Dan, ix. 24 opened — Rom. viii. 34, deliverance from all sin, how by the death of Christ— The law innovated in respect of the elect — The vindictive justice of God satisfied by the deatli of Christ — How that is done — Wherein satisfaction doth consist ; absolute, not conditional — The law, how fulfilled in the death of Christ — ■ The truth of God thereby accomplished; his distributive justice ensiaged— Observa- tions for the clearing of the former assertions— Whether any one for whom Christ died may die in sin- The r.ecessity of faith and obedience — The reasons thereof — The end of faith aud holiness — Tiie first argument for the proof of the former asser- tions concerning the fruit and efficacy of tlie death uf Christ, Heb. ix. 14 — The second — The third — The compact between the Father and Son about the worli of media- tion— The fourth — Good things bestowed on tliem for whom Christ died antecedently to any thing spiritually good in them — The Spirit so bestowed, and faith itself— The close of those arguments— Inferences fiom the foregoing discourse— The efficacy of the death of Chiist, and the necessity of faith and obedience, reconciled — Sundry considerations unto that end proposed; 1. All spiritual mercies fruits of the death of Christ; 2. All the fruits of Christ's death laid up in the hand of God's righteous- ness; 3. The state of them for whom Christ died not actually changed by his death; 4. On what account believing is necessai'y — Christ secures the stability of the saints' abiding with God — What is contrary thereunto; how by him removed — The world overcome by Christ, as managed by Satan in an enmity to the saints— The complete victory of Christ over the devil— The ways whereby lie completes his conquest — The rule of Satan in respect of sinners twofold: 1. Over them; 2. In them— The title of Satan to a rule over men judged and destroyed by Christ — The exercise of all power taken from him — The works of Satan destroyed by Chi'ist in and for liis elect — The Holy Spiiit procured by the death of Christ— The giving of the Spii-it the great pi'O- mise of the new covenant — I'his farther proved and confirmed — The perpetual resi- dence of the Holy Spiiit with believers proved by the threefold testimony of Father, Son, and Spirit— Isa. lix. 21, the testimony of the Father proposed and vindicated — Our argument from hence farther cleared — This pi'omise absolute, not conditional — No condition rationally to be affixed to it — The import of these words. " As for me" — To whom this promise is made — That farther cleared — Not to all Israel according to the flesh — Mr G.'s objections answered — The testimonj' of the Son given to the perpetual abiding of the Spirit with believers — John xiv. Ki opened— The promise in those Avords equally Ijelonging to all believers — Mr G.'s objections answered — No promise of the Spirit abiding with believers on his principle allowed— The promise given to the apostles personallj-, yet given also to the whole church — Promises made to the church made to the individuals whereof it is constituted — The giving of this promise to all believers farther argued from the scope of the place, and vindicated from Mr G.'s exceptions — The third testimony, of the Holy Spirit himself, proposed to consideration — His testimony in sealing particularly considei'ed, 2 Cor. i. 22; Eph. i. 13, iv. 30— Of the nature and use of sealing amongst men — The end, aim, and use, of the sealing of the Holy Ghost — Mr G.'s objections and exceptions to our argu- ment from that sealing of the Spirit considered and removed — The same farther carried on, etc., ......... 288
CHAPTER VIII.
THE INDWELLING OF THE SPIRIT.
Entrance into the digression concerning the indwelling of the Spirit — The manner of the abode of the Spirit with them on whom he is bestowed — Grounds of the demonstra- tions of the truth — The indwelling of the Sjiirit proved from the promises of it — Express aijirmations of the same truth — Ps. li. 11, Rom. viii. 9, opened— Verses 11, 15; 1 Cor. ii. 12; Gal. iv. G, opened — 2 Tim. i. 14 — The Spirit in his indwelling, dis- tinguished from all his graces — Evasions removed — Rom. v. 5 explained — The Holy Ghost himself, not the grace of the Holy Ghost, there intended— Rom. viii. 11 opened — Gal V. 22 — A personality ascribed to the Spirit in his indwelling: 1 In personal appellations, 1 John iv. 4; John xiv. 16, 17 — 2. Personal operations— Rom. viii. 11, 16, explained — 3. Personal circumstances— The Spirit dwells in the saints as in a temple, 1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 19 — The indwelling of the Spirit farther demonstrated from the signal ettects ascribed in the Scripture to his so doing; as. 1. Union with Christ — Union with Christ, wherein it consistetli— Union with Christ by the indwelling of the same Spirit in him and us — This proved from, (1.) Scriptural declarations of it— 2 Pet. i. 4, how we are made partakers of the divine nature — Union expressed by eating the flesh and drinking the bloodof Christ— John vi. 56 opened — The prayer of our Saviour for the union of his disciples, John xvii. 21 — The union of the persons in the Trinity with themselves— (2.) Scriptural illustrations for the manifestation of union — The union of head and members, what it is, and wherein it doth consist — Of the union between husband and wife, and our union with Christ represented thereby — Of a tree and its branches— Life and quickening given by the indwelling Spirit, in quickening, life, and suitable operations — 2. Direction and guidance given by the indwelling Spirit— Guidance or direction twofold — 'L'he several ways wliereby the Spirit gives guidance and direction unto them in whom he dwells — The first way, by giving a new understanding, or a new spiritual light upon the rmderstanding —