A. Yes. S. John xv. 26. 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.

Q. Is he properly a Perfon, i.e. an intellectual and individual Subftance?

A. Yes. For else he could not fanctify us, as he is faid to do. Rom. xv. 16. Nor could we grieve or offend him, as we are required not to do. Eph. iv. 30.

Q. Is he a Perfon that is diftinct from both the Father and the Son?

A. Yes. For he proceedeth from the one, and is fent by the other. John xV. 16.

Q. Is he a Divine Perfon, having the fame Nature with the Father and the Son?

A. Yes. For these three are one. 1 John v. 7. The Scripture faith of him, that he fearcheth all things, yea the deep things of God. 1 Cor. ii. 10. And he is exprefly called God. Ch. iii. 16.

Q. Why is he called a Spirit ? Is this spoken of why called his Nature? a Spirit. A. No. For fo the Father is a Spirit, and the Son a Spirit. John iv. 24.

Q. Or is it fpoken of his Person ?

A. Yes. For his perfonal Property, or proper Manner of fubfifting, is to proceed or fpire forth, from both the Father and the Son; and fo, in the Pfalms, he is called the Breath of God. Pf. xxxiii. 6. I 3

Q. Why

Why Holy.

His Works Extraordi sary.

Ordinary.

Q Why is he called Holy? Is not this to denote his Office, which is to fanctify his Church and People?

A. Yes. I Cor. vi. 11. But ye are washed, but ye are fanctified, but ye are juftified in the Name of the Lord Jefus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Q. To this End, viz. the Sanctifying of God's Elect, did he not work or operate in an extraor dinary Manner in the Beginning of the Gofpel?

A. Yes. For he gave to the Church then, firft, Apostles, fecondly, Prophets, thirdly, Teachers (or Evangelifts,) and endowed them with extraordinary, and miraculous Gifts and Powers, for the Work of the Miniftry, for the Perfecting of the Saints, for the Edifying of the Body of Chrift. Eph.iv.11.

Q. And did he not infpire the Minds of holy Men of old, to write the Holy Scriptures for our Sanctification?

A. Yes. 2 Tim. iii. 16. All Scripture is given by Infpiration of God, and is profitable for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Corre&tion, for Instruction in Righteousness. And 2 Pet. i. 2. Holy Men of God fpake as they were moved by the Holy Ghoft.

Q Thefe extraordinary Gifts and Offices of the Holy Ghoft, being now not neceffary, are not continued in the Church. But does he not ftill continue his ordinary Operations, whereby he still fanctifies his Church, and chofen ones?

A. Yes. For Chrift loved the Church,and gave himself for it, that he might fanctify and

and cleanfe it by the Waihing of Water by the Word. Eph. v. 25, 26. And Titus iii. 5. According to his Mercy he faved us, by the Washing of Regeneration, and Renewing of the Holy Ghoft.

Q. In this Work of Sanctification, wrought by In what the Holy Ghoft, does he not herein,

1. Enlighten the Understanding

2. Rectify the Will?

3. Govern and guide our A

Etions?

A. Yes. He is the Spirit

of Wisdom and Revelation.
Eph. i. 17.

A. Yes. It is He that
worketh in us both to will
and to do of his good Plea-
fure. Phil. ii. 13.

A. Yes. Ps. xxxvii. 23. The Lord ordereth a good Man'sSteps,and maketh his Ways perfect. And Gal. v. 25. The Apostle exhorteth to walk in the Spirit, i. e. to follow his Guidance and Manuduction.

Q. What are the outward Means of our SanEtification? Are they not chiefly,

..f f A. Yes. Luke xi. 13. If ye

being evil, know how to give good Gifts unto your Children, 1. Prayer? how much more shall your Heavenly Father, give the Holy Spirit unto them that ask him?

A. Yes. John xvii. 17. San

2. The Word? &tify them through thy Truth, thy Word is Truth.

3. The

Way be fan &ifies.

By what

outward Means.

Applica tion.

The Sacra-
ments?

A. Yes. For as the Catechifm defçribes the Sacraments, they are not only Signs but alfo Means of Grace, the one of Regeneration, or the New Birth; the other of Nutrition, Lor Growth in Grace.

Catechift. Let us remember then, that as God is our Maker, and Chrift is our Redeemer, fo likewife the Holy Ghoft is our SanAtifier, and that it is his immediate Work to cure and cleanse our Souls. Accordingly, as it is our Duty, let us give up ourselves to him, to be cured and cleanfed by him of our Difeafes and Defilements. Let us refolve in no Cafe either to tempt or grieve him, by any Difobedience in Heart, Speech or Beha viour. But let us yield to his bleffed Motions, hearken to his Admonitions, and be led and ruled by him, as our Guide and Governor. And for as much as his Holy Word, Prayer and Sacraments are especial outward Means of Grace and Sanctification, let us diligently attend upon him in the Ufe of these his Ordinances, having this Word of Promise that our Labour fhall not be in vain in the Lord.

Sect. 9. Of the ninth Article of the Creed, and therein of the Church, and one Privilege thereof.

"The Holy Catholick Church, the Com

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munion of Saints,

Cate

Catechift. Though all who are fanctified by the Holy Ghoft, and faved,even all the elect People of God, are but few comparatively to them that Chrift hath ranfomed, even all Mankind, as they alfo are but few in refpect to all the other Creatures, yet we must believe that there are always fome fuch Perfons, whom the Holy Ghost doth fanctify by Faith that is in Chrift; and these are called the Holy Catholick Church, i. e. the Body or Society of all true Chriftian People.

This Society is Catholick, i.e. to fay, Univerfal, because it comprehends all the Company of true Believers, that ever were, are, or fhall be hereafter, whether militant here on Earth, or triumphant in Heaven. And holy it alfo is, because the true Members of it, are all united to Chrift their Head, and by his Grace and Holy Spirit are fanctified here in part, and will hereafter be perfectly fo in Heaven.

But as in a great House there are, not only Veffels of Gold and of Silver, but also of Wood, and of Earth, and of Stone, and fome to Honour, and fome to Difhonour, fa in the Church of Chrift, there are not only Tome that are truly holy Perfons, but there are alfo many Hypocrites, and false Profes fors of Christianity, having a Form of Godlinefs, but not the Truth and Power of it.

Now the Catholick Church of Christ, as it is visible unto Men, confifts of all thefe Profeffors, both true and false; altho' in Truth the latter fort are rather in, than of the Church, and are no true Parts, or living Members of it. And amongst thefe, as

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