them and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. 1 Pet. 4. 1-3 He partook with us of flesh and blood that he might through death destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. God had threatned that in the day man did eat of the forbidden fruit in dying he should dye And by our first Fathers disobedience we fell under the sentence of death And though we might have had a sensible being yet it had heen a miserable one we could have had no comfortable being in this world But now when Christ was interposed and God promised this Seed of the Woman Adam in belief of God's promise of his purpose and grace gives his Wife a new name and called her Eve or Chavah because she was the mother of all living who otherwise had been the mother of all dead Gen. 2. 17 with chap. 3. 15-20 In this was manifested the love of God towards us because God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 Joh. 4. 9. Joh. 6. 51. Rom. 5. 12-18 And through his precious Blood and powerful Sacrifice God doth us good and fills our hearts with food and gladness We must otherwise have been alwayes and altogether accursed Cursed in basket and cursed in store cursed in our meat and drink cursed in all we had injoyed or partaken of But Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Gal. 3. 13. And now because he descended into the lower parts of the earth and is ascended up on high and hath led captivity captive and received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also As the consequent and fruit hereof God daily loadeth us with his benefits and is a God of salvation to us And to God the Lord belong the issues from death Psal 68. 18-20 and 85. 10-12 Every creature of God is good for it is sanctified and made clean by the word of God and prayer or intercession as the word signifies that is by the word of God even by Jesus Christ his being made flesh and in that body of his flesh bearing our sins and dying our death in the virtue whereof he is raised again His name is the word of God Heb. 4. 12. Rev. 19. 13. and by his intercession for us 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. And hence we are instructed to give thanks alwayes for all things unto God and the Father in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord Eph. 5. 20. To signify to us that all the mercies we are made partakers of we partake of them upon the account of the Sufferings Sacrifice and Mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ and all mixtures of mercy and compassion in afflictions and deliverance therefrom is because God hath found out a ransom Psal 75. 3-8 Job 33. 19-24 And the end of all his goodness extended and continued to us through our blessed Mediator is to lead us to repentance Rom. 2. 4. 2 Cor. 5. 15. And surely were this heartily minded and considered that our lives and our comfortable enjoyment of Gods mercies are the price of his Blood and Sacrifice and vouchsased to us that we might live not to the lusts of men but to the will of God it would be powerful to preserve us from consuming upon our lusts the good things we receive at so dear a rate Hence the Apostle when he exhorts the Believers to walk honestly not in rioting and drunkenness he to this end instructs them to put on the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 13. 13 14 and counsels them to walk in the Spirit whose work it is to glorify Christ and receive of his things and shew unto us and saith he Ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh Amongst which are revellings and drunkenness Gal. 5. 16-18-21 And from the consideration hereof that the earth is the Lords even the Lord Jesus Christs and the fulness thereof and that by grace we are made partakers of a comfortable enjoyment of Gods mercies even by the grace of our Lord Jesus who so greatly humbled himself for our sakes And by the grace of God whereby Jesus Christ tasted death for every man The Apostle exhorteth the Believers that whether they eat or drink or whatsoever they did they should do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 21 26-28-31 And the not considering or taking notice of this is the reason and cause of mens abuse of the good creatures of God and of their consuming them upon their lusts or in the service of their Idols Hence the Lord saith the did not know or take notice that I gave her Corn and Wine and Oyl which they prepared for Baal Hos 2. 6-8 Did we indeed consider at what a dear rate we have all the mercies vouchsafed to us it would powerfully help us thus to say Seeing these are the price of the Blood of my blessed Redeemer shall I abuse and waste that which cost so dear Shall I tread under my feet the precious Blood of Christ God forbid How shall I do such wickedness and sin against the precious Blood and powerful mediation of my Lord who loved me and gave himself for me and affords me these conforts and refreshings that I might live to him that died for me and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. Rom. 12. 1. 1 Pet. 4. 