them and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. 1 Pet. 4. 1-3 He partook with us of flesh and blood that he might through death destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. God had threatned that in the day man did eat of the forbidden fruit in dying he should dye And by our first Fathers disobedience we fell under the sentence of death And though we might have had a sensible being yet it had heen a miserable one we could have had no comfortable being in this world But now when Christ was interposed and God promised this Seed of the Woman Adam in belief of God's promise of his purpose and grace gives his Wife a new name and called her Eve or Chavah because she was the mother of all living who otherwise had been the mother of all dead Gen. 2. 17 with chap. 3. 15-20 In this was manifested the love of God towards us because God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 Joh. 4. 9. Joh. 6. 51. Rom. 5. 12-18 And through his precious Blood and powerful Sacrifice God doth us good and fills our hearts with food and gladness We must otherwise have been alwayes and altogether accursed Cursed in basket and cursed in store cursed in our meat and drink cursed in all we had injoyed or partaken of But Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Gal. 3. 13. And now because he descended into the lower parts of the earth and is ascended up on high and hath led captivity captive and received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also As the consequent and fruit hereof God daily loadeth us with his benefits and is a God of salvation to us And to God the Lord belong the issues from death Psal 68. 18-20 and 85. 10-12 Every creature of God is good for it is sanctified and made clean by the word of God and prayer or intercession as the word signifies that is by the word of God even by Jesus Christ his being made flesh and in that body of his flesh bearing our sins and dying our death in the virtue whereof he is raised again His name is the word of God Heb. 4. 12. Rev. 19. 13. and by his intercession for us 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. And hence we are instructed to give thanks alwayes for all things unto God and the Father in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord Eph. 5. 20. To signify to us that all the mercies we are made partakers of we partake of them upon the account of the Sufferings Sacrifice and Mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ and all mixtures of mercy and compassion in afflictions and deliverance therefrom is because God hath found out a ransom Psal 75. 3-8 Job 33. 19-24 And the end of all his goodness extended and continued to us through our blessed Mediator is to lead us to repentance Rom. 2. 4. 2 Cor. 5. 15. And surely were this heartily minded and considered that our lives and our comfortable enjoyment of Gods mercies are the price of his Blood and Sacrifice and vouchsased to us that we might live not to the lusts of men but to the will of God it would be powerful to preserve us from consuming upon our lusts the good things we receive at so dear a rate Hence the Apostle when he exhorts the Believers to walk honestly not in rioting and drunkenness he to this end instructs them to put on the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 13. 13 14 and counsels them to walk in the Spirit whose work it is to glorify Christ and receive of his things and shew unto us and saith he Ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh Amongst which are revellings and drunkenness Gal. 5. 16-18-21 And from the consideration hereof that the earth is the Lords even the Lord Jesus Christs and the fulness thereof and that by grace we are made partakers of a comfortable enjoyment of Gods mercies even by the grace of our Lord Jesus who so greatly humbled himself for our sakes And by the grace of God whereby Jesus Christ tasted death for every man The Apostle exhorteth the Believers that whether they eat or drink or whatsoever they did they should do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 21 26-28-31 And the not considering or taking notice of this is the reason and cause of mens abuse of the good creatures of God and of their consuming them upon their lusts or in the service of their Idols Hence the Lord saith the did not know or take notice that I gave her Corn and Wine and Oyl which they prepared for Baal Hos 2. 6-8 Did we indeed consider at what a dear rate we have all the mercies vouchsafed to us it would powerfully help us thus to say Seeing these are the price of the Blood of my blessed Redeemer shall I abuse and waste that which cost so dear Shall I tread under my feet the precious Blood of Christ God forbid How shall I do such wickedness and sin against the precious Blood and powerful mediation of my Lord who loved me and gave himself for me and affords me these conforts and refreshings that I might live to him that died for me and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. Rom. 12. 1. 1 Pet. 4. 1-3 Yea indeed now the greatness and preciousness of the sufferings of Christ and the wonderfulness of the grace of God are more brightly manifested and clearly discovered to us than they were in former times and thereby greater obligation is laid upon us now than upon others under the more dark ministration of the Law to flee from the service of our Lusts and Idols Through the tender mercy of our God the day-spring from on high hath visited us To give light to them that sate in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Luk. 1. 