This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...but in Eph. iv. 8, t he gave." He received in order that he might give. If Ezek. xsxri. 37. Matt. vii. 7. first place, his Holy Spirit as a " spirit of grace and supplication;" and then, in answer to our prayers, to "pour out his Spirit, even as it were in rivers and floods upon us;"t that so there may be accomplished in us that good work, which it is the Spirit's office to perform, by renovating our souls, and "causing us to walk in God's statutes, and to keep his judgments, and do them."f Then, having obtained this inestimable gift, let us be careful to improve it aright, never "resisting his holy motions," lest we provoke God to "withdraw his Spirit from us," and with holy indignation to swear, that " his Spirit shall strive with us no more"% and that "we shall never enter into his rest." The most important parts of my subject must of necessity be deferred to the remaining opportunities of addressing you. This, which I may call only a prefatory part, I will conclude with that beautiful Collect of our Church, in which the whole that has been brought before you is thus briefly and piously expressed: "Q God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." Zech. xii. 10. t Iaa. xliv. 3. Ezek. xxxvi. 27, Acts vii. 51. Psa. li. 11. If Gen. vi. 3. Heb. iii. 11. ' Collect for Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. SERMON III. ROMANS VIII. 9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. In our two preceding discourses, we touched on points necessary to be considered in order to a just apprehension of our subject; but they were...