1 Thes 1. 6. For this the Apostle made mention of these Believers in his prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of Glory would give them the Spirit of wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge and for the acknowledgment of him The eyes of their understanding being enlightned that they may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints c. Eph. 1. 16-19 And good encouragement have we to pray that we may be filled with this blessed Spirit because our Lord Jesus the last Adam who by the Grace of God tasted death for every man and is raised again for their justification is made a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. And hath the Spirit given immeasurably to him Joh. 3. 34 35. And also prays the Father to give the Holy Spirit to them that ask it in his name while they pray on earth he prayes in Heaven for them And hath also promised that abiding in him and his words abiding in them they may ask what they will and it shall be done unto them He will do it for them Joh. 14. 13-16 17. and chap. 15. 7. Oh then Restrain we not our prayers but as he hath encouraged and given us liberty let him see our countenance and hear our voice And let us come boldly to the throne of Grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need Cant. 2. 14. Heb. 4. 14-16 6. And lastly That we may be more and more abundantly filled with the Spirit walk we in and after it mind we the things of the Spirit the things of Christ which the Spirit takes and shews unto us And be we led by the Spirit and yield up to his operations so shall we not fulful the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5. 16. But be helped continually to mortify them and put them to death Rom. 8. 13. Col. 3. 5. And whatever this Holy Spirit is working in us to will and do let us do all things without murmuring and disputing It will produce nothing hurtful in us For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 8 9. Oh! Quench not this Spirit but let it inflame your hearts with love to Christ and God in him and to Men and Brethren according to his Instructions and operations and fill you with joy and peace in believing And effect in you Long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance Gal. 5. 16-22 And smother not this blessed Spirit but work out that Salvation he is working in you with fear and trembling make confession and hold forth the profession of the faith unto salvation without wavering And fear not the reproach of men nor be afraid of their fear Follow the leading of this Spirit without doubting where-ever or unto whatsoever it leads you Act. 11. 12. Rom. 8. 14. Have in usefulness what God hath given to you For to him that hath shall be given and he shall have more abundantly But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath Matth. 13. 12. And sow to this blessed Spirit in labours of love according to your capacity and ability make not your bellies your gods For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption everlasting corruption But he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not As we have therefore opportunity let us do good to all men especially to the houshold of faith Gal. 6. 6-10 If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul Then shall thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness shall be as the noon-day And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy Soul in droughts and make fat thy bones And thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not Isa 58. 7-11 Consider what is said and the Lord give us understanding in all things And the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with us all Amen The END
of Wounds as appears Luk. 10. 34 So it is certainly true concerning this Spiritual Wine It is proper to wash us from all our pollution and defilements and to cleanse and heal the Spiritual Maladies of our Souls This is therefore called frequently the Holy Spirit not only to denote that he is so in himself but in his work also to sanctify us by bearing witness of and sprinkling and applying the Blood of the true Vine even of Christ unto us Hence the Apostle declaring what filthy and poluted creatures some of the Corinthians were he saith They were washed and sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 9-11 And the Lord doth wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purge the blood of Jerusalem by the Spirit of judgment and by the Spirit of burning so that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy Isa 4. 3 4. And the Baptist doth declare unto us that this is the work of Jesus Christ to Baptize and wash men with the Holy Spirit Mar 1. 8. And the sanctifying men separating them from their polutions and dedicating them unto God is attributed to the Spirit as his proper work 2 Thes 2. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 1 2. And so also in and by the Gospel of Christ which is called Spirit as we have seen Christ doth give us an escape from the pollutions of the world And it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth even to save them from their sins Rom. 1. 16. Now are ye clean saith our Saviour through the word that I have spoken unto you Joh. 15. 1-3 And hereby may a young man who is most apt and inclinable to pollution cleanse his way his works walkings and garments Psal 119. 9 And they that are undefiled and sincere in the way who walk in the Law of the Lord they also do no iniquity Psal 119. 1-3 with Gal. 5. 