to be rated to all common charges whatsoever either for the Church Town or Cōmon-wealth in the same place where the estate is from time to time see pag. 18 19 20. Heresie Although no humane power be Lord over the Faith and Consciences of Men and therefore may not constrain them to beleeve or profess against their Consciences yet because such as bring in damnable heresies tending to the subversion of the Christian Faith and destruction of the soules of men ought duly to be restrained from such notorious impiety It is therefore ordered and decreed by this Court That if any Christian within this Iurisdiction shall go about to subvert and destroy the christian Faith and Religion by broaching or maintaining any damnable heresie as denying the immortality of the Soul or the resurrection of the body or any sin to be repented of in the Regenerate or any evil done by the outward man to be accounted sin or denying that Christ gave himself a Ransom for our sins or shall affirm that we are not justified by his Death and Righteousnesse but by the perfection of our own works or shall deny the morality of the fourth comandement or shall indeavour to seduce others to any the heresies aforementioned every such person continuing obstinate therein after due means of conviction shall be sentenced to Banishment see pag. 24. Disturbing of Churches It is ordered and decreed by this Court and the Authority thereof That if any person whether in Church-fellowship or not shall goe about to destroy or disturb the orders peace of the Churches established in this Iurisdiction by open renouncing their Church Estate or their Ministry or other ordinances dispenced in them either upon pretence that the Churches were not planted by any new Apostles or that ordinances are for carnall Christians or babes in Christ and not for spirituall or illuminated persons or upon any other such like grounded conceit every such person who shal be found culpable herein after due means of conviction shall forfeit to the publick Treasury forty shillings for every moneth so long as he continues in that his obstinacy Torture That no man shall be beaten with above forty stripes for one Fact at one time Nor shall any man be punished with whipping except he have not otherwise to answer the Law unlesse his crime be very shamefull his course of life vitious profligate see p. 50. The Testimony of John Clarke Obediah Holmes and John Crandall Prisoners at Boston in New-England concerning the faith and order of the Gospell of Christ Iesus the Lord as the same was laid down in four Conclusions and proffered to be openly and publikly defended against all gain-sayers when none would comeforth thus to oppose it now again by the aforesaid John Clarke reviewed particularly and strictly examined by the Word of God and Testimony of Iesus and thereby as is here at large to be seen confirmed and justifyed The first Conclusion ITestifie that Iesus of Nazareth whom God hath raised from the dead is made both Lord and Christ you may see this testimony clearly and plentifully witnessed and confirmed by the Scriptures of Truth for First that God raised him from the dead appears by the testimony of 12 chosen Witnesses Acts 2. 24. 32. This Jesus say they hath God raised up whereof we are Witnesses so also chap. 3. 15. And being alive again he was seeen of above 500 Brethren at once being faithfull Witnesses Children that will not lie see 1 Cor. 15. 6. And last of all he was seen of Paul whom he sent to the Gentiles see 1 Cor. 15. 8. Acts 22. 18. 21. And this is layd by Paul as the foundation of the hope of the Israel of God that they shall be raised and shall share in that glory that shall then be revealed yea it is that word of Truth as Peter witnesseth by which the Father of mercies doth again beget such as had sinned faln short of the glory of God were without hope unto a lively hope of the glory of God in an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away and is reserved in heaven for them see 1 Pet 1. 3. 4. And in the second place that God hath made this Iesus whom he hath raised from the dead both Lord and Christ see it also confirmed Acts the 2d the 36. 10. 36. 2 Cor. 4. 5. Acts 18. 5. This Iesus I say is the Christ in English the Anointed One hath a name above every name that he is not onely said to be a Christ and an Anointed one which although it be a name of eminency among men yet may there be sound many both before the time of Reformation and since upon whom this worthy name of Christ or Anointed one may be worthily called as were those names of eminency among the Israel of old as King Priest and Prophet and such as being washed in the blood of the Lamb are also Anointed and made Kings and Priests unto God and Prophets to men compare the 2 Cor. 1. 21. 1 Io. 2. 27. with Rev. 5. 10. 19. 10. I say he is not onely a Christ but that he might appear in this eminent name to have the preheminence he is called the Christ see Mark 8. 29. Io. 11. 27. 6. 69. 20. 31. which in English is the Anointed one as will appear 1 Io. 41. We have found saith Andrew to Simon the Messias being the Hebrew word which being interpreted into the Greek Language is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Christ but rendered in English as in the margent is the Anointed and hence he is called in the 9 Luk. 20. the Christ of God or in more plain English the Anointed of God suitable to this are such expressions of the spirit of God in the Scriptures of truth as these Him hath God Anointed and that with the oyl of gladnesse above his fellowes see Acts 4. 