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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41790	A sigh for peace, or, The cause of division discovered wherein the great Gospel promise of the Holy Ghost, and the doctrine of prayer with imposition of hands, as the way ordained of God to seek for it, is asserted and vindicated, as the interest and duty of Christs disciples in general : in answer to a book intituled A search for schism / by Tho. Grantham ...	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.	1671 (1671)	Wing G1548; ESTC R39437	69,616	172

generally are to wait upon him for the reception thereof which way is the prayers of the Church performed by her Ministers with the laying on of hands and this as a principle of Christian Rel●gion belonging to them in the min●rity of their Christian state For explication of some parts of this Proposition it is meet that we shew first what we mean by the holy Ghost sith some now as well as heretofore Acts 19. either by reason of ignorance or some worse cause seem not to know whether there be any holy Ghost As if they had forgotten unto what they were Baptized Matth. 28. 19. By the Holy Ghost then we do not mean the Spirit of man in its most reformed and elevated state imaginable neither any created Spirit whatsoever But by the Holy Ghost we mean that Spirit by whose operation the Creation of the world was brought forth and formed Gen. 1. 2. Job 26. 13. And which knoweth all things even the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2. 10. And which is present every where Psal 139. 7 8. 9. Which Spirit we therefore believe to be one with the Father in nature and essence and therefore rightly said to be God Acts 5. 3 4 9. Secondly when we speak of mens receiving this holy Spirit we do not mean that he dwels in them essentially and personally for so they cannot contain him But he dwels in them by manifestation and operation By gifts according to 1 Cor. 12. By fruits according to 1 Cor. 13. 4 5 6 7. Galath 5. 22 23. And seeing the ground of this so much neglected truth the fourth principle of Christs doctrine lieth much in that great promise of the Spirit of God as the right of all the Disciples of Christ It behoveth that we open the nature of that glorious promise that being affected with the excellency and made sensible of the necessitie thereof we may the more devoutly seek for it not only in our private devotion but also in that special and publick way assigned in the holy Scripture for the obtaining so great a benefit Let it therefore first be considered that to be under the common influence and operation of the Spirit in the Ministery of the Word in order to conversion is one thing and the reception of the Holy Ghost as a Seal and confirmation of the souls of Christians as it is the earnest of their inheritance is another It is certain a person may be eminently under the operation of the Spirit in the first consideration and yet be a stranger to the reception of the Spirit in the other as appeared first in the Apostles themselves who though they were the persons which received the first fruits of the promised Holy Spirit yet were they for some time in the profession of the Gospel before they received it For they did not receive the Spirit of promise till after the Ascention of our Lord Acts 1. 4 5. But wait for the promise of the father which saith he ye have heard of me f●r John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many dayes hence John 7. 39. The Spirit was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified In like manner the Samaritans were converted from the errour of their way by the preaching of the word and became the Disciples of Christ and yet the Spirit of promise was faln on none of them Acts 8. 12 15 16. The Ephesians also believed in God after they heard the Gospel of their salvation But were not sealed with the holy Spirit of promise till afterward Eph. 1. 13 14. Agreeable hereunto is that question of the Apostle Acts 19. 2. Have ye received the Holy Ghost SINCE ye believed The persons to whom this question was put were believers in Christ yea Baptized believers Whence we are to note that Baptized Disciples have right to the promise of the Holy Ghost and indeed hence it was that Peter could so confidently and universally promise in the word of the Lord the gift of the Holy Ghost to every one that doth repent of their iniquities and are baptized in the name of the L●rd Jesus Christ for the remission of their sins Acts 2. 38. It appeareth therefore that persons may be under the operation of the spirit of God in the Ministerie of the Word to their illumination and conversion so far as to be brought into a certain state of Christianity for those that may be called Disciples are called Christians Acts 11. 26. and yet be without the enjoyment of the sealing and confirming spirit of promise in themselves which is yet more evident from John 14. 16 17. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter even the Spirit of TRUTH for he dwelleth WITH you and SHALL be IN you Note well this promise doth not respect the spirit as it worketh Miracles only but also and indeed much more the Spirit as it is a Leader into all Truuh called therefore the Spirit of Truth yea 't is the Spirit in such wise as sh●uld ●bide with and in the Saints for ever yea it is the Comforter or Spirit of Comfort and is therefore that gift of the Spirit which pertaineth to Christians generally Secondly That this sealing and confirming Spirit of promise belongs to Christs Disciples generally whether male or female I conceive some necessity to demonstrate because the Searchers to the intent that at the least they may exclude ●omen from the benefit of prayer with the laying on of Hands will not have them included in the word THEM Acts 8. 17. but if we prove that women have right to the promise equally with men we shall not at all fear the trifling demands of the Searchers in their 29 Querie which only serves to shew the weakness of their cause for it seems if it be true that women as well as men had Hands imposed on them with Prayer by the Apostles for the Holy Spirit then their cavils against the universality of the pract●ce of laying on o● Hands is at least the less considerable Now that the promise of the Spirit extends to Christian women as well as men appeareth from the Prophets foresight of the extent thereof Isa 44. 3. I will powr water upon him that is thirsty and flouds upon the dry ground I will powr my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon their off-spring Joel 2. And it shall come to pass afterward that I will powr out my Spirit upon all flesh and upon the servants and upon the Handmaid in those dayes will I powr out of my Spirit Which glorious promise was first fulfilled to the Christians soon after the Assention of our Lord Acts 2. And now is the time as well as then for Christians to reap the fruit of that promise Acts 5. 32. the holy Ghost which God hath g●ven to them that obey him Because ye are sons God hath s●nt forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts Gal. 4. 6.