Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

2dly, The nature, workings and fruits of the spirit.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, Gen. 6. 3.

Balaam, who came with a purpose to curse Israel, when the spirit of God came upon him, he blessed them, Numb. 24. 1, 2, to the 14.

Is the spirit of the Lord straitned (or, shortned)? are these his doings? Micah 2. 7.

Handle me, and see me, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me to have, Luk. 24. 39.

I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him, Joh. 1. 32.

He would have given thee living water, &c. water springing up into eter∣nal life, Joh. 4. 10, 14.

He who believeth, &c. out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters, &c. This spake he of the spirit, &c. Joh. 7. 38, 39.

They were not able to resist, &c. and the spirit by which he spake, Act. 6. 10.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost, Rom. 5. 5.

The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits, that we are the children of God, Rom. 8. 16.

Fervent in the spirit, serving the Lord, Rom. 12. 11.

No man speaking by the spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed, &c. that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost, &c. There are diversity of gifts, but the same spirit, &c. to one is given, &c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit, dividing, &c. 1 Cor. 12. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, &c.

Who hath also sealed us, and given us the earnest of his spirit, 2 Cor. 1. 22. chap. 5. 5.

Ye are our Epistle, &c. ye are manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ, &c. written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshie tables of the heart, &c. The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life, &c. If the ministration of death, &c. were glorious, &c. How shall not the ministrati∣on of the spirit be rather glorious, &c? Now the Lord is that spirit: and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, 2 Cor. 3. 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 17.

God haeh sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba father, Gal. 4. 6.

For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other, &c. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, Gal. 5. 17, 22, 23.

Ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the purchased possession, Eph. 1. 13, 14.

The holy spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption, Eph. 4. 30.

For the fruit of the spirit is in all, goodness, and righteousness, and truth, Eph. 5. 9.

God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind, 2 Tim. 1. 7.

Having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy Ghost, 1 Thess. 1. 6.

Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself, &c. Heb. 9. 14.

Try the spirits, whether they are of God, &c. Hereby know ye the spirit of God: evey spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ to have been come in the flesh, is of God. And every spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God, &c. Greater is he that is in you, than he

who is in the world, 1 Joh. 4. 1, 2, 3, 4.

It is the spirit who beareth witness, because the spirit is truth, &c. The father, the word, and the holy Ghost, and these three are one, 1 John 5. 6, 7, 8.

The Spirit and the Bride say, Come, Revel. 22. 17.