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ght in the spirit, by the Itoly Spirit which he was to %^.nA imto them* And not until he went away, tiUi the Holy Spirit comt; in tho plenitude of hiM inspiration to build vp the church upon the foundation of Christ Jcitus; --which ho did iuthe beginning, by giving outward Tisiblc demonstrations of h>« power and operations, in Uie gifts of tongue^, in the gil^s of healing, in the g^(\fi of interpretation, in the gifts of prophesying, and whaterer other miraculous endowments the primitive church was clothed withal' Now, understand you that these Tisiblo and noticeable acts of the Spirit were to s<^ve the samf) end as the Incarnation of Christ, were, so to speak, his Incarnation, or thodoe visible and noticeable things which might make his offices a historical fact in the church, which might be re- ported unto us, in order to strcnc^thcn our faith in the Holy Spirit, and teach us by outward em- blems, what bis offices were; by the gift of tongues teaching us that the^^pirit ia a mouth and a toQ},''nc unto the believing soul, an^) the liarmo- ntxerof all tongues into one; by thegiftofhcalinf?, that he is a healer and comforter to the soul ; by the Rift of inierprctatioD, that he is the interpreter of the word of ('hrint, taking it and shewing it unto our souls, by the gift of proplwsying, that he is the spirit of the Christian mini«try ;— and so forth, ihrou(jh all his spiritual offices, which, that they might be realized in historical and infLrTcllous manner, took these miraculous forms to begiD 1222 MIELAXD'fi KVJL COXDITION. [Atf, witli, even 03 Cliriil took a b<>Jy of flesh and blood to bepin his medintoriat work withal. Now^ observe how th^y ha?e made void ihi* doctrine by tlieir sensualitit!?^. Fir&t, they have inude Ihat manifeaiation of tlie Spirit to the sense of mnn perpetual, holding miracles of all kinds to be in the churcl) unto this day, and so mnktof; the Holy Spirit vUjbIc, as tbey have made the Father and the Son. In the second place, tlicy have t»lcen away hU oflicp of intevpreting the word, Biid giveu tt Lu thu visible church, whose opinion and jud^ent, though we are much to revere tbcnt, we dare not take as the voice of God. Thirdly, they have taken away his office of con* vincing the soul of sin, and movmg il to pntycr* by raiding confession to a sacrament, and making Ttsiblc catalogues of all sin^, and of their pur- gatioiu; whereas confession, and the roceivin;;; of confeseion^ and the absolution of the aouI, are all the work of the Spirit. And as to the workiup o