1996. I Cor. vi, 11. But ye are fanctifiedby the Spirit of our God.

1997.

1098.

1099.

IICO.

1101.

1102.

19. Know ye not, that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghoft, which is in you, which ye have of God?

See N° 66.

xii, 3. No man speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jefus accurfed; and no man can say that Jefus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

13. For by One Spirit are we

all baptized into one body,
→→→→ and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit.

2 Cor. i, 22. The Earneft of the Spirit in our Hearts.

iii, 3 Ye are the epistle of Chrift, miniftred by us, written not with Ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the Heart.

vi, 6. By Kindness, by the Holy Ghoff, by Love unfeigned, c.

1103. - Gal. v, 5. For we, through the Spirit,

wait for the hope of Righteousnefs, by

Faith.

1104 Gal. v, 16.

bye fhall not fulfill the Luft of the Flefb.

1105.

Walk in the Spirit, and

22. But the Fruit of the Spi

rit, is Love, jy, Peace, &c.

1106. Ephef. v, 9. The Fruit of the Spirit, is in all Goodness, &c.

1107.

18. Be not drunk with Wine, awwherein is Excefs; but be filled with the

Spirit.

1108.

vi, 18. Praying always with all Prayer and Supplication, in the Spirit.

1109. Phil. i, 19. This fhall turn to my Sal

vation, through

dya rit of Jefus Chrift.

the Supply of the Spi

ii, I. If there be――any Fel

Lowfbip of the Spirit.

III, Col i, 8. Who alfo declared unto us your Love in the Spirit.

1112. 1 Thef. i, 6. Ghoft.

With Joy of the Holy

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2 Thef

1113. 2 Thef. ii, 13. To Salvation, through Sanctification of the Spirit.

1114. 1 Tim. iv, 12. In Charity, in Spirit, in Faith.

of Power,

1.115. 2 Tim i, 7. The Spirit-
and of Love, and of a found Mind.

1116.

14. That good thing which was

committed unto thee, keep, by the Holy Ghoft, which dwelleth in us.

1117. Tit. iii, 5. Saved us, by the Washing of Regeneration, and Renewing of the Holy

Ghoft.

1118. 1 Pet. i, 2. Through Sanctification of the Spirit, unto Obedience.

1119.

22. Seeing you have purified your Souls in obeying the Truth, through the Spirit.

1120. Jude 20. Praying, in the Holy Ghoft.

SECT. IV.

The Paffages, wherein are contained the Other Highest Expreffions concerning Him in the New Teftament.

1121.

M

AT. xii; 31, 32. The Blafphemy against the Holy Ghoft, fhall not be forgiven unto Men. And whofoever speaketh a Word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; But whofoever speaketh against the Holy Ghoft, it fhall not be foringiven him, neither in This World, neither in the World to come.

By the Holy Ghost here, 'tis evident cannot be meant the Perfon, but the Works of the Holy Ghoft: For no reason can be given, why Blafphemy against the Perfon of the Spirit of God, fhould be more unpardonable, than Blafphemy against the Perfon of the Son of God, or than Blafphemy against the Perfon of God [the Father himself. But the Works of the Spirit,being the greateft and laft means of Conviction,that God ever intended to afford men; the rejecting of them, was confequently the higheft Aggravation of Guilt. Further; it is remarkable, that neither here, neither in any other place of Scripture, is there any mention made of any SIN against the Holy Ghoft, but only of a BLASPHEMY against the Holy Ghoft: Which being a contemptuous Reviling of our Saviour's greatest Miracles, than which no ftronger Conviction could be offered men; they who were guilty of This Blafphemy, were juftly declared incorrigible and unpardonable: Not upon Account of that fingle

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Adt, but of that incurable Temper, whereof That Act,
in those Circumftances, was an evident Sign; As ap-
pears from our Saviour's Similitude in the following
Verfe, (ver. 33,) of a corrupt Tree being known by
its Fruit. Now that This fevere declaration of our
Saviour, concerned Thofe only, who Saw his Mira-
cles, and obftinately rejected That greatest Evidence of
his Miffion, and maliciously afcribed them to the Power
of the Devil; appears likewife, from what St Mark
adds, cb. iii, 30, that he fpake this, BECAUSE
they faid, he hath an unclean Spirit. And forafmuch
as Many even of the Pharisees themselves, who were
at all times our Saviours greatest Enemies, (and whom
he here mentions as having Spoken against the Son of
Man,) did yet repent afterwards and were bap-
tized; and it does not appear that Any, who offered
themselves, were ever rejected from Baptifm; 'tis not
improbable but This fevere declaration was meant
only against Thefe Particular Pharifees, whofe incor-
rigible Malice difcovered it felf in This particular
Blafphemy against fo evident a Miracle, and to whom
therefore our Saviour might judicially refolve to af-
ford no further means of Conviction: And then, the
Meaning of the Words will be explained by those
parallel places, Joh. x, 26, and ch. viii; 21, 24,
Te are not of my Sheep;
ye fhall die in your Sins.

1122. Luke i, 35. The Holy Ghoft, Power of the Higheft.

the

1123, John xiv, 17. The Spirit of Truth, whom the World cannot receive.

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1124.

XV, 26. The Spirit of Truth,

which proceedeth from the Father.

John