78 79. Jesus Christ is now evidently set forth before our eyes as one who hath been Crucified for us in which the vileness and odiousness of our sins and vanities is clearly discovered to us Gal. 3. 1 with Rom. 3. 8. The Gospel is preached according to the Revelation of the mystery and the grace of God hath been more clearly revealed than before Christs coming in the flesh yea than before he had poured down and shed forth the Holy Spirit upon his Apostles from Heaven after he ascended on high Therefore now especially it behoves us and we are more powerfully enabled and moved to flee from all Intemperance and the evil fruits thereof The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light let us walk honestly as in the day-time not in rioting and drunkenness c. Now it is high time for us to
all greedy dogs which can never have enough which know not to be satisfied they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his quarter Come ye say they I will fotch Wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and tomorrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isa 56. 11 12. so it is said of the King of Babylon Because he transgresseth by wine he keepeth not at home who inlargeth his desire as hell and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and heapeth unto him all people Where his transgressing by Wine is laid down as the cause of all his greedy and insatiable desire after the inlarging his Dominions as one that could never have enough Hab. 2. 5. yea many are the evil fruits of this Drunkenness and of that excess and prodigality which is in it As sometimes when persons have spent all and reflect and look back again upon it it fills them with an heap of grief and desperate sorrow even with worldly sorrow which worketh death Ezek. 23. 33. sometimes their excess leads them to bear false witness against others or to kill and murder them in secret if they may but advantage themselves thereby and get more sewel to consume upon the fire of this brutish and vile affection and lust of intemperance And indeed that there is such excess in Drunkenness namely a profuse and prodigal spending of ones estate and that also leads to many other evils as is in part shewn The consideration of it might move us to flee from insobriery as from the face of a Serpent Alas what account will men give of their stewardship when they appear before the Judgment-seat of Jesus Christ our Lord If the unprofitable Servant who hid his Lord's talent in the earth and when his Lord came to reckon with him returned back to his Lord that which was his must be cast into outer darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Because he had not improved it how can such escape the wrath to come who consume their Lord's goods upon their lusts How altogether unaccountable will their prodigality and wastfulness appear to be when God shall render to every one according to his deeds Matth. 25. 24-30 with Chap. 24. 48-51 Then will he say to the unprofitable ones and much rather to those great Wasters who continue such and are not washed from this Iniquity in the blood of the lamb Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink c. Which account of the eternal Judgment is immediately subjoyned to that of the unprofitable Servant Matth. 25. 30-42 He shall then have judgment without mercy who shewed no mercy but wasted away all that substance which his Lord committed to him and remembred not to shew mercy to the poor and needy Jam. 2. 13. Psal 109. 14-16 Remember what was the portion of the rich man who lived like an Epicure and which parable is presently added after that concerning the steward who had wasted his Lord's goods He fared sumptuously every day and remembred not to shew mercy to poor Lazarus And at last the place of torment was his portion in which he could not obtain a drop of Water to cool his tongue who had swallowed and devoured so much Wine and strong Drink in his life-time Luk. 16. 1-19-25 Oh consider this now yet that forget God that you may not pursue Drunkenness in which is excess lest hereafter he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver 2. In which is Excess namely a profuse wasting and mispending our precious time which God is graciously giving and continuing unto us to the end we might seek after the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near at hand In verse 16 of this Chapter the Apostle had exhorted these believers to walk circumspectly redeeming the time or opportunity now as opposed to redeeming the time he warning of Drunkenness saith therein is excess a wasteful consuming and mispending or selling away our time upon and for the Service of our lusts And this should powerfully move and ingage us to receive the Admonition here given unto us not to be drunk with Wine certainly had not Christ been made flesh for us had he not been made a partaker of flesh and blood and died for us and through death destroyed him that had the power of death that is the Devil we must necessarily have been all our life-time subject to the bondage of the Devil and must have done and fulfilled his lusts and requirings Heb. 2. 