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spirit_n	aaron_n	garment_n	skirt_n	110	3	11.5156	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60354	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London at Grocers-Hall by Samuel Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3975; ESTC R10144	44,686	50

of the weight and worth of the Subject 1. This anointing of Christ doth signify to us his being perfectly fitted and accomplished for the exercise of Regal Authority and Power for the Office and Work of a King. There is an excellent Spirit upon him many have been in high Places and of low spirits some have had a spirit of Cowardize and others a spirit of Cruelty a sanguinary spirit as well as a Purple-robe Antiochus nick-named Epiphanes was therefore by the Holy Ghost called a vile Person because he was a Prince of a vile base spirit but there is upon Christ a most excellent and glorious Spirit it is no other than the Spirit of the Lord God. He did at his Baptism descend upon him in the likeness of a Dove not of an Hawk or Harpy a Bird of Prey but a Dove Innocent Meek and Loving and this Spirit doth rest upon him hath an eternal abode in him yea and with this Spirit Christ is filled with all the gifts of this Spirit and with all his Graces You read therefore of the unsearchable riches of Christ such as have no bottom He hath enough for himself and for all those that are united to him and designed by the Father for him enough for thee O poor disconsolate Soul who thinkest thou hast none at all You read likewise of an all-fulness which it hath pleased the Father should dwell in him So that O Saint whensoever thou labourest under the most pressing and pinching Wants thou mayest know whither to go for a full supply That is an excellent passage to this purpose which you have in Psal. 47.5 Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy fellows If you ask who those be that are here called his Fellows Some say they are Kings and Priests or rather if you please understand it of the Saints true Believers all of them one and other all those who have received an Unction from the holy one who have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost in his sanctifying Influences and Operations These come to be Christs fellows through his most gracious Condescention for he by assuming their Nature into unity with his Person stooped so low as to become one of them Emanuel God with us He graciously descended to the state of their Mortality and Meanness that they through him might be advanced to a state of Immortality and Glory If it be asked what is that oyl of gladness with which he is anointed The answer is ready It is no other than the Divine Spirit the great and effectual Comforter who doth chear refresh revive and make glad the Heart of those in whom he dwells And of this all the Saints of God are made the blessed Partakers 1 Joh. 2.20 Ye have an Unction from the holy-one not only the gifts of the Spirit Wisdom and Grace but the Spirit himself which is if I may use the Expression diffused through the whole mystical Body so that every real living Member hath a share Rom. 8.9 If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his he doth not belong to Christ he is none of his genuine Disciple But now tho there be a joynt Participation the same Spirit is in Christ and Believers the same Soul in the Head and Members Yet there is a difference as to the Measure and Degree thereof All the holy Oyl was poured out upon the head of Aaron but only some part of it reached down to the Skirts of his Garments All the Saints have the Spirit something of his Light and Life of his Grace and Influence but Christ hath unspeakably more He is seated above them and therefore anointed above them He hath a greater fulness of Office than any of them and therefore a greater fulness of the Spirit He receiveth the Spirit not only for himself but for all and every one of them God the Father in pouring of it out upon him had an Eye and respect to all the Cases Imployments Necessities and Wants of all his chosen and beloved Ones and furnished Christ accordingly We find in one place that when he ascended on high he received Gifts for Men in another we read that he gave Gifts to Men. He received for this end that he might give His Work is to communicate and to influence his People He is to be an Head not only for Eminence but likewise for Influence and as this is his Work so blessed be his Name it is his Delight Never did tender Mother take more pleasure in giving her Breast to her Child than Christ doth take in his Communications to his People Upon these accounts as it was fit and necessary that he should be so he is most richly stored He hath not the Spirit in measure so you find Joh. 3.34 He whom God hath sent speaketh the word of God for God giveth not the Spirit by measure to him i. e. He whom God hath sent out of Heaven to Earth he whom God hath sent out of his own Bosom he speaketh the Word of God that and nothing else he speaks it in another manner than ever any did for he had not the Spirit given him by measure all men else that have received this Spirit have it in measure only so much every one and no more Tho we may know to our comfort that measure is meted out with a most wise judicious and gracious Hand in a just and full Proportion to that place which every one holds in the Body and to that Work and Service which every one hath to do in the World but the Spirit was given to Christ without measure God the Father did not stand upon measuring it out to him no no he poured it out abundantly he gave as much to him as his humane Nature was capable of receiving so that he hath not only enough for himself for the acting of his own part and the bearing his own burden but enough too for all his People in all Places and Ages of the World. He hath Wisdom enough to teach them all that is needful for them to know and to direct and lead them into all those ways in which they ought to walk He hath Grace enough to sanctify them and to fit them for a Communion with his Father and himself while they are upon Earth and to make them compleatly holy and so meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light. He hath Power enough to support them under all their Burdens so that they shall break neither their Backs nor their Hearts but they shall bear them patiently and carry themselves under them becomingly Power enough to enable them for all their Duties so that they shall perform them to Acceptance and Praise Power enough to secure them in all their Temptations and to carry them through them and to make them more than Conquerors over them and so to carry them from sore Conflicts to glorious Triumphs