A ABE TREATISE OF THE HOLY GHOST: Wherein is proved, That the Spirit of GOD was in the PROPHETS and APOSTLES, and is in every True Believer, to the End of the World. By JOHN CENNICK, The Things of God knoweth no Man, but the LONDON: Printed and fold by J. LEWIS, in Bartholomer Clefe. 1742. e.3 THE PREFACE то тНЕ READ E R. T . HE Things that in this Book are treated of, concern eternally every Soul under Heaven; and it was because I faw fo many careless of thefe Things, and fo many utterly denying, and blafpheming the Work, and Gift of the Holy Ghost, that I wrote what the Lord Jefus bad fhewn to me; and because I would not speak of my felf, I have gathered from the Scriptures, the Teftimony of the former Saints, that Men might believe. I know no Argument, nor Reafon, nor even the Word itself will prevail with any, so as to make them believe, unless the Lord the Spirit Speak to the unclofing the blind Eyes of the Heart. If any therefore by Providence should take this Book into their Hands, this only would I afk of them, weigh not the Language nor Skill, in A 2 which iv The PREFACE. which it is wrote, for I own I am a Child, and Unlearned; but let your Soul go in before God in Prayer, and read impartially what I have faid, and judge by the Scriptures whether thefe Things are fo. Whatever I have taken from the Old, and New Testaments, or from the Fathers, Martyrs, and from the Doctrines and Prayers of the Church, (as far as I know) I have done faithfully: Neither am I confcious of having wrested any one Place to ferve the End for which I have used it. I have fimply fhewn how beautifully the Holy Scriptures harmonize in the Promife of the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and how every one who believeth not the fame is left inexcufable; being compaffed about with fo great a Cloud of Witnefjes. I fhall here add no more, but pray that dear Lamb of God, who enabled me to write, would enable you to underftand, that you may be converted, and be healed, and together with the Sons of God give Glory to the Father, and the Son, thro' the Holy Ghost, in a bleffed Eternity. This is indeed the Prayer of the Man whofe Eyes the Lord hath opened, to be a Witness of his Grace. Written at King fwood, JOHN CENNICK. A HOLY GHOST. HE Spirit fpeaketh exprefly that in the latter Days fome fall depart from the Faith, 1 Tim. iv. r. And now is that Scripture fulfilled. In every Place, and in every People, and efpecially in that Church which was lately Princefs of the Provinces, how well. may it be faid, How art thou fallen? The mott true, and holy Doctrines of the Gift, and Office of the Spirit of God, are altogether rejected of fome, and others who feem a little more obedient to the Word, allow the Prophets, and Apoftles indeed had the Spirit: But fince the first planting of the Gofpel (fay they) we have no Need of it, neither ought to expect it. Would to God they did know their Need of it, they would not reft till they had receiv'd it! Refides these, there are fonie People in the World who fay to much against looking to be infpired with the Holy Ghoft, that they condemn fuch who do look for it as pre A 3 fump |