16 17. Oh! this is Wine indeed to cleanse and rinse us from whatsoever is polluting and defiling to us to wash our Garments and make them white and therefore those who live in the Spirit are instructed to walk in it also whereby they shall be enabled to mortify the deeds of the body and as he who hath called them is holy so also to be holy in all manner of conversation Gal. 5. 25. Rom. 8. 13. 3. Wine moderately taken is proper to quench the thirst and so to allay and remove the torment and affliction thereby caused unto a man which is very great so as it causes their tongues to fail and cleave to the roof of their mouths Isa 41. 17. Lam. 4. 4. Thirst causes the youngest and strongest to faint Amos 8. 13. And even to die Exod. 17. 3. Judg. 15. 8. But now Wine is proper to asswage and quench it Hence it is given as one Branch of the description of Covetous worldly men that have no power to enjoy what God gives them they tread their Wine-presses and suffer thirst Intimating they refrain from and deny themselves that which would quench their thirst Job 24. 11. And the thirsty person is invited to buy Wine to quench his thirst and satisfy him Isa 55. 1 2. So we may say of the Spirit it is Wine in a most eminent consideration in this respect viz. to quench the thirst of the Soul and Spirit which no other Drink or Wine will do all other things are such as will not satisfy but herewith our Souls may delight themselves and be abundantly satisfied even every or any poor thirsty Soul Isa 55. 1 2 3. Hence our Saviour in the last day the great day of the Feast of Tabernacles stood and cried saying If any man thirst which he might do notwithstanding that Feast let him come unto me and drink But this spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive c. Joh. 7. 37-39 And indeed such is the excellency of this Heavenly and Spiritual Wine that it doth not simply quench the thirst of the Soul but so abundantly satisfy it as that in continually drinking in hereof a man shall be preserved from thirsting after any other Wine and he that cometh unto Christ continually unto whom God hath not given the Spirit by measure shall never thirst Joh. 6. 35. This will take off his desire and appetite from all stolen-waters of Wine of violence from lusting after such things as our natural Spirit is thirsting for As our Saviour saith in another Metaphor Whosoever drinketh of any other water shall thirst again But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him of this Aquavitoe this blessed Spirit Isa 44. 3. shall never thirst to wit after any other kind or number of Drink But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of living water springing up to everlasting life Joh. 4. 10-13 14. Such shall be inebriated and fully satisfied with the fatness of his house and he will make them drink of the River of his pleasures for with him is the Fountain of life Psal 36. 7-9 Oh! Such a Feast hath God prepared for us in Christ such Wines on the Lees well refined whereto this Holy Spirit is directing us and which it is bringing nigh unto us in the Gospel that were we feeding on and drinking in hereof our Souls would be so contented and satisfied as that all excess in natural Wine or Strong Drink would be bitter to us and we should loath and not lust after perishing deceitful things which cannot profit nor satisfy us because they are vain In Christ whom this Holy Spirit glorifies and of whose things he receives and shews unto us it hath pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell and therefore there is an emptiness in all other things And in drinking in of this Spirit we should be helped to see and say and set our Seals to the truth of that saying of the Wisdom of God by the wisest of meer men Vanity of vanities vanity of vanities all is vanity and vexation of Spirit Eccles 1. 2. and 2. 1 II Colos 1. 19. 4. Because as Wine doth make one forget ones poverty and remember their misery no more Prov. 31. 7 and doth comfort chear and make merry the heart of man Judg. 9. 13. Plal. 104. 15. Eccles 10. 19. So eminently the Spirit is Wine indeed and answers to though it inconceivably excels all other Wine It is proper to heal the broken-hearted and bind up all their griefs and to comfort all that mourn and doth comfort them that drink it in with everlasting Consolations It gives unto them beauty for ashes the Oyl of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness Isa 61. 1-3 Luk. 4. 18. Hence the Holy Spirit is called the Comforter because it is his work and office to comfort in all tribulations and trials and to make the
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
only 1 Joh. 4. 13 14 15. Act. 5. 29-32 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment The Law of his God even the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is in his heart Psal 37. 30 31. with Rom. 8. 2. This Holy Spirit doth open Wisdoms words to those that turn at her reproofs so as they may speak with understanding to others and is like Wine within them that receive and drink it in to constrain them to speak what they have seen and heard Prov. 1. 23. Act. 4. 19 20. And they who are filled with it are full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of might to declare unto others their transgressions and sins as they have instruction opportunity and capacity Micah 3. 7 8. In such like respects this Holy Spirit doth answer unto and yet infinitely exceed all Wine whatsoever and is therefore compared thereunto But we shall add no more to this second thing but now we come to speak unto the third Namely III. What it is to be filled with the Spirit And surely that is more and a further business than to receive this blessed Spirit which these had done and all Believers do in receiving the hearing or report of faith Gal. 3. 