14 17. But to the end that his snare might be broken and we delivered therefore our Lord Jesus by the grace of God tasteth death for every man And hath procured a comfortable life-time for us here But to what end suppose we hath he so done Is it that we should return to our former bondage no certainly for then he needed not to have been so greatly abased and so to have humbled himself that he might deliver us therefrom But therefore he died for us and rose again and continues through his mediation a life-time to us that after his grace brings Salvation to us we should no longer live the rest of our time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of God 1 Pet. 4. 2 3. where it plainly appears the lusts of men our own or others and the will of God are opposed the one to the other Those that live to the former cannot live to the latter Though to every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven Eccles 3. 1-11 yet it is contrary to the will of God that we should live any of our time in the flesh to the lusts of men nor was it at all the end of Christ towards us in dying for us But that we being dead to sin might live to righteousness 1 Pet. 2 24 He hath delivered us from the hand of our enemies that we might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life that our whole time might be imployed in the Service of him who hath so greatly loved us and so wonderfully testified it towards us Luk. 1. 74 75. But now in Drunkenness is excess a great wasting and mispending our precious time the comfortable injoyment and continuance whereof we have at so dear a rate A great deal thereof is spent or mispent rather in the act of intemperance And a great deal in the consequent thereof for thereby men fit and dispose themselves to slothfulness and sleepiness as is said and unfit themselves for the seeking after and serving the Lord in whose hand is our breath and all our time Oh how prodigal are men such men of their time as if it were given them to such an
is evident and apparent And is this a time for us then to work the will of the gentiles and to walk in excess of Wine revellings banquettings c Surely no cause we have rather abundant cause to sigh with the breaking of our loins and with bitterness for the judgments and occasions of heaviness already come and for the tidings of what is a coming because it cometh And every heart shall melt and all hands shall be feeble and every spirit shall faint and all knees shall be weak as water c. Ezek. 21. 6 7. Surely the present days are such as might cause all the merry-hearted to sigh and not to drink Wine with a song yea to cause strong drink to be bitter to them that drink it For all joy is darkened the mirth of the land is gone Isa 24. 7-11 And what wrath is yet laid up in store and what the end will be or how soon he may so order Judgment as when he begins he will also make an end and affliction shall not rise up the second time But while they be drunken drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry he only perfectly knoweth before whose eyes all things are naked and opened Nehem. 1. 8-10 But such times seem to be coming as will cause mens hearts to fail for fear yea certainly they shall come Luk. 21. 25 26. And oh how doth it then behove those who know and believe in some measure the testimony of God concerning Christ to be sober and watch unto prayer in such evil days 1 Pet. 4. 7. And to take heed to themselves lest at any time their hearts be over-charged with surfeiting and drunkenness c. Luk. 21. 25 26-34-36 And now to redeem and not mispend the opportunity because the days are evil God is loudly awakening us to his righteousness in his providences and in the lifting up of his hand amongst us and shall we still follow our insobriety and be companions of riotous persons and thereby make our selves so sottish and insensible as to be live him that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast who though stricken yet is not sick though beaten feels it not but saith when shall I awake I will seek Wine and strong drink again Prov. 23. 31-35 Oh! though Israel thus play the Harlot let not Judah Gods pleasant plant thus offend and that in such a day of adversity and affliction also let them not now make their belly their God and debase themselves to Hell for the satisfying of their fleshly lusts and desires And so for a morsel of meat like Esau sell their birthright And most especially let not such transgress through Wine in such evil times who are as the Hee-goats before the flock yea let all the believers now both those who are taught and those who teach look diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble them and thereby many be defiled lest there be amongst them a root that beareth Wormwood and Gall any person or persons that say in his or their heart We shall have peace though we walk after the imagination of our hearts adding drunkenness to thirst For the Lord will not spare such an one But then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoak against that man and all the curses that are written in the book of God shall lye upon him Heb. 12. 14 15. with Deut. 29. 