Holy Spirit

We preach and pray, and you hear-, but there is no motion Christ-ward until the Spirit of God blows upon them.

— John Flavel

The natural man may have excellent notions in divinity, but God must teach us to know the mysteries of the Gospel after a spiritual manner. A man may see the figures upon a dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun shines-, so we may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by His Spirit shines upon our soul…. He not only informs our mind, but inclines our will.

—Thomas Watson

Christ is the door that opens into God’s presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door-, but the Spirit is He that makes this key fit.

—William Gurnall

It is not the work of the Spirit to tell you the meaning of Scripture, and give you the knowledge of divinity, without your own study and labor, but to bless that study, and give you knowledge, thereby…. To reject study on pretence of the sufficiency of the Spirit, is to reject the Scripture itself.

— Richard Baxter

To plead Christ’s merits in prayer, and not by the Spirit, is to bring right incense but strange fire, and so our prayers are but smoke, offensive to His pure eyes, not incense, a sweet savor to His nostrils.

—William Gurnall

What a sad difference is there in the same person, as to what he is when the Spirit leads him, and as to what he is when the Spirit leaves him!

—Thomas lacombe

Fire is quenched by pouring on water or by withdrawing fuel, so the Spirit is quenched by living in sin, which is like pouring water on a fire-, or by not improving our gifts and graces, which is like withdrawing fuel from the hearth.

—Thomas Manton

O such a one doth great things, he prays, and hears, and reads, and disputes much. But hath he the Spirit, or no? The greatest difference in all the Book of God, between saints and sinners is, that the one hath the Spirit, and the other hath not.

—Walter Craddock

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