Rule 12.
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Rule 12.
Pray unto God,1 not only to give thee Spiritual eyes to see thy interest in the Promises, but a Spiritual hand, to enable thee to apply them to thine own ⟨p. 208⟩soul in particular. By this spiritual hand, I mean, A Christ-appropriating Faith. Justifying Faith is (as it were) the hand of the soul, by which we appropriate Christ, and all the Promises, as belonging to us in particular. Now Faith is the gift of God. Pray for the Spirit of Faith. 2And for your encouragement, consider, that the Spirit is called,3 The Promise of the Father, and that holy Spirit of Promise: 4And God hath promised to give the Spirit to those who ask for it.5 If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him? The office of the holy Spirit is first to seal grace, and then to seal to grace: First, the Spirit sanctifieth us, then it witnesseth to our spirits, 6that we are sanctified. Pray therefore unto God that he would not only work grace in you, but witness unto the grace which he hath wrought. Pray for the sanctifying and ⟨p. 209⟩sealing work of the Spirit. That he would not only fit you to have an interest in the promises, but assure you of your interest in them.
Pray unto God,