30. Esaias too, with his majestic voice,
says, And the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him,
the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge
and godliness; and the Spirit of the fear of God shall fill
Him Is. xi. 2.; signifying
that the Spirit is one and undivided, but His operations various.
So again, Jacob My servant,…..I have put My Spirit upon
Him Ib. xliv.
1; xlii. 1.. And again,
I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed Ib. xliv.
3.;
and again, And now the Lord Almighty and His Spirit hath sent
Me Ib. xlviii.
16.; and again, This
is My covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit which is upon
thee Is. lix. 21.; and again, The
Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me Is. lxi. 1., and the rest; and again in his charge
against the Jews, But they rebelled and vexed His Holy
Spirit Ib. lxiii.
10., and Where is He
that put His Holy Spirit within them v.
11.? Also thou hast in Ezekiel (if thou be
not now weary of listening), what has already been quoted, And the
Spirit fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the
Lord Ezek. xi. 5.. But the
words, fell upon me we must understand in a good sense, that is
“lovingly;” and as Jacob, when he had found Joseph, fell
upon his neck; as also in the Gospels, the loving father, on seeing his
son who had returned from his wandering, had compassion, and ran and
fell on his neck, and kissed him Gen. xlvi. 29; Luke xv. 20.. And
again in Ezekiel, And he brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God
into Chaldæa, to them of the captivity Ezek. xi. 24.. And other texts thou heardest before,
in what was said about Baptism; Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you Ib. xxxvi.
25; Cat. iii. 16., and the rest; a
new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
you Ib. v.
26.; and then
immediately, And I will put My Spirit within you Ib. v.
27.. And again, The hand of the Lord
was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord Ezek. xxxvii. 1..