1-3 Yea indeed now the greatness and preciousness of the sufferings of Christ and the wonderfulness of the grace of God are more brightly manifested and clearly discovered to us than they were in former times and thereby greater obligation is laid upon us now than upon others under the more dark ministration of the Law to flee from the service of our Lusts and Idols Through the tender mercy of our God the day-spring from on high hath visited us To give light to them that sate in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Luk. 1. 78 79. Jesus Christ is now evidently set forth before our eyes as one who hath been Crucified for us in which the vileness and odiousness of our sins and vanities is clearly discovered to us Gal. 3. 1 with Rom. 3. 8. The Gospel is preached according to the Revelation of the mystery and the grace of God hath been more clearly revealed than before Christs coming in the flesh yea than before he had poured down and shed forth the Holy Spirit upon his Apostles from Heaven after he ascended on high Therefore now especially it behoves us and we are more powerfully enabled and moved to flee from all Intemperance and the evil fruits thereof The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light let us walk honestly as in the day-time not in rioting and drunkenness c. Now it is high time for us to
awake out of Sleep for now all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light Rom. 13. 11-14 with Eph. 5. 13-18 They that sleep sleep in the night and they that are drunken are drunken in the night But let us who are of the day be sober For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thes 5. 4-8-10 The grace of God which bringeth Salvation to all men hath appeared Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly c. Tit. 2. 10-12 The true light now shineth love not the world neither the things that are in the world not the lust of the flesh c. 1 Joh. 2. 8 15 16. At the times of mens ignorance God winketh at them Act. 17. 30. But now mens sins will be greatly aggravated if they count it a pleasure to riot in the day time 2 Pet. 2. 13. Surely it will be more tolerable in the day of judgment for Sodom and Gomorrha than for such as now walk on in preferring darkness before light 2. In the Gospel of Christ the holy Spirit is discovering to us infinitely better things prepared for us in Christ than any of those things in the abuse whereof we are vainly seeking comfort and contentment to our Souls Therein is discovered to us that by means of the precious blood of Christ all things are now actually prepared and made ready for us The holy Spirit is lifting up Christ as an object in whom there are all spiritual blessings in heavenly things provided for mankind A feast of fat things for all people of Wines on the Lees c. That we might look unto him and be saved from our sins and from the vanity of our conversations Luk. 14. 17. Gen. 22. 18. Eph. 1. 3. Isa 25. 6. and 45. 22. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. And that we might labour for and seek after not that meat which perisheth but this which indureth unto everlasting life which the son of man will give unto us Joh. 6. 27-35 And in hearkening diligently unto and coming to him we may eat that which is good and our souls may delight themselves in fatness Isa 55 1-3 we may rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory in the worst of days and times 1 Pet. 1. 6-8 Alas men do propose a great deal of satisfaction and contentment to themselves in the abuse of God's mercies they think that is the way for them to lead merry and comfortable lives and to spend their days in gladness and jollity that this is the way to be delivered from all melancholly and evil and afflictive sadness And especially in evil times in days of affliction and mourning they suppose the only way then to drive away sorrow from their hearts is to pour in Wine and strong Drink till Wine inflame them when as in such a time the Lord is then calling to weeping and to mourning And therefore sorrow is better then laughter for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth Eccles 7. 1-5-14 And besides men do but deceive themselves in promising to themselves any solid or durable joy and comfort from their excessive partaking of Wine and strong Drink or eating any dainty and delicious food to excess for this is but deceitful meat Prov. 23. 1-3 Many times hereby men make themselves sick and so increase and heap up sadness to themselves and add grief to their former sorrow Hos 7. 5 they distemper and bring diseases upon their bodies waste their substance lose their good names amongst sober people wound their consciences such shall not find quietness in their belly or spirit for there is no peace to the wicked saith my God Job 20. 20. Isa 57. 21. And therefore such persons do but deceive themselves and are deceived by Wine for Wine is a mocker strong Drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise Prov. 20. 1. The holy Ghost saith not who hath a merry heart and cheerful spirit who hath solid and substantial joy and gladness But who hath wo who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath wounds without a cause c They that tarry long at the Wine they that go to seek mixt Wine And though while they are drinking and in their Cups they may outwardly laugh and be merry yet such laughter is but the laughter of fools which is like the crackling of thorns under a Pot which though they make a great blaze and noise for the present yet they are out in a moment And the end of such mirth is sorrow yea an heap of grief For at last this Wine wherewith they so abuse and distemper themselves will bite like a Serpent and sting like an Adder this they shall receive from God's hand they shall lye down in sorrow Prov. 23. 