v. 16. And again, If we live in the Spirit, let us alfo walk in the Spirit, Chap. v. 25. Again he fpeaks faying, My little Children, of whom I travail in Birth again 'till Christ be formed in you, Chap iv. 19. And he tells them, As many of you as are baptized into Chrift, have put on Chrift, Chap. iii. 27. And yet again he teaches them, That we might receive the Promife of the Spirit thro' Faith, Chap. iii. 14. So St. Peter alfo writes to them who are affected and troubled in Chrift's Caufe, faying, If ye be reproached for the Name of Chrift happy are you, for the Spirit of Glory, and of GOD refteth upon you, 1 Pet. iv.. 14. And the fame Apoftle teaches, faying, Sanctify the Lord GOD in your Hearts, and be ready always to give an Answer to every Man that asketh you a Reafon of the Hope that is in you, with Meeknefs and Fear, 1 Pet iii. 15. So in another of his Epiftles he faith, There are given. unto us exceeding great and precious Promifes, that by thefe you might be Partakers of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. i. 4. So alfo, fpeaking of the Voice which came to him when he was on Mount Tabor at Jefus Transfiguration, he faith, You have alfo a more fure Word of Prophecy; whereunto you do well that ye take heed, as unto a Light that shineth in a dark Place, until the Day dawn,, and the Day-Star arife in your Hearts, 2 Pet. i.. 19. Now the Day-Star, or Morning-Star,, is Chrift, fee Rev. xxii. 16. To which also agreeth the Promife, To him that overcometh (and this is the Victory whereby we overcome, even our Faith) will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white Stone, and in the Stone a new Name written, which no Man knoweth, faving be that receiveth it. And I will give him the Morning Star, Rev. 1. 17, 28. And the fame Saint,

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who wrote thefe Things, faith in his Epiftle, Ye have an Unction from the Holy One. And in the fame Place, but the Anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, 1 John ii. 20, 27. And adds, Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the World, John iv. 4. And again, He that keepeth his Commandments dwelleth in him, and be in him, Chap. iii. 24. So in like manner Paul writing to the Coloffians faith, Chrift in you the Hope of Glory, Chap. i. 27. And adds, As ye have received Chrift, fo walk ye in him, Chap. ii. 6. So to Titus he faith, He faved us by the washing of Regeneration, and by renewing of the Holy Ghost which he fhed on us abundantly thro' Jefus Christ our Saviour, Tit. iii. 5, 6. So St. Jude alfo exhorts, faying, Ye Beloved building up yourfelves on your most Holy Faith, praying in the Holy Ghoft, Jude 20. Yea and the Apostle Paul asks closely, Know ye not your ownfelves, how that Fefus Christ is in you, except ye be Reprobates? 2 Cor. xiii. 5. To all the Scriptures I have already quoted, I yet add a few of our Saviour's own Words, that thefe Doctrines may be more and more established.

Now when the Pharifees heard John, and Fefus himself preach of the Coming of the Kingdom of GOD, they asked Felus, faying, When will the Kingdom of GOD come? To whom he anfwered, The Kingdom of GOD is within you, Luke xvii. 21. And again he faid, If ye then being evil, know how to give good Gifts unto your Children: bow much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him, Luke xi. 13. Again he taught faying, If any Man, or, Whofoever drinketh of the Water that I shall give bim, hall never thirst; but the Water that I shall give him, shall be in him a Well of Water Springing

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up into everlafting Life, John iv. 14. And in another Place he faith, He that eateth my Flesh, and drinketh my Blood, dwelleth in me and I in him, John vi. 56. And again he faid to his Difciples, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of Truth, whom the World cannot receive, because it feeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him, for be dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come unto you. Yet a little while and the World feeth me no more, but ye fee me, because I live, ye shall live also. At that Day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. He that hath my Commandments, and keepeth them, be it is that loveth me, and be that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifeft my felf to him. Judas Jaith unto him (not Iicariot) Lord how is it that thou wilt manifeft thyself to us, and not unto the World? FeJus anfwered and faid unto him, if a Man love. me, he will keep my Words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make oar Abode with him, John xiv. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. In the next Chapter he faith, When the Comforter is come, whom I will fend unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. John xv. 26. And again, If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I will fend him unto you, John xvi. 7. And as John before prophefied when he faid, He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire, Mat. iii. 11. So Fefus himself faid when he was rifen from the Dead, even in the Day when he was taken up into Heaven, Te shall be baptized with

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the Holy Ghoft not many Days hence, As i. 5. And because the most of these Scriptures which promise the Gift of the Holy Ghost, may by fome be fuppos'd to limit it only to the Chriftians of the Primitive Church: I add what St. Peter once uttered by the Spirit of GOD, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Fefus Chrift for the Remiffion of Sins, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost. For the Promife is unto you, and to your Children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our GOD fhall call, Acts ii. 38, 39. It is furely impoffible, that any ferious impartial Man can read this, and yet fay all, as many as the Lord our GOD hall call, means only thofe in the firft Age of the Church. The Prophecy of Foel which the Apostle made mention of alfo muft confute this Error: because he faith, in the laft Days will I pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh. For if the Apostles Days were called laft Days, then much more may thefe claim the Promife of his Spirit. And again, if the Lord had meant only to have given his Spirit to the first Chriftians, then he would not have faid, He fhall abide with you for ever. And in another Place, always, even to the End of the World. But yet fhould any be ftill fo blind as not to allow thefe Things fo, I fhall hereafter, both from the Doctrines, and Letters of the Martyrs, prove they had the Spirit of GOD; and' taught it to other Chriftians as their neceffary Privilege; and alfo from the Doctrines, and Prayers of our own Church, I intend to fhew our Fathers of latter Days believed the fame Things, and fhew yet more plain, that he who can deny, or be void of the Holy Spirit, he is fo far from being a good Churchman, or true Proteftant, that' he really is no Christian,

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Firft, then, I would prove, that the Martyrs both had the Spirit themfelves, and pray'd for it; and alfo taught it the neceffary Privilege of every true Believer.

In the Hiftory of the Martyrdom of John Badby, who fuffered in Smithfield under Hen. IV. the Author writes, that when the Prince came to the Place of his Burning, and exhorted him to get out of his Opinions, "he was no doubt more in"flained with the Spirit of God, than with any "earthly Defire." The Church of Lyons alfo writing to certain Brethren in Afia, of the Perfecutions which they fuffer'd, fays of one Vetius Epagathus," He had within him the fervent "Zeal of Love, and Spirit of GOD." Alfo mentioning more who then fuffer'd, faith, "Thefe

Men were refresh'd with the Joy of Martyr"dom, the Hope of GOD's Promiles, the Love "towards Chrift, and the Spirit of GOD." So fpeaking of fome good Men who endur'd much Hardship in Prifon, one faith," They were not "deftitute of the Grace of GOD, but had the "holy Spirit of GOD to be their Inftructor." John Mollins who was martyr'd at Rome, hath this written of him, "He was fraught with a "mighty Fervency of GOD's holy Spirit." So in the Hiftory of the Three who fuffer'd Death for destroying the Rood of Dover-court, it is faid, They were moved by the Spirit of GOD." In. Bifhop Hooper's Life, the Writer faith, "As "there lacked in him no Diligence, join'd with "earnest Prayer, fo neither wanted unto him the "Grace of the holy Spirit, to fatisfy his Defire, "and to open to him the Light of true Divinity." In the Hiftory of Thomas Tomkins Martyr, it is written, that when he was brought before Bonner who rag'd greatly against him, "He was fo in

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