BOOK II.
I. — Peculiar Operations of the Holt Spirit under the Old Testame.\t Pkeparatort for the New. — The work of the Spirit of God in the new creation ; by some despised— Works under the Old Testament prepara- tory to the new creation— Distribution of the works of the Spirit— The gift of prophecy ; the nature, use, and end of it— The beginning of pro- phecy—The Holy Spirit the only author of it — The name of a "prophet ; " its signification, and his work— Prophecy by iuspiiution ; whence so called — Proplicts, how acted by the Holy Ghost— The adjuncts of pro- phecy, or distinct ways of its communication — Of articulate voices — Dreams— Visions— Accidental adjuncts of prophecy- Symbolical actions —Local mutations — Whether unsauctified persons might have the gift of prophecy — The case of Balaam answered — Of writing the Scriptures — Three things required thereunto— Of miracles — Works of the Spirit of God in tlie improvement of the natural faculties of the minds of men in things political — In things moral — In things coi'poreal- In tilings intel- lectual and artificial — In preaching of the word, . . . 125
II. — General Dispensation of the Holt Spirit with respect unto the New Creation.— The work of the Spirit of God in the new creation proposed to consideration — The importance of the doctrine hereof- The plentiful effusion of the Spirit the gi'cat promise respecting the times of the New Testament — Ministry of the gospel founded on the promise of the Spirit — How this promise is made unto all believers — Injunction to all to pray for the Spirit of God — The solemn promit-e of Christ to send his Spirit when he left the world — The ends for which he promised him — The work of the new creation the princiiial means of th.e revelation of God and his glory— How this revelation is made in particular herein, . . 162
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ill.— WoBK OP THE Holy Spieit with respect ukto the Head of the New tlREATiON— The Hdsian Nature of Christ — The especial Trorks of the Holy Spirit in the new creation — His work on the human nature cf Christ — How this work could be, considering the union of the human nature unto and in the person of the Son of God— Assumption of the human natui'o into union, the only act of the pei'son of the Son towards it— Personal union the only necessary consequent of this assu;r.pticn — All other actings of the person of the Son in and on the human nature voluntary — The Holy Spirit the immediate efficient cause of all ilivine operations— He is the Spirit of the Son or of the Father— Hov/ all the works of the Trinity are undivided — The body of Christ formed in the Avomb by the Holy Ghost, but of the substance of the blessed Virgin ; why this was necessary- Christ not hence the Son of the Holy Ghost ac- cording to the human nature — Difference between the assumption of the human nature by the Son and the creation of it by the Holy GIk ist — The conception of Christ, how ascribed to the Holy Ghost, and how to the blessed Virgin — Reasons of the espousal of the blessed Virgin to Joseph before the conception of Cluist— The actual puiity and holiness of the soul and body of Christ, from his miraculous conception, . . It 'J
IV. — Work of the Holy Spirit in and on the Human Nature of Christ. — The actual sanctification of the human nature of Christ by the Holy Ghost — On what ground spotless and free fi'om sin — Positively endowed with all grace— Originallioliness and sanctification in Christ, how carried on by the Spirit — Exercise of grace in Christ by the rational faculties of his soul— Their improvement — Wisdom and knowledge, how increased objectively in the human nature of Christ— The anointing of Christ by the Holy Spirit with power and gifts— Collated eminently en him at his baptism— John iii. 34 explained and vindicated— Miraculous works wrought in Christ by the Holy Ghost — Christ guided, conducted, and supported by the Spirit in his whole work— Mark i. 12 opened — How the Lord Christ offered himself unto God through the eternal Spirit— His sanctification thereunto— Graces acting eminently therein — Love, zeal, submission, faith, and truth, all exercised therein — The work of the Spirit of God towards Christ whilst he was in the state of the dead ; in his resurrection and glorification — The office of the Spirit (o bear witness unto Christ, and its discharge — The trae way and means of coming unto the knowledge of Christ, with the necessity thereof— Danger of mistakes herein— What it is to love Christ as we ought, .... 163
V. — The General Work of the Holy Spirit in the New Creation with re- spect UNTO THE Members of that Body whereof Christ is the Head. — Christ the head of the new creation — Things premised in general unto the remaining work of the Spirit — Things presupposed unto the work of the Spirit towards the chm-ch — The love and grace of Father and Son — The whole work of the building of the church committed to the Holy Spirit — Acts ii. 33 opened— The foundation of the church in the promise of the Spirit, and its building by him alone — Christ present with his church only by his Spirit — Matt, xxviii. 19, 20 ; Acts i. 9, 10, iii. 21 ; Matt, xviii. 19, 20; 2 Cor. vi. IG; 1 Cor. iii. 16, compared— The Holy Spirit works the work of Christ— John xvi. 13-15 opened— The Holy Spirit the peculiar author of all grace — The Holy Spirit worketh all this according to his own will— 1. His will and pleasure is in all his works — 2. He works variously as to the kinds and degrees of his operations — How he may be resisted; how not— How the same work is ascribed unto the Spirit distinctly, and to others with him — The general heads of his operations towards the chui-ch, . . . . . .183