18-20 Let us all then now especially receive and obey the Dehortation and Admonition given to the believers when the days are evil both sinfully evil and evil also by reason of the manifold Afflictions and Judgments which have been and are already amongst us and further also which are threatned And now be we not drunk with wine And to move us hereto consider we another Instruction contained in this Dehortation of the Apostles viz. IV. In that he saith Be not drunk with wine so he signifieth to us that we may thorow the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ keep our selves pure from this iniquity here warned of and obey this Admonition which is here given to us He doth not exhort us from that which we may not possibly abstain from or which God is not in and by his Gospel inabling and strengthening us against and making possible to us to flee from But in those Exhortations and Dehortations given unto us by our Lord Jesus there is the power and influence of his spirit to inable us to abstain from what he is warning us of and to will and do what he is exhorting and counselling us unto as the Apostle saith when he is giving Exhortations to the believers It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of good pleasure Do all things without murmuring and disputing that ye may be blameless and harmless Phil. 2. 12-15 And when he writes to the Thessalonians and re-minds them of what Commandments he and his fellow-labourers gave them by the Lord Jesus namely to abstain from uncleanness intemperance c. he saith He therefore that despiseth despiseth not man but God who also hath given unto us his holy spirit As signifying God in and by his spirit was present with those Commandments given by Christ to inable men to what was commanded them 1 Thes 4. 1 2-7 8. And indeed this incouragement our Lord assures unto and promises his Servants that in their preaching the Gospel to every creature of all the Nations and therewith teaching men to observe whatsoever he had commanded them he would be with them always even unto the end of the world Mat. 28. 18-20 Rev. 3. 8. And faithful is he that promised who also will do it Mark 16. 15-20 So that though we are all naturally inclined to all that is evil and have many temptations and provocations thereto from without especially in evil days yet we may in the strength afforded be saved and preserved from the lusts of the flesh which war against the Soul because his Spirit is not straitned towards us but his words do good to them that walk uprightly Micah 2. 1-7 Now there are many arguments contained in the Gospel propounded to and set before us which are mighty through God to help and enable us to flee from all Drunkenness and Intemperance As to say 1. In the Gospel is shewn unto us that we have a comfortable injoyment of our lives and of all our Meat and Drink vouchsafed to us through the mediation of Jesus Christ we were all dead sensually dead condemned to dye as the Apostle signifieth to us when he saith If one died for all in the room and stead of all then were all dead And upon the account of and by vertue of ones dying for all and rising again dead men now live in their several ages and generations to the end they might not live to themselves or the lusts of men but to him which died for
heart merry though heaviness be occasioned to the outward man by the temptations and trials man here meet with Joh. 14. 16. 26. and 16. 7. And he is the Comforter in bearing witness of Christ of his sufferings and the glory which therethrough he hath received Joh. 15. 26. And indeed this Comforter doth glad at the heart those that drink in of his Cup of Consolation in shewing unto them the great abasement of Christ who by the grace of God tasted death for every man and is raised again for their justification and hath offered up himself a spotless Sacrifice unto God through this Eternal Spirit and so hath made peace for us by the Blood of his Cross purged away the guilt of our first sin and sinsuluess so as that it is no longer retained in Heaven against us abolished our first death and destroyed him that had the power of death that is the Devil taken out of the way all contrary to us c. And the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus doth make them free from the Law of Sin and Death that walk after it Rom. 8. 1-3 As well as also it shews unto us that our loss is recovered and all fulness treasured up in Christ that we might be brought back to God That by his own Sacrifice once offered he hath obtained plenteous Redemption even the forgiveness of sins for ever whereof the Holy Ghost is a witness to us and that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son Heb. 10. 10-15-18 1 Joh. 5. 6-11 That in him all things are ready and prepared for us even all things pertaining to life and Godliness That in him there is a feast of fat things prepared for all people of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and in him is all compleatness for us And the Spirit and the Bride say come Isa 25. 6. Col. 2. 9 10. Rev. 22. 16 17. Oh! what joy hath this found of the Spirit caused to those amongst whom it hath been sounded Act. 8. 5-8 and how hath their hearts been comforted and helped to rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory who have received and been made to drink into this one Spirit And Blessed are the people that know this joyful sound In thy name they shall rejoyce all the day-long Psal 89. 