have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever." "And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." "And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son.". "I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.-The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name." "When the Comforter is come-he shall testify of me." "When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth." "If I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart I will send him unto you." "This spoke he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified." In his first interview with the disciples after his resurrection," he breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." "He showed himself alive after his passion; --and being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."*

Zech. 12. 10. John 7. 38, 39. 16. 7, 13. and 20. 22. Acts 1.

Isai. 59. 20, 21. Joel 2. 28, 29. and 14. 16, 17, 26. and 15. 26. and 3-5.. 2 Cor. 3. 6, 8. Gal. 3. 13, 14, 16.

When Christ" ascended on high" he "received gifts for men, that the Lord God might dwell among them." The chief of these was the holy Spirit, which he poured out upon his disciples on the day of Pentecost. To show once for all that he had sent down this Agent to dwell with men and statedly to attend the Gospel, he imparted to the first disciples the miraculous powers of the Spirit, and thus made a public and convincing display of the connexion of the Spirit with the Gospel and with the Church. For where he bestowed miraculous powers he generally exerted sanctifying grace; and the former operation was such an evidence of the latter, that the apostles considered it a sufficient ground for baptism. Thus Peter at the house of Cornelius: "Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptised, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" And when he told the story to the synod of Jerusalem, he said, "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost even as he did unto us; and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith." This same Peter, standing up on the day of Pentecost, said, "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear." At another time," when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were all assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." On the converts at Samaria the apostles "laid-their hands,-and they received the Holy Ghost." At Damascus, "Ananias-said, Brother Saul, the Lord-hath sent me that thou mightest

receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost."

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a later period still, "the churches [had] rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified, and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied." At Antioch in Pisidia, 'the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.""The Holy Ghost came on" the disciples of Ephesus "when Paul laid his hands upon them."*

It is remarkable that the sanctifying Spirit is not presented as one standing and offering truth to persuade, but as an effusion, sometimes dissolving, sometimes refreshing or fructifying, sometimes cleansing, sometimes baptising and consecrating. "I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel.” "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring." "The palaces shall be forsaken-until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high and the wilderness be a fruitful field." "According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour." "I indeed have baptised you with water, but he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost." "For by one Spirit are we all baptised into one body,and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." Sometimes the Spirit is the oil that feeds the perpetual lamps. "And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said,

*Ps. 68. 18. Acts 2. 1-4, 33. and 4. 31. and 8. 15-17. and 9. 17, 31. and 13. 52. and 15. 8, 9. and 19. 2—6.

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I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps which were upon the top thereof; and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side thereof.—— Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of

hosts."

This is the general account. Come now to something a little more particular. "Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit." "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." "Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?" "According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you." "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." "It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing."" Hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they

* Isai. 32. 14, 15. and 44. 3. Ezek. 39. 29. Mar. 1. 8. 1 Cor. 12. 13. Tit. 3. 5, 6.

Zech. 4. 2-6.

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that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,

Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.-Ourselves also which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves.-The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God." Is this the Spirit merely suggesting truth, and not effectually awakening desires? "My conscience also bearing me witness in, the Holy Ghost." "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things." "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost." 'And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by

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