27. 10. 38. 1 Heb. 9. And that he hath a name above every name doth evidently appear for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell yea all the fulnesse of the God-head bodily that in all things or as it is in the Margent among all he might have the preeminence see Coll. 1. 18 19. 2. 9. so Phi. 2. 9. Wherefore saith the Apostle God hath also highly exalted him and given him a name above every name he hath a name above the Anointed Kings Priests and Prophets of old they being but types and shadowes of him and yet were the highest names in Israel which was a Family that had a name above all the Families of the Earth and so a name above all the names on the Earth and yet this is not all for he hath a name above all Principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not in this world only but also in that which is is to come Ephe. 1. 20 21 22. Phi. 2. 10 11. He is the Anointed Priest none to or with him in
following meet again at the said William Witters in contempt to Authority you being then in the custody of the Law and did there receive the Sacrament being Excommunicate and that you did Baptize such as were Baptized before and thereby did necessarily deny the Baptism that was before administred to be Baptism the Churches no Churches and also other Ordinances and Ministers as if all were a Nullity And also did deny the lawfullness of Baptizing of Infants and all this tends to the dishonour of God the despising the ordinances of God among us the peace of the Churches and seducing the Subjects of this Commonwealth from the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and perverting the strait waies of the Lord the Court doth fine you 30 pounds to be paid or sufficient sureties that the said sum shall be paid by the first day of the next Court of Assistants or else to be well whipt and that you shall remain in Prison till it be paid or security given in for it By the Court ENCREASE NOWELL And now because his sufferings and the sence which his Soul felt of the Lords Support according to promise is affectionately set forth and commended as a token of his love in a Letter written with his own hand and sent unto those that have obtained like precious faith in London or elsewhere whereby by an experiment which God hath been pleased to give to him and us they may evidently discern that Iesus Christ is in point of tender compassions touching those that confess his name before the Sonnes of men the same to day that he was yesterday that as yesterday so to day it may be said as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ so that they which keep the commandements of God and Testimony of Iesus Christ may be hereby incouraged to fear none of those things which they shall suffer before they come nor when they look them in the face and begin the incounter with them be soon weary and wax faint in their minds but faithfully and hopefully expect they suffering for the name of Christ and as Christians that the spirit of their Lord and of glory shall rest upon them The words of his Letter followeth Unto the well beloved Brethren Iohn Spilsbury William Kissin and the rest that in London stand fast in that Faith and continue to walk stedfastly in that Order of the Gospell which was once delivered unto the Saints by Iesus Christ Obediah Holms an unworthy witness that Iesus is the Lord and of late a Prisoner for Iesus sake at Boston sendeth greeting Dearly Beloved and longed after MY hearts desire is to hear from you and to hear that you grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ and that your love to him and one unto another as he hath given commandment aboundeth would be the very joy and great rejoycing of my Soul and Spirit had I not been prevented by my beloved Brethren of Providence who have wrot unto you wherein you have my Mind at large and also by our beloved Brother Clarke of Road-Iland who may if God permit see you and speak with you mouth to mouth I had here declared my self in that matter but now I forbear And because I have an experimentall knowledge in my self that in members of the same Body while it stands in union with the head there is a sympathizing Spirit which passeth through and also remain in each particular so that one member can neither mourn nor rejoyce but all the members are ready to mourn or rejoyce with it I shall the rather impart unto you some dealings which I have had therein from the Sons of Men and the gracious supports which I have met with from the Son of God my Lord and yours that so like Members you might rejoyce with me and might be encouraged by the same experiment of his â—ender mercies to fear none of those things which you shall suffer for Iesus sake â—t pleased the Father of Light after a long continuance of mine in death and darknesse to cause life and immortality to be brought to light in my soul and also to cause me to see that this life was by the death of his Son in that hour and power of darknesse procured which wrought in my heart a restless desire to know what that Lord who had so dearly bought me would have me to do and finding that it was his last will to which none is to adde and from which none is to detract that they which had