15 16. Indeed the natural Wine exceedingly falls short of this herein though that be proper to comfort and chear the natural Spirit of a man yet the Soul in a Spiritual consideration may be overwhelmed with sorrow and sadness mean time But this Spirit will fill the heart with solid and durable joy and the heart of such as drink it in shall rejoyce and their joy no man taketh from them Joh. 16. 22. with chap. 14. 16-18 And though the believing Thessalonians received Christs Gospel in much affliction yet also they received it with joy of the Holy Spirit 1 Thes 1. 6. And though now the dayes were evil in which the Apostle writes to these Ephesians sinful dayes and dayes of affliction both which cause sorrow yet now he gives this exhortation and instruction to them Be ye filled with the Spirit and signifies in what follows that this would apt and dispose them to Sing and make melody in their hearts to the Lord Eph. 5. 18 19. Oh! this is Wine indeed that will make the heart truly solidly and everlastingly merry and chearful and comfort it with everlasting consolations and good hope through Grace well therefore may it be likened to Wine 5. Wine is that which is proper to deliver the natural Spirit of a man from his fears and timerousness and to make one bold courageous against ones enemies and notwithstanding any cause or occasion of fear Hence we have such expressions used Like a mighty man that shouts by reason of Wine And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts he put them to a perpetual reproach Psal 78. 65 66. They shall devour and subdue with sling-stones and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine Zech. 9. 15. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man and their hearts shall rejoyce as through Wine chap. 10. 5-7 And so it is an usual thing now in our dayes that men may be delivered from fears to drink Wine or Strong Drink And indeed the Spirit is Wine in an eminent consideration in this respect namely it is that which doth strengthen against and deliver from fears those that drink it in For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear or cowardize but of power of love and of a sound mind Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of the Lord But be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God 2 Tim. 1. 7 8. Rom. 8. 15. And whose hearkeneth unto Christ the Wisdom of God receives and entertains his Gospel and turns at his reproofs To such an one he will pour out his Spirit and make known his words And he shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from the fear of evil Prov. 1. 20 21-23 33. Hence as the Lord saith to his people in former times My Spirit remaineth among you fear ye not Hag. 2. 5. So when he sent his Apostles to preach the Gospel in all the world he first tells them they should be indued with power after the Holy Spirit was come upon them and then should be his witnesses being thus strenghened and imboldened as well as fitted and furnished Act. 1. 8. Truly we may say This Holy Spirit in glorifying Christ and shewing unto us that he is indeed the Saviour of the world In bearing witness of that plenteousness of redemption and everlasting righteousness that is in him and the love of God manifested in Christ and that he is Love and Charity it self hereby casteth out all fear all fear that hath torment out of the hearty Believer hereof as with respect to God and saves them from his wrath and from the fears thereof And such receive not the Spirit of bondage to fear but the Spirit of Adoption the Spirit of child-like boldness and confidence to approach through Christ by this Spirit unto the Father and so unto the Throne of Grace and to cry Abba Father 1 Joh. 4. 14-18 19. Rom. 8. 15. Gal. 4. 4-6 Eph. 2. 18. Psal 49. 5. And by this Holy Spirit we may be delivered from the fears of death and though we walk in the midst of the valley of it yet to fear none evil because in the Light and by the Testimony of the Spirit we may see that Christ hath abolished it and destroyed him that had the power of it that is the Devil And will in due time destroy it utterly even this first death Heb. 2. 14 15. Psal 23. 4. 2 Tim. 1. 7-10 And in drinking in and walking after this Spirit we shall
especially in any large measure will enflame the natural heart with love and lustings towards the proper object thereof And therefore David that he might cover his great evil and iniquity made Uriah to eat and drink yea he made him drunk As knowing this was the way to cause him to go down to his Wife and lye with her and though David's policy herein failed him yet therein is signified that this was a proper means to bring to pass his evil and naughty intendment 2 Sam. 11. 11-13 So we may say this Spirit is by way of eminency Wine that wherewith being filled we shall be enflamed with heavenly and Divine Love Hence this Spirit is called the Spirit of Love 2 Tim. 1. 7 and the Love effected in the Believers is called their love in the Spirit Colos 1. 8 and to move the Believers to walk in the Spirit the Apostle tells them The fruit of the Spirit is love This is that which the Holy Spirit doth produce in them in whom it is and abides Gal. 5. 