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BY THE REV. WILLIAM H. GOOLD,
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
nNETMATOAOriA'
A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Chap. p^nj.
Prefatory Note by the Editor, ...... 2
To the Readers, ........ 5
BOOK I. I. — General Principles concerning the Holy Spirit and His Work. — 1 Cor. xii. 1 opened— nv£u^«T;«a, spiritual gifts — Their grant unto, use and abuse in, that churcli— Jesus, how called " anathema"— Impiety of the Jews— How called " Lord" — The foundation of church oider and woi'ship- In what sense we ai'e enabled by the Spirit to call Jesus " Lord "—The Holy Spirit the author of all gifts— Why called " God" and "Lord" — General distribution of spiritual gifts— Proper end of their communication— Nine sorts of gifts— Abuse of them in the church — Their tendency unto peace and order— General design of the ensuing dis- course concerning the Spirit and his dispensation— Importance of the doctrine concerning the Spirit of God and his operations — Reasons here- of—Promise of the Spirit to supply the absence of Christ, as to his hu- man nature— Concernment thereof— Work of the Spirit in the ministra- tion of the gospel— All saving good communicated unto us and wrought in us by him— Sin against the Holy Ghost irremissible— False pretences unto the Spirit dangerous— Pretences unto the Spirit of prophecy under the Old Testament— Two sorts of false prophets : the first ; the second sort — Pretenders under the New Testament— The rule for the trial of such pretenders, 1 John iv. 1-3— Rules to this purpose under the Old and New Testaments compared— A false spirit, set up against the Spirit of God, examined— False and noxious opinions concerning the Spirit, and how to be obviated— Reproaches of the Spirit and his work— Princi- plesand occasions of the apostasy of churches under the law and gospel — Dispensation of the Spirit not confined to the first ages of the church — The great necessity of a diligent inquiry into the things taught con- cerning the Spirit of God and his work, . . . .15
IL— The Name and Titles of the Holy Spirit.— Of the name of the Holy Spirit— Various uses of the words till and ^nu/^a — rn^ for the wind or any thing invisible with a sensible agitation, Amos iv. 13— Mistakes of the ancients rectified by Hierom— tim metaphorically for vanity, meto- nymically for the part or quarter of any thing; for our vital breath, the rational soul, the aifections, angels good and bad — Ambiguity from the use of the word, how to be removed— Rules concerning the Holy Spirit — The name " Spirit," how peculiar and appropriate unto him— Why he is called the "Holy Spirit"— Whence called the "Good Spirit," the "Spirit of God," the "Spirit of the Son'— Acts ii. 33, 1 Pet. i. 10, 11, explained— 1 John iv. 3, vindicated, . ... 47
III— Divine Nature and Personality of the Holy Spirit Proved and Vin- dicated.—Ends of our consideration of the dispensation of the Spirit — Principles premised thereunto— The nature of God the foundation of all religion — Divine revelation gives the rule and measure of religious wor-
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ship— God hath revealed himself as three in one— Distinct actings and operations ascribed unto these distinct persons ; therefore the Holy Spirit a divine distinct person — Double opposition to the Holy Spirit — By some his personality granted and his deity denied— His personality denied by the tSocinians— Proved against them— The open vanity of their pre- tences—Matt, xxviii, 19, pleaded — Appearance of the Spirit under the shape of a dove explained and improved — His appearance as fire opened — His personal subsistence proved — Personal properties assigned unto him— Understanding — Argument from hence pleaded and vindicated — A wili — John iii. 8, James iii. 4, cleared — Exceptions removed — Power — Other personal ascriptions to him, with testimonies of them, vindicated and ex^.-lained, . . . . . . . .64
IV. — Peculiar Works of the Holt Spirit in the First or Old Creation.— Things to be observed in divine operations— The works of God, how as- cribed absolutely unto God, and how distinctly to each person— The rea- son hereof— Perfecting acts in divine works ascribed unto the Holy Spirit, and why— Peculiar works of the Spirit with respect unto the old creation — The parts of the old creation— Heaven and its host — What the host of heaven — The host of the earth— The host of heaven completed by the Spirit— And of the earth — His moving on the old creation, Ps. civ. 30 — The creation of man ; the work of the Spirit therein — The work of the Spirit in the preservation of all things when created, natural and moral— Farther instances thereof, in and out of the church — Work of the Spirit of God in the old creation, why spai'ingly delivered, . 92
V. — Way and Manner of the Divine Dispensation of the Holt Spirit. — Dispensation of the Spirit to be learned from the Scripture only — Gene- ral adjuncts thereof — The administration of the Spirit and his own ap- plication of himself to his work, how expressed — The Spirit, how and in what sense given and received — What is included in the giving of the Spirit; what in receiving of him— Privilege and advantage in receiving the Spirit — How God is said to send the Spirit — What is included in sending— How God ministers the Spirit— How God is said to put his Spirit on us— What is included in that expression— The Spirit, how poured out — What is included and intended herein — The w.-iys of the Spirit's application of himself unto his Yiovk—^\s proceeding from Father and Son explained — How he comeih unto us — His falling on men— His resting — How and in what sense he is said to dejMrt from any pei"son— Of the distributions of the Holy Ghost, Heb. ii. 4 — Exposition of them vindicated, ........ 105