faith in his death for life should yeeld up themselves to hold forth a lively consimilitude or likenesse unto his death buriall and resurrection by that Ordinance of Baptisme I readily yeelded thereto being by love constrained to follow that Lamb that takes away the sins of the World whither soever he goes I had no sooner separated from their assemblies and from Communion with them in their worship of God and thus visibly put on Christ being resolved alone to attend upon him and to submit to his will but immediately the adversary cast out a flood against us and stirred up the spirits of men to present my self and two more to Plymouth Court where we met with 4 Petitions against our whole company to take some speedy course to suppress us one from our own Plantation with 35 hands to it one froÌ„ the Church as they call it at Tantoâ— one from all the Ministers in our Colony except two if I mistake not and one from the Court at Boston in the Mathatusets under their Secretaries hand whereupon the Court straitly chargeth us to desist and neither to ordain Officers nor to Baptize nor to break bread together nor yet to meet upon the first day of the week and having received these strait charges one of the three discovers the sandy foundation upon which he stood who when the flood came and the wind blew fell yet it pleased the Father of mercies to whom be the praise to give us strength to stand to tell them it was better to obey God rather than man and such was the grace of our God to us-ward that though we were had from Court to Court yet were we firmly resolved to keep close to the rule and to obey the voyce of our Lord come what will come Not long after these troubles I came upon occasion of businesse into to the Colony of the Mathatusets with two other Brethren as Brother Clark being one of the two can inform you where we three were apprehended carried to the prison at Boston and so to the Court and were all sentenced what they laid to my charge you may here read in my sentence Vpon the pronouncing of which as I went from the Bar I exprest my self in these words I blesse God I am connted worthy to suffer for the name of Iesus whereupon Iohn Wilson their Pastor as they call him strook me before the Iudgment
that loved him and kept his commandments and that he intended the same unto other visible disciples that should love him and keep his commandments unto the end of the world will also appear for if the appointment of Christ sci the supper that went before and is exprest chapter the 13. and the prayer of Christ that followed after and is exprest chapter 17. did belong unto them that should believe through their word till he come again then this promise that is so often repeated between doth as well belong unto them as to these but the former is true See Iohn 17. 20. 1. Cor. 11. 26. therefore the later If the consequence be denied it will still be proved out of Christs own words See Iohn 7. 37 38. and the consideration even in reason of Christs exceeding love and tender care towards all his disciples that love him and keep his commandments and their sensible wants of the same supplies of the Spirit will clearly evince it 2. It will clearly appear out of the words of the Apostles of Christ See Iohns interpretation of these words of Christ Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water This spake he saith Iohn of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the holy Spirit was not yet because Iesus was not yet glorified John 7. 29. See also what they all say with one mouth after they had received this holy Spirit with power whereby they were furnished as Apostles or Embassadors of him that had all power in heaven and earth in his hand to go forth with the embassage of peace into all Nations and could deliver the mind of their Lord unto them in their own language Acts 2. 38 39. Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Iesus for the remission of sins ye shall receive the gift of the holy Spirit for the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are a far off as many of all these as the Lord our God shall call sci to repentance from dead works to faith in Christ Iesus to this visible manifestation thereof by being baptised and so visibly planted into the death buriall and resurrection of Christ for the remission of sins 3. This will also appear by the enjoyments of those that first trusted in Christ and visibly manifested their faith and love in and to the Lord by keeping his commandments The Disciples which were also called Apostles waiting in the appointment of their Lord at Jerusalem received and were filled with that holy Spirit with power according to promise See Acts 1. 4. compared with 2. 2. So that great number that were about three or rather five thousand souls that believed through their word and were baptized in Jerusalem and waited in the appointments of the same Lord that is to say together steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and in fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayer they also enjoied this holy Spirit according to promise See Acts 4. 31. The like may be found among the Saints in Samaria Acts 8. 17. in Ephesus Acts 19. And the same may be found among the Saints that thus put on Christ and walked in him among those that first trusted in him in all places See it in the Romans chap. 5. 