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1104. Gal. v, 16. Walk in the Spirit, and ye fhall not fulfill the Luft of the Flefb.

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22. But the Fruit of the Spi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1115. 2 Tim. i, 7. The Spirit
and of Love, and of a sound Mind.

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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.

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

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

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

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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 forgiven 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 Ghost': 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 ingle

At, but of that incurable Temper, whereof That Act, in those Circumftances, was an evident Sign; As appears 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 Miracles, 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, ch. ii, 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 baptized; 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 incorrigible Malice difcovered it felf in This particular Blasphemy againft fo evident a Miracle, and to whom therefore our Saviour might judicially refolve to afford 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,

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

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1129. 1 Cor. ii; 10, II. The Spirit fearcheth all things, yea, the † deep things of God.

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For what man knoweth the things of a man,fave the Spirit of man which is in him? Even fo the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

The Mysteries of the Gofpel, mentioned Rom. xvi, 25: Ephef. i, 9; and iii; 3, 5, 9: Col. i, 26.

iii, 16. Ye are the Temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in

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