29-32 Isa 50. 10 11. For God giveth to the Sinner to him that wanders out of the way of understanding travel and grief Eccles 2. 26. But now in Jesus Christ God hath prepared for us and in the Gospel the holy Spirit is discovering to us that which is proper to comfort and rejoyce the hearts of all that mourn here is a Cup of consolation which being Drunk in by us will comfort us in all our tribulations and sadnesses and make the heart truly and lastingly yea everlastingly merry And though all the days of the afflicted are evil yet he that hath a merry heart hath a continual feast Prov. 15. 14 15 such an one is filled with joy and peace in believing and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy Rom. 15. 13. Prov. 14. 10. And though in evil days outward occasions of sorrow are presented and administred to him and his belly trembles his lips quiver and rottenness enters into his bones And all seen comforts and delight are removed and taken away Although the figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines and so the Drunkards weep and Drinkers of Wine and strong Drink howl Joel 1. 5. yet they may and shall rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of their salvation Habbak 3. 16-18 Cant. 1. 2-4 When God's judgments are so in the earth as that the new Wine mourneth the vine languisheth all the merry-hearted do sigh the mirth of tabrets ceaseth the noise of them that rejoyce endeth the joy of the harp ceaseth they shall not drink Wine with a song strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people even then the righteous who are seeking the Lord and seeking his face and his strength such as have their dwelling in Heaven they shall lift up their voice they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord c.
Isa 24. 7-16 Oh blessed are the poople that know the joyful sound come what times will come they shall walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance In thy name shall they rejoyce all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted to honour and safety For thou art the glory of their strength Psal 89. 15-17 In Christ to whom the holy Spirit is directing us we may rejoyce always even in the time of greatest affliction and sadness also Phil. 3. 1. and 4. 4. His blood is drink indeed this will cheer revive and refresh the very heart and spirit of the drinker And his love therein commended is better infinitely better than Wine and more to be desired and rather to be chosen than strong Drink And who so eateth his flesh and drinketh his blood hath everlasting life and he will raise him up at the last day Joh. 6. 54-57 Cant. 1. 2-4 and 2. 3-5 Oh therefore in evil dayes and times when sorrow and sadness is administred to you and how many Temptations and Provocations from others soever you meet withal yet be not drunk with Wine But be ye filled with the spirit c. Eph. 5. 16-18 19 Forsake not the Lord the fountain of living waters to hew to your selves cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no water But if any man thirst let him come unto Christ and drink And whosoever drinketh of this water of life that he will give him that cometh unto him shall never thirst but the water that he will give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life Jer. 2. 13. Joh. 7. 37 38. and 4. 10-14 And when shame shall be the promotion of fools when the crown of pride the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a Diadem of beauty to the residue of his people who in the light and strength of his grace denying ungodliness and worldly lusts have lived soberly c. And come unto Christ as the rest for their weary Spirits and unto him as the refreshing Isa 28. 1-3-5-12 Oh then that we may not spend our money and time for that which is not bread nor labour for that which satisfieth not let us hearken diligently unto Christ in his Gospel and eat that which is good and let our Souls delight themselves in fatness Let us go into the house of the Lord and eat of Wisdom's bread and drink of the Wine which she hath mingled let us forsake the foolish the drunken Drunkards and live and go in the way of understanding Instead of lavishing our money out of the bag for strong Drink let us buy the truth and not sell it Isa 55. 1-3 Prov. 9. 1-6 and 23. 20-23 Is it because there is no comfort peace satsfaction joy and contentment in Christ that we walk in rioting and drunkenness What iniquity is there or have we found in him that we should turn our backs upon and forsake him and make our bellies our God Hath he been or is he a barren Wilderness or a dry Tree that we scatter our ways unto strangers and prefer the Service of our vile and brutish affections before him in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the God-head bodily and in whom is all compleatness prepared for us surely no Oh then Return from all your wandrings unto him who is the rest in whom God hath dealt bountifully and plentifully prepared for us And from the admirable excellency of his loving-kindness to the children of men Let us put our trust under the shadow of his wings that we may be abundantly satisfied with the fatnefs of his house and drink and drink abundantly of the river of his pleasures Psal 36. 