5. and chap. 8. at large See it in the Corinthians Epistle 1. chap. 2. 10. 12. and 6. 11. 19. and ch 12. at large In the Galathians ch 3. 2. 4. 6. In the Ephesians chap. 1. 13. In the Philippians chap. 3. 3. In the Colossians chap. 1. 8. In the Thessalonians Ep. 1. chap. 1. 5 6. and chap. 5. 19. This promise is also found true in the litle children that Iohn writes to and is often repeated 1 Iohn 3. 24 4. 13. and in the 2. 27. he speaks unto them after this manner but the anointing speaking of this holy Spirit of promise which ye have received of him abideth in you and such is his supply that you need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him And now litle Children abide in him c. And Iude telleth us that the very ground why some that had made a profession of the faith and order of Iesus caused divisions and offences contrary to that doctrine they had received and separated themselves was because they were sensuall not having this Spirit Iude 19 And as all this hath been proved by the last Will and Testament of that living Lord so is it also clear that his Will is not to be added to or taken from compare Gal. 3. 15. with Rev. 22. 18 19. which notwithstanding if any man shall attempt to do let him know this Lord is alive and will ere-long appear sufficiently able to avenge it 3. I testifie that every such servant of Christ Iesus may in point of liberty yea ought in point of duty to improve that talent which his Lord hath given unto him That it is their duty to improve the talent the Lord hath given unto them and that for that end it was also given will appear by those two instances of the Lord himself the first is Mat. 5. 13 14 15. Ye saith the Lord to his Disciples are the salt of the earth the light of the world c. neither do men light a candle and put it under a hushell but on a candlestick whereby he intimates that if it be far from the intention of men who are but weak and foolish in their intentions and actions to sight a candle which is for use and then to put it under a bushell and so make it useless then much further from the purpose and intention of God who is the father of lights to enlighten the spirit of a man which is the candle of the Lord and then to have that light concealed and with-held therefore it follows let your light saith the Lord so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heaven The other instance is in the 19 th chapter of Luke 11 12 13 14 15 16. to the 27. verse in which Parable is lively declared by the Lord 1. That that glorious Kingdome of God that shall certainly appear should not so immediatly appear as some thought it should for which end is the Parable spoken verse 11. and the first words of the Parable will prove the same thing for the Noble-man which is Christ Iesus the Lord must first go into a far counâ—ry to receive his Kingdome which is to the right hand of the Father there to sit untill all his enemies become his footstool and so return 2. Here is declared the order in which this Lord left this houshold when he went to receive his Kingdome he bestowed gifts or talents upon them and commands them as his servants in their severall places to occupy till he come
was baptized went up straitway out of the water therefore had he been down in the water 6. That this appointment of Christ was not by sprinkling but by dipping or as it were a drowning appears in that Iohn the Baptizer his work being to baptize remains in the wilderness by the river of Iordan and afterward in Aenon and the reason that is rendred by the Spirit of God why there he abode was because there was much water there which need not have been if that appointment could have been performed by sprinkling and not by dipping See Luke 3. 2 3. Iohn 3. 23. 7. That this appointment of Christ was not to be performed by sprinkling but by diping c. appears from the nature of the Ordinance it self for it is such an ordinance as whereby the person that submitteth thereto doth visibly put on Christ Iesus the Lord and is hereby visibly planted into his death holding forth therein a lively similitude and likeness unto his death whereby onely through faith he now professeth he hath escaped death and is in hope to obtain life and peace everlasting and so to have fellowship with him in his death as to be dead with him and thereupon to reckon himself to be dead indeed unto sin Sathan the law and the curse See Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 8. 2. 3. 5. 7 8. 11. 1 Cor. 15. 29. But the planting of a person into the likness of death is no waies resembled by sprinkling but by dipping it is lively set forth and demonstrated therefore 8. This appointment of Christ sci Baptism is an ordinance whereby the person that submitteth thereto doth hereby visibly and cleerly resemble the buriall of Christ and his being buried with him so as in respect of the old man the former lusts and conversation like the Egyptians to be taken out of the way and seen no more See Romans 6. 4. 6. Col. 2. 