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was baptized,came and abode upon Him, dwellingin Christ
fulland entire,and not maimed in any measure or portion;
but with His whole overflowcopiouslydistributedand sent
forth,sothatfrom Him othersmight receivesome enjoyment
of His graces: thesourceof theentireHoly Spiritremaining
in Christ,so thatfrom Him might be drawn streamsof gifts
and works,while the Holy Spiritdwelt affluentlyin Christ.
For trulyIsaiah,prophesyingthis,said: " And the Spirit
of wisdom and understanding shall rest upon Him, the
Spiritof counsel and might,the Spiritof knowledge and
piety; and the Spiritof the fear of the Lord shallfill
Him." 1 This self-samethingalsohe said in the personof
the Lord Himself, in another place: " The Spiritof the
Lord is upon me; because He has anointed me, He has
sent me to preach the gospel to the poor."* Similarly
David : " Wherefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed
Thee with the oilof gladness above Thy fellows."8 Of
Him the Apostle Paul says: " For he who hath not the
Spiritof Christis none of His."4 u And where the Spirit
of the Lord is,thereisliberty."3 He it is who effectswith
water the second birth,as a certainseedof divinegenera
tion,and a consecrationof a heavenly nativity,the pledge
of a promised inheritance,and as it were a kind of hand
writingof eternalsalvation; who can make us God's temple,
and fitus forHis house; who solicitsthe divinehearingfor
us with groaningsthat cannot be uttered,fillingthe offices
of advocacy,and manifestingthe dutiesof our defence,— an
inhabitantgiven forour bodiesand an effectorof theirholi
ness ; who, working in us foreternity,can alsoproduce our
bodies at the resurrectionof immortality,accustomingthem
to be associatedin Himself with heavenlypower, and to be
alliedwith the divineeternityof the Holy Spirit. For our
bodiesareboth trainedin Him and by Him toadvance to im
mortality,by learningto govern themselveswith moderation
according to His decrees. For thisis He who "desireth
againstthe flesh,"because " the fleshresistethagainstthe
1 Isa.xi.2,3. 2 Isa.lxi.1. 1 Ps.xlv.7.
* Rom. viii.9. 5 2 Cor.iii.17.