7 8 9. 3. In the Gospel is shewed unto us the great meanness of our Lord Jesus in the dayes of his personal Ministration and how contented he was with and how he condescended to mean things such was the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who being rich for our sakes became poor He did not fare deliciously every day he sought not after the best and costliest meat and drink But when he was thirsty he desired a little cold Water to quench his thirst Joh. 4. 6 7. And had for himself and his disciples and the multitude barly-loaves and fishes Joh. 6. 9-13 His knees were weak through fasting and his flesh failed of fatness Psal 109. 24. And though the men of that generation did falsely accuse him and laid to his charge that he was a gluttonous person and a Wine-bibber a friend of Publicans and Sinners yet Wisdom this heavenly wisdom was justified of all her children they knew that the Scribes and Pharisees laid to his charge things which he knew not nor was guilty of Luk. 7. 30-35 But on the contrary he wept and afflicted his Soul with fasting and that was to his reproach He made sack-cloath also his garment and he became a Proverb unto them And he was the song of the drinkers of strong drink Psal 69. 10-12 much hardness he indured and did not please himself but was content in every condition and with all Provision And therefore did the World hate him because he testifieth of them both in word and works that their deeds were evil Joh. 7. 7. And he instructed his Disciples to eat and drink such things as they gave them into whose houses they came and admonishing them of intemperance and insobriety at all times Luk. 10. 7. and 21. 34-36 surely then it also behoves his followers to indure hardness as good Soldiers of Jesus Christ and to flee from all intemperance whatsoever And not to delight in and be Companions of them who made Songs of the Captain of our Salvation Psal 69. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 3. Oh! shall we who profess our selves to be his Disciples and Servants seek after and surfeit in the abuse of the best and most excellent meat and drink that we can come by will this be by him accounted an imitating him and following his steps and that example which he hath left us or shall we not rather provoke him if we walk on in surfeiting and drunkenness severely to testifie displeasure against us even to cut Us in sunder and appoint us our portion with the unbelievers even with such as never professed themselves to be his Disciples Luk. 21. 34 36. Oh then set the Lord before you and be imitaters of him as dear children for he that saith He knoweth and abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 Joh. 2. 4-6 If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness in rioting and drunkenness we lye and do not the truth 1 Joh. 1. 6. with Rom. 13. 11-13 Do ye then especially who profess your selves to be Christ's disciples Abstain from these fleshly lusts that war against the soul that ye may not make others believe or give them occasion to think
have boldness in every day of judgment and both be delivered from the fear of our enemies and be made courageous against them and wax valiant in fight Hence the Apostle faith concerning himself and such as in whom this Spirit dwelleth and abideth Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or Sword Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us 1 Joh. 4. 14-17 18 19. Rom. 8. 1-37 Herethrough they were strengthned with strength in their Souls strengthned with might by his Spirit in the inner man and the word of God abiding in them they were strong and helped to do valiantly even to overcome the wicked one and not to fear what Men or Devils could do unto them Eph. 3. 16. 1 Joh. 2. 14. and 5. 4 5. Those that drink in of this good Spirit are of God and shall overcome all their opposers because greater is he that is in them than he that is in the world And they shall be valiant and victorious Not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts Zech. 4. 6. And as in former times it was said The Spirit of the Lord came upon such and such a man And he went out and prevailed against his enemies Judg. 3. 10. and 6. 34. and II. 29-33 and 14 19 Even so still by this Spirit of the Lord we may be delivered from all our fears of amazement and be made bold and courageous like Lions to resist and put to slight all our Spiritual enemies Hence when the Apostle tells the believers That they wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places or things he directs them to take unto themselves the whole armour of God and particularly the sword of the spirit which is the word of God whereby we may overcome the wicked one and all his instruments and temptations Eph. 6. 10-12-17 Rev. 12. 