[ A] in us, as God is in the Church, from which Analogy our bodies
are called the Temples of the Holy Ghost which is in us, 1 Cor. vi.
19. God sends then his Spirit into our hearts; and this, I said, by a
peculiar manner, not by way of emission, as an arrow sent out of a
bow, which loses its union which it had with the bow, and is
now fastned in the But or white; nor properly by way of infusion,
as the soul is in the body, infus'd from God, yet so also, that it is
in a manner put into our hands, and is so in the man's possession
[ B] that hath it, that it is neither in any mans else, nor yet by any ex∣traordinary
tye annext to God from whom it came: but by way of
irradiation, as a beam sent from the Sun, that is in the air indeed,
and that substantially, yet so as it is not separated from the Sun,
nay, consists only in this, that it is united to the Sun; so that if
it were possible for it to be cut off from the Sun, it would desist
to be, it would illuminate no longer. So that you must conceive
these beams of Gods Spirit at the same time in the Christians heart
[ C] and in the spirit, and so uniting that Spirit to the heart, as you
may conceive by this proportion. I have a javelin or spear in my
hand, if I would mischief any thing, or drive it from me, I dart
it out of my hand at it, from which Gods judgments are compa∣red
to shooting and lightning, He hath bent his bow, he hath sent
forth his arrows, he cast forth lightnings, Psal. xviii. 14. But if I like
any thing that I meet with, if I would have it to me, I reach out
my spear and fasten in it, but still hold the spear in my hand, and
[ D] having pierct it draw it to me. Thus doth God reach forth his
graces to us, and as I may so say, by keeping one end in his hand,
and fastning the other in us, plucks and unites us to himself, from
which regeneration is ordinarily called an union with Christ, and
this union by a strong able band, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,
in Euseb. his phrase, which no man can cut asunder. 'Tis impos∣sible
to divide or cut a spirit, and this bond is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,
a spiritual one, and that made St. Paul so confident, That no crea∣ture
[ E] should ever separate him, Rom. viii. 39. And this God does by
way of emanation, as a loadstone sending out its effluvia or mag∣netick
atomes draws the iron to it self, which never stays till it be
united. Thus do you see from whence this principle comes to
me, and in what manner, from Gods Spirit by this means uniting
me to himself.
To the second question, where it lodges, my answer is, in the
heart of man, in the whole soul; not in the understanding, not in
[ F] the will, (a distinction of faculties invented by Philosophers, to puz∣zle
and perplex Divines, and put them to needless shifts) but, I say,
in the whole soul, ruling and guiding it in all its actions, enabling
it to understand and will spiritually; conceived, I say, and born
in the soul, but nursed, and fed, and encreased into a perfect sta∣ture
by the outward Organs and actions of the body, for by them