To give one instance more: the Holy Ghost bestowed on
believers is a Spirit of prayer and supplication; as was manifested. The
spirit wherewith we have to do, pretends the carrying men above such low
and contemptible means of communion with God. In a word, it were a very
easy and facile task, to pass through all of the eminent effects of the
Holy Ghost in and towards believers, and to manifest that the pretending
spirit of our days comes in a direct opposition and contradiction to every
one of them. Thus hath Satan passed from one extreme to another, — from a
bitter, wretched opposition to the Spirit of Christ, unto a cursed
pretending to the Spirit; still to the same end and purpose.