2. For if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his viz. in a peculiar consideration Rom. 8. 9 which surely these Believers were as doth plentifully appear in the former part of the Epistle Yea and after they Believed they were Sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of the Apostles inheritance They had this holy Spirit in a first fruits and as a a first fruits of the harvest and as a pledg and assurance that in abiding in Christ they should in due time gloriously injoy that inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and which fadeth not away reserved in the heavens for them who are kept by the power of God through faith unto the salvation ready to be revealed in these last dayes Eph. 1. 13 14. with 1 Pet. 1. 3-5 By this Spirit they were Sealed and marked out unto the day of redemption Eph. 4. 30. with Exod. 12. 23. They were built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone In whom they were builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit and so they were brought and Baptized into the unity of the Spirit Eph. 2. 17-22 and 4. 2 3 4. And yet still as a further business or as to a further degree he exhorts them Be ye filled for a man may be and so might they be somewhat filled or in some measure filled therewith as Rom. 15. 24 and yet the Apostle might exhort them to be filled therewith in a greater measure or to an higher degree to be exceedingly filled as Psal 123. 3 4. But before we speak more particularly hereto we may say this Phrase of being filled with the Spirit or Holy Ghost is used in a double sense in the Scripture That is to say 1. Sometimes it means a being filled therewith after an extraordinary manner so as to be enabled thereby or furnished therewith unto extraordinary things as in former times he so filled Bezaleel and Aholiab c. for making the Priests garments the Tabernacle c. Exod. 28. 3 4. and 31. 3. and 35. 31-35 So others were filled with the Holy Spirit to enable them to Prophesy and foretel things to come Luk. 1. 41 67. And after the Ascension of Christ some were filled with the Holy Ghost and spake with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance And wrought many signs and wonders amongst the people c. Act. 2. 4. and 4. 30 31. and 6. 5 8. But now in this sense the Apostle here intends it not For he doth suppose that all these Believers might be filled in some sense with the Spirit and that shews he intends it not after an extraordinary manner as well as also so much is signified by the manner of expression in that he gives us to understand somewhat was required of them hereto and therefore exhorts them Be ye filled 2. But we are here to understand it as all hearty and unfeigned Believers may be filled with it as Sons of God by faith in Jesus Christ Gal. 4. 6. And so indeed the being filled herewith is somewhat which though opposed to yet doth answer unto being Drunken in the former part of the verse as being full of or filled with Wine and Drunken are used indifferently the one for the other as before we have said and as may be seen Act. 2. 13-15 Now as Wine may be in a man and yet a man may not be Drunken so the Spirit may be in a Believer and yet he not filled therewith as here exhorted to But as a man is said to be Drunken or filled with Wine when he is in Wine or Strong Drink so a man may be said to be filled with the Spirit when he is in the Spirit I mean not extraordinarily Rev. 1. 10. and 4. 1 2. but as all Believers may be As the Apostle saith Ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you Rom. 8. 9 10. And indeed then a man may be said to be filled with it when the word of Christ and Spirit therein dwell richly plenteously and abundantly in him in the full of the Testimony of Jesus Christ as is expressed in another place which is like unto this Col. 3. 16. And so we may say a little particularly As a man when he is Drunken is said to be overcome with Wine Isa 28. 1. Jer. 23. 9 10. So a man is then said to be filled with the Spirit when he is overcome therewith and led and ordered thereby in all things as the Apostle saith As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God not only so as to their state but as to their excercise and demeanour also and not only is the Spirit in such an one but also he is in the Spirit Rom. 8. 14. with vers 9. as it is said of Christ He being full of the Holy Spirit was led by the Spirit c. Luk. 4. 1. Now the work of this Holy Spirit is to lead us out of our selves out of our own wisdom wills designs affections and enterprizes into Jesus Christ for all Unto him for all wisdom that we may be made wise unto salvation For in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg 1 Cor. 1. 23 24. and 22. Col. 2. 3. Unto him for all righteousness for all forgiveness of our sins and acceptation in this beloved one putting him on by faith a a robe of righteousness to appear before God in in whom is everlasting righteousness Isa 45. 24 and who is Jehovah our righteousness Jer. 23. 6 unto him as our holiness that we may be washed and