11. And so this spiritual wine is proper and powerful to deliver us from the fear of man which brings a snare and causes men to comply and have fellowship with them in their Drunkenness and intemperance and in other unfruitful works of darkness lest they should incur their displeasure or lose their favour and friendship And to strengthen us to resist unto blood striving against sin And in walking in this Spirit we shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh either for fear of the loss of mens favour or for fear of their evil will or punishment but shall be strengthened to resist and overcome the world there-through 6. Wine is good to be used for those who are infirm and for their stomack sake to strengthen them and help them to digest And it begets and preserves in them an appetite to their food that they may thereby be fitted for any work or business As the Apostle signifies when he saith to Timothy Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomacks sake and thine oft infirmities 1 Tim. 5. 23. So it is as with respect to this heavenly and spiritual Wine in drinking in thereof and being filled therewith this will still beget in us an earnest desire and appetite unto wisdom's provision It will indeed as before we have said take off our hearts and desires from thristing after the Devils cup For we cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of Devils 1 Cor. 10. 21. But yet if we have tasted the graciousness of the Lord by this Spirit it will cause us still to come unto him and drink And to desire as new-born babes the sincere milk of the word that we may grow thereby that we may grow in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 2-4 And 2 Pet. 3. 18 And even as the hart pants after the water brooks so with our Souls to pant after and thirst for God the living God even Jesus Christ and God in him which is the true God and eternal life Psal 42. 1-3 and 63. 1-8 To hunger and thirst after righteousness after Jesus Christ who is Jehovah our Righteousness that we may win him and be found in him not having our own righteousness which is of the law but the righteousness which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousness which is of God by faith And that we might be changed into his Image and be framed to a likeness of mind and demeanour after the example of our Lord Jesus Matth. 5. 6. Phil. 3. 7 8-10 Thus it was with Christs Spouse while she sate down under the shadow of that blessed Apple-tree and his fruit was sweet to her taste and he brought her into the banquetting-house into the house of Wine caused her to drink in of his Spirit or ever she was aware she was so filled with spiritual desire after and earnest appetite unto this heavenly food that she cryes out Stay me with flaggons vessels of small quantity or small draughts would not now suffice or content her But in drinking in of this Spirit before she had such a good stomach that she now cries out and calls for flaggons for a more abundant participation of this Spirit And comfort me with apples for saith she I am sick of love She was even restless and unsatisfied in her desires that she might more eat of this living bread even the flesh of Christ that was given for the life of the World and drink in of his blood as knowlng this was most sweet and desirable and would nourish her Soul and preserve it in life even to the enjoyment of everlasting life Cant. 2. 3-5 and 5. 8-16 and 6. 1. They that know and have tasted of this gift of God will still and more abundantiy ask and desire after it that their Souls may delight themselves in that excellent feast which is prepared for men in Christ and be satisfied therewith as with marrow and fatness Joh. 4. 10. Psal 63. 1-5-8 And this Spirit being drunk in by them will cause their Souls to digest the food the Spiritual food which they eat so as their Souls may prosper and be like unto watered Gardens and like Springs of water whose waters fail not that they may flourish in the Courts of our God and bring forth fruit in old age and be fat and green To shew that the Lord is upright And there is no unrighteousness in him Psal 92. 12-14 That they may spring up as among the grass as willows by the water courses And may be trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord Filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God that he in all things may be glorified by them through Jesus Christ our Lord Isa 44. 3 4. and chap 61. 1-3 Phil. I. II. 7. Wine being drunk in
especially in any large measure will enflame the natural heart with love and lustings towards the proper object thereof And therefore David that he might cover his great evil and iniquity made Uriah to eat and drink yea he made him drunk As knowing this was the way to cause him to go down to his Wife and lye with her and though David's policy herein failed him yet therein is signified that this was a proper means to bring to pass his evil and naughty intendment 2 Sam. 11. 11-13 So we may say this Spirit is by way of eminency Wine that wherewith being filled we shall be enflamed with heavenly and Divine Love Hence this Spirit is called the Spirit of Love 2 Tim. 1. 7 and the Love effected in the Believers is called their love in the Spirit Colos 1. 8 and to move the Believers to walk in the Spirit the Apostle tells them The fruit of the Spirit is love This is that which the Holy Spirit doth produce in them in whom it is and abides Gal. 5. 