12. But sprinkling doth no way lively resemble the buriall of Christ or the persons being buried with him as dipping doth therefore 9. This appointment of Christ sci Baptism is an ordinance wherby the person that submitteth thereto doth visibly and lively hold forth herein the resurrection of Christ declares him whose life was taken from the earth to be alive again who although he died and was buried yet was he not left in the grave to see corruption but was raised again and behold he liveth for evermore and as hereby he holds forth the resurrectiof Christ so doth he also his own being planted into the likeness therof so as to reckon himself to be in his soul and spirit quickned and risen with Christ from henceforth to live unto God the fountain of life and to Christ Iesus the Lord who died for him and rose again and so to walk in newness of life in this present evill world being also begotten unto a lively hope that in the world to come he shall be raised and quickned both in soul and body to a life everlasting See Rom. 6. 4 5. 8. 11. Acts 8. 33 35 36. Col. 2. 12. Rom. 8. 11. 1 Cor. 15. 29. 1 Pet. 1. 3. but sprinkling doth no way lively resemble the resurrection of Christ or the souls or bodies rising or being raised by him as the way of dipping doth Therefore this appointment of Christ was and still is to be performed by way of dipping or putting the person into or under the water and not by sprinkling And that this dipping in or into water in the name of Iesus is one of the commandments of this Lord Iesus Christ doth evidently appear Mat. 28. 19. Mark 16. 15 16 compared with Acts 2. 38. 41. 8. 36. 38. and 10. 47 48. And that it is also to be observed by all that trust in Christ as other of his commands as he is the Lord untill he come again is likewise expresly manifested to be his will Mat. 28. 20. Gal. 1. 7 8. Jude 3. 2 Tim. 2. 2. Col. 2. 5 6. Rev. 2. 25. 3. 11. Hold fast till I come Rev. 22. 14. 19. Heb. 12. 25. But to proceed That a visible believer or disciple of Christ Jesus that is one that manifesteth repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ is the onely person that is to be baptised with that visible baptism or dipping of Jesus Christ in water That a visible disciple or Scholar of Christ one that manifesteth himself to have heard him to have been taught by him and to have yielded up himself to him as his teacher is the only person c. will be made manifest 1. By the commission it self and the argument stands thus they and they onely have right to this ordinance and appointment of Jesus Christ whom the ordainer himself sci Christ Jesus the Lord hath in his Last Will and Testament appointed it to but Christ Jesus the Lord hath appointed it to Disciples and to Believers and to such onely Therefore The first proposition cannot be denyed and the second will easily be proved see the commission by which the Apostles were warranted to administer this ordinance and so must all that baptise or they will appear but usurpers Mat. 28. 18 19. All power is given unto me in heaven and in Earth saith the Lord go ye therefore and discipulize or make disciples not among the Jews only but among the Gentiles and Nations and baptize them so that if the question should have been made Lord whom shall we baptise of the Nations among the Jews and Gentiles his answer was given in the words before and he would have given no other you shall baptize amongst the Nations Jews and Gentiles such as first have been taught and by teaching have been made my disciples so Mar. 16. 16. Go ye into all the world saith the Lord and preach the Gospel to every creature to the Gentiles as well as the Jews he that beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved c. So that if the question here again should be propounded who among the religious and strict Jews and the loose and profane Gentiles should be baptised the answer is plain those to whom the Gospel first hath been preached and they through that Gospel have also believed 2. By the practice of the Commissioners who were faithful unto their Lord and to the charge which he gave them and the argument stands thus Such as the faithful Apostles and first Commissioners of Christ Jesus the Lord administred this ordinance of baptism unto such and such only ought to be made partakers thereof But the Apostles and first Commissioners of Christ administred not this ordinance unto carnal babes infants of daies such as are by the testimony of the Scriptures declared to be conceived in sin to be brought forth in iniquity and being born of the flesh to be but flesh and so by nature the Children of wrath one as well as another being also untaught But to such as first were taught and were ordained by the immortal seed of the word to be born
therein they that cannot interpret it by the other four nor yet by the Commission it self nor by the Commissioners faithful observance thereof in all other instances let them prove if they can these three particulars 1. That Lydia ever had a husband 2. In case she had that ever she had any children by him and if so then in the 3. place that they were not dead or so grown up that they might hear and receive the word gladly as well as their mother 3. A third argument to prove that a visible believer is the person that according to the mind of Christ is to be baptized in water may be taken from the order which the Spirit of Christ laies down faith and baptism in the scriptures of truth putting faith still in the first place witness Mark 16. 15 16. Mat. 28. 