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Sermons . Eight discourses on several subjects (1734)
Sermons Eight discourses on several subjects - 1734 Author:John Sharp Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERM. XVIII. p. 446. Acts xiii. latter Part of ver. 48. as many as were ordained to eternal Life, believed. SERM. XIX. p. 470. S. Matt. xx. 16. So tbe... more » loft jhall befrjt, andthefrf1 lafl; for many be called, but few chofen. chapter{Section 4 DISCOURSE I. Concerning the Witnefs of the Spirit. Rom. VIII. 16. he Spirit itfelf beareth witnefs with our Spirit that we are the Children of God. HI S Paflagc is fomething difficult, and commonly not rightly underftood. For the clearing of which there are four Things to be done. I. To fhew what is meant by the Spirit. II. What is meant by the Children of God. III. What is meant by the Spirit's bearing witnefs with our Spirit. IV. How, or in what Senfe the Spirit beareth witnefs with our Spirit that are the Children of God. Vo L. V. chapter{Section 5The three firft of thefe Points are pretty obvious, fo that I need fpend no Time in krfiftirig- on them. iff. By the Spirit here is undoubtedly meant that Holy Spirit which our Lord promifed he would fend upon his Difciples, after he was afccnded into Heaven ; and which accordingly came upon them on the Pay of Pentecoft, and which from thense forward was to continue with the Church to the End of the World. This Spirit is here in the Text called the Spirit it Ji'lf, to reprefent Him as a Perfon, becaufe in the Verfe before theApoftle had ufed this Word Sprit in another Senfe, viz. for a State and s. Difpenfation. Te have nOt, fays he, received ''" the Spirit of Bondage again to jear, but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption: That is, ye are not now in the Jewiih Difpenfation, .which i's a Difpenfation of Servants, wherein ye' are left to your natural Fears but ye are in the Difpenfation of Sons: Ye may now call God Father For the Spirit it fil...« less