sanctified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Joh. 13. 8 Unto him as our redemption to free us and set us at liberty in our minds from all bondage and thraldom whatsoever whether to sin death Satan an evil conscience Law world or whatever we are naturally inslaved withal Joh. 8. 31 32 36. Rom. 8. 1 2 3. Gal. 5. 1 13. 1 Cor. 1. 29-31 The work of this Holy Spirit is to lift up and glorify Jesus Christ that we may run unto him continually as to that good and only foundation of faith and hope Isa 28. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 4-7 As to the fountain of light and teaching who is the light of the world the Son of righteousness Joh. 8. 12. Matth. 4. 2. To him as the matter of our feeding who is the living bread and the bread that he giveth is his flesh which he hath given for the life of the world Joh. 6. 35. 51-58 So as to have our life in him and he to be our life the life of our Souls and Spirits to be our self as it were Gal. 2. 20. Colos 3. 3 4. And they are in some measure filled with this Spirit who are not led by themselves as men but led and guided by this heavenly Wine so as they suffer the loss of all things and go on to count them as dung that they may gain Christ and be found in him that Christ may be all unto them as the life of their Spirits Philip. 3. 7-9 When they are overcome of this Spirit and subdued and conquered by it to be under its regiment and government and being brought out of themselves are translated and removed into Jesus Christ who is the beginning of the creation of God And so live in the Spirit Gal. 5. 25 and are new Creatures 2 Cor. 5 14 17. Eph. 2. 10. and helped to reckon themselves in and after Jesus Christ Rom. 6. 3-11 Col. 2. 12. And then men may be said to be Filled with the Spirit when they grow up into the knowledg of Christ in all things so as that He in the full of the Testimony is formed in them Gal. 4. 19. And they are filled with the knowledg of Gods will in all wisdom and Spiritual understanding Col. 1. 10. And have through the knowledg of Christ in the Gospel a right judgment concerning all things effected in them He that is Spiritual judgeth discerneth all things yet he himself is judged discerned of no man 1 Cor. 2. 13-15 16. and chap. 3. 1 2. For this the Apostle prayes for these Ephesian Believers that the God of our Lord Jesus the Father of Glory would give unto them the spirit of wisdom and Revelation in the knowledg of Christ the eyes of their understandings being enlightned that they might know what is the hope of his calling c. This he prayed for them who were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise after they believed Eph. 1. 13-17 18-23 and 4. 30. And when as the consequent of the former the Believers are established in the faith and rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ standing fastly and firmly in him For this the Apostle also prays for these Believers That God would grant them according to the riches of his glory to be strengthned with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ migh dwell in their hearts by faith That they being rooted and grounded in love might be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledg That so they might be filled whth all the fulness of God Eph. 3. 16 17-19 And unto this the Apostle exhorts the believing Colossions that they would walk in Christ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as they had been taught c. Colos 2. 6 7. And when also with the former they are filled with joy and spiritual mirth and have a merry heart effected in them rejoycing in Christ Jesus rejoycing with joy unspeakable and full of glory and having no confidence in the flesh rejoycing in Christ in his Cross and what he hath thereby done for us and obtained into himself and is become and is and in what he is now doing both from Heaven in the name of the Father and in the anointing of the Holy Spirit to us and in Heaven with the father for us and what he will do hereafter As a man when he is in Wine his heart is made merry and chearful therewith he remembers not his former or present poverty affliction and misery but he sings and rejoyces So also it is here in a spiritual consideration This Heavenly Wine being largely drunk in by us will cause our hearts to rejoyce as through Wine even to rejoyce in the Lord Zech. 10. 7. So here the Apostle exhorts these Believers Be ye filled with the spirit singing and making melody in your hearts c. Eph. 5. 18 19 Giving thanks alwayes for all things not only at some times and for such things as our natural spirit is desiring and pleased withall but for those things which seem to be grievous unto us also unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ vers 20. In being filled with this Spirit they are filled with joy and peace with joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14. 17. and 15. 13. And whatever occasions of sorrow and sadness they have as with respect to the temptations trials and troubles which they here meet with and depravations which are ordered to them Though their belly trembles and lips quiver and rottentess enters into their bones c. Yet they rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of their salvation and even glorify him in the fires Habbak 3. 16-19 Isa 24. 7-14 15 1 Pet. 1. 6-8 Psal 89. 15. 16. Prov. 15. 15. And then they may be said to be Filled with the Spirit when they walk in Christ Jesus as they have received him and through this blessed Spirit crucify continually the lusts and affections of the Flesh Mortify their members which are upon the earth then are they led by this holy Spirit as the Apostle signifies when he saith If ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live For as many as are led by the spirit of God they are the Sons of God intimating to us that such as these are in and led by the Spirit Rom. 8. 7-9 13 14. Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5. 16 17. If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit let us not be desirous of vain-glory provoking one another envying one another vers 24 25 26. To this the Apostle exhorts these Believers That they put off as concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts To put away lying To be angry