19. Heb. 6. Eph. 4. A 4 argument may be taken from the nature of the ordinance and a 5 from Johns Baptism Yea much more might be said to this point but this may suffice And also the only person that is to walk in the visible order of his house and so to wait for his comming the second time in the form of a Lord and King with his glorious Kingdome according to promise That he is the only person that is to enter into and walk in the visible order of his house will evidently appear if the order in which our Lord left his house when he went to his Father to receive his kingdome be duly considered for in his last will and testament we shall find it thus recorded when our Lord was about to be gone he gave order unto his Apostles whom he made stewards in his house of the mysteries of God to make him Disciples of all Nations and that such as were so made should then be baptized and so visibly planted into Christ and put on Christ and having so received him should walk in him observing all things whatsoever he had commanded the first thing wherof as touching order was to be added or joined one to another in the fellowship of the Gospel by a mutual professed subjection to the Scepter of Christ and being a company thus called out of the world from worldly vanities and worldly worships after Christ Jesus the Lord which is the proper English of these words the Church of Christ and is in other terms called the Houshold of faith should steadfastly continue together in the Apostles doctrine sci the consolation reproof and instruction thereof in Fellowship sci mutual support both inward and outward in Breaking of bread thereby remembring the death of our Lord whose soul was made an offering for sin as his flesh is meat indeed and his blood drink indeed by the help of the Spirit to nourish our souls and spirits up unto eternal life and in prayer one with and for another And that this is the absolute order which the Lord hath appointed in his last Will and Testament doth evidently appear both by his own precept and command and by the practice of such as first trusted in him and if so then neither infants of daies nor yet such as profess themselves to be believers in Jesus but refuse as a manifestation thereof according to the practice of such as first trusted in Christ to yield up themselves to be planted into the death burial and resurrection of Christ and so visibly to put Christ on as did the Christians of old I say such have no visible right to enter into or walk in the order of the Gospel of Christ and to conclude the point the argument stands thus They and they only have visible right to enter into and walk in the visible order of Christs house and so to wait for his comming whom Christ Jesus himself being the Lord of the house hath appointed and his Apostles being his stewards have approved of But such as first have been taught and made disciples or Scholars of Jesus and believers in Christ and afterwards have bin baptised or dipped and therby visibly lively planted into the death burial and resurrection of Christ are they and they only whom Christ hath appointed and the Apostles have approved of See his Commission peruse their practice Ergo They and they only have visible right to enter into and walk in the order of Christs house and so to wait for his comming the second time in the form of a King with his glorious Kingdom according to promise See for a farther confirmation of the last clause in the first Epistle to the Corinthians 1. 7. 1 The 1 10. 2. The. 3. 5. But to proceed He is the person that is also to wait for his Lords sending down from the right hand of his father in the time of his absence the holy Ghost or holy Spirit of promise and all this according to the last will and testament of that living Lord That this living Lord did promise when he left this present evil world that is in a great measure subjected to devils and went to his Father not only to return again but in the time of his absence as a testimony of his great love unto such as are called to be his disciples manifest the same by loving him keeping his commandments and as a teâ—â—imony of his loving acceptance at the right hand his Father to send down the holy Spirit which should be in them as a well-spring of living water flowing forth unto eternall life who being a Spirit of truth and sent by Christ who is the truth which God will exalt shall glorifie him take of him and his and shew unto them and so lead them from truth to truth until he hath brought them into all truth as a comforter or Spirit of comfort shall fill their hearts with joy in believing by bearing witness with their spirits that they are the children of God and by revealing unto them the precious things w ch God hath prepared for them that love him which neither eye hath seen nor ear hath heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive and as a holy Spirit shall set them apart that are justifyed by the blood of his Son unto the holy God and sanctifie them throughout in soul and spirit and body and as a Spirit of supplication shall help them to speak unto God and as a Spirit of prophecy to speak unto men that this Lord I say did promise unto his disciples who love him and keep his commandments in the time of his absence the presence of such a Spirit as this which hath supplies in him beyond what the â—oul lacks and that therfore they are to wait for this promise and for these supplies in his appointments will clearly appear 1. Out of the words of the Lord himself See Iohn 14. 15 16 17. so v. 26. chap. 15. 26. chap. 16. 7 8. so v. 13 14 15. five times in that night in which he was betraied doth he repeat that promise to his Disciples