in Steven, the more the Jewes set themselves against him. For Acts 7. 27. they cry out with a loud voice, and stop their eares, and run upon him, when he saw heaven open, being full of the Holy Ghost; he was before full of the Holy Ghost, but now there is a high spring-tide, and a new mighty flowing of the influences of the Holy Ghost; and the height of goodnesse and excellent actings of the spirit, drawes out their malice to the full, as Steven told them, 51. Ye have alwayes resisted the Holy Ghost. , is to fall crosse with all the might in a hostile way upon the spirit. O tremble to hate and fight against the marrow of godliness, and to mock the spirit! O that it were not this day the sin of Scotland, and of the generality of the Ministers of the Gospel in this Land! In the Prelates times the seekers of
- 1The spirit of the world in the Antichrist and divers other spirits lead the world.