16-22 And so this Spirit doth enflame the heart with love to Jesus Christ and God in him It doth discover make known and shed abroad the love of God in the heart of the Believer even that love that while we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly the Spirit causes to appear the kindness and love of God to man ward in sending his Son the Saviour of the world and of Christ in laying down his life for us and tasting death by the grace of God for every man That this love being seen known and believed by us we might love him who hath so testified love to us with all our hearts and hereby is their love made perfect who know and believe it and that God is love so as they love him because he first loved them Rom. 5. 5-8 Tit. 3. 4 5. 1 Joh. 4. 13-16 17-19 Hereby he makes them sick of love and helps them to cleave to him in love with full purpose of heart Cant. 2. 3 4 5. And in discovering of the excellency and comeliness of Christ of the plenteousness of Redemption in him by his blood even the forgiveness of our sins of the everlasting righteousness brought in by and treasured up in him of the treasures of wisdom and knowledg hid in him of that eternal life given us in him and all things pertaining to life and godliness of the favour of his good ointments wherewith he is anointed as the great Apostle and High-Priest yea of his compleat perfect and universal loveliness hereby the Spirit renders him as an object worthy to be delighted in by the Soul And therefore do the virgins love him He is the He whom their Souls love Cant. 1. 3 4. and 5. 8-16 And this Love is such as is clean and leads to the abhorring all that is evil even whatsoever is forbidden by the Lord and discovered by the light the Spirit in the Testimony to be displeasing and offensive to the beloved Hence whereas God in giving forth his Law at first saith Thou shalt have no other gods before me Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image c. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy c. all is summed up in this short saying elsewhere Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and soul and mind and strength Exod. 20. 3-11 with Deut. 6. 4 5. Matth. 22. 36 37. To signify that the love of the Spirit is such as is exercised in abstaining from and denying all ungodliness and in cleaving unto and following whatsoever is well-pleasing in the sight of the Lord and this Spirit is also purifying the heart from all unclean and filthy love in obeying the truth unto the unfeigned love of the Brethren that they might love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. 1 Joh. 3. 16-18 And this Love thus begotten even by the Spirit in commending Gods love in Christ worketh no ill to ones neighbour and so preserves from Murder Uncleanness Thest bearing False-witness Covetousness Rioting and Drunkenness or any other thing that is contrary to sound Doctrine Rom. 13. 8-13 And also this Spirit in discovering the greatness and extensiveness of the Love of Christ to wit that this One died for all constrains the Believers thereof to love all men even their enemies also Mat. 5. 44 45. 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. 8. Wine is proper to make men free to speak it causes them to be talkative to open their mouths freely in discoursing or speaking about any matter or business So Elihu saith Behold my belly is as Wine which hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles I will speak that I may be refreshed I will open my lips and answer And that which made him so free to speak was this Spiritual Wine we are speaking of He was full of matter and the Spirit within him did constrain him Job 32. 17-20 And thus it was with the Apostles and the residue of the Believers when the Holy Spirit was poured down from on high upon them They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak c. They did freely declare the wonderful works of God And though some foolish ones mocking said These men are full of new wine because they were so free in speaking yet as Peter saith These were not drunken with Wine as they supposed But this was that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel It shall come to pass in the last dayes saith God I will pour out of my Spirit c. Act. 2. 1-4-11-13-17 18. This Spirit will apt and enable us to speak not as men filled with Wine do to wit vain and unprofitable things But it will help us to speak unto God and to pray unto him in Christs name for what we want And to give thanks unto him alwayes for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 5. 18-20 The Spirit in opening the things of Christ unto us helpeth our Infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought But the Spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession according to God Rom. 8. 26 27. And this Spirit will apt and incline us to be speaking unto our selves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual songs Eph. 5. 18 19. To be teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. And to speak unto others even all men or any man we have opportunity to converse with that will hear To speak unto them and make mention of the sufferings of Christ and what he hath thereby done and obtained into himself for every poor sinful creature of mankind And the love of God manifested in Christ to man-ward And in all to make mention of Gods righteousness even of his