16-22 And so this Spirit doth enflame the heart with love to Jesus Christ and God in him It doth discover make known and shed abroad the love of God in the heart of the Believer even that love that while we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly the Spirit causes to appear the kindness and love of God to man ward in sending his Son the Saviour of the world and of Christ in laying down his life for us and tasting death by the grace of God for every man That this love being seen known and believed by us we might love him who hath so testified love to us with all our hearts and hereby is their love made perfect who know and believe it and that God is love so as they love him because he first loved them Rom. 5. 5-8 Tit. 3. 4 5. 1 Joh. 4. 13-16 17-19 Hereby he makes them sick of love and helps them to cleave to him in love with full purpose of heart Cant. 2. 3 4 5. And in discovering of the excellency and comeliness of Christ of the plenteousness of Redemption in him by his blood even the forgiveness of our sins of the everlasting righteousness brought in by and treasured up in him of the treasures of wisdom and knowledg hid in him of that eternal life given us in him and all things pertaining to life and godliness of the favour of his good ointments wherewith he is anointed as the great Apostle and High-Priest yea of his compleat perfect and universal loveliness hereby the Spirit renders him as an object worthy to be delighted in by the Soul And therefore do the virgins love him He is the He whom their Souls love Cant. 1. 3 4. and 5. 8-16 And this Love is such as is clean and leads to the abhorring all that is evil even whatsoever is forbidden by the Lord and discovered by the light the Spirit in the Testimony to be displeasing and offensive to the beloved Hence whereas God in giving forth his Law at first saith Thou shalt have no other gods before me Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image c. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy c. all is summed up in this short saying elsewhere Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and soul and mind and strength Exod. 20. 3-11 with Deut. 6. 4 5. Matth. 22. 36 37. To signify that the love of the Spirit is such as is exercised in abstaining from and denying all ungodliness and in cleaving unto and following whatsoever is well-pleasing in the sight of the Lord and this Spirit is also purifying the heart from all unclean and filthy love in obeying the truth unto the unfeigned love of the Brethren that they might love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. 1 Joh. 3. 16-18 And this Love thus begotten even by the Spirit in commending Gods love in Christ worketh no ill to ones neighbour and so preserves from Murder Uncleanness Thest bearing False-witness Covetousness Rioting and Drunkenness or any other thing that is contrary to sound Doctrine Rom. 13. 8-13 And also this Spirit in discovering the greatness and extensiveness of the Love of Christ to wit that this One died for all constrains the Believers thereof to love all men even their enemies also Mat. 5. 44 45. 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. 8. Wine is proper to make men free to speak it causes them to be talkative to open their mouths freely in discoursing or speaking about any matter or business So Elihu saith Behold my belly is as Wine which hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles I will speak that I may be refreshed I will open my lips and answer And that which made him so free to speak was this Spiritual Wine we are speaking of He was full of matter and the Spirit within him did constrain him Job 32. 17-20 And thus it was with the Apostles and the residue of the Believers when the Holy Spirit was poured down from on high upon them They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak c. They did freely declare the wonderful works of God And though some foolish ones mocking said These men are full of new wine because they were so free in speaking yet as Peter saith These were not drunken with Wine as they supposed But this was that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel It shall come to pass in the last dayes saith God I will pour out of my Spirit c. Act. 2. 1-4-11-13-17 18. This Spirit will apt and enable us to speak not as men filled with Wine do to wit vain and unprofitable things But it will help us to speak unto God and to pray unto him in Christs name for what we want And to give thanks unto him alwayes for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 5. 18-20 The Spirit in opening the things of Christ unto us helpeth our Infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought But the Spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession according to God Rom. 8. 26 27. And this Spirit will apt and incline us to be speaking unto our selves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual songs Eph. 5. 18 19. To be teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. And to speak unto others even all men or any man we have opportunity to converse with that will hear To speak unto them and make mention of the sufferings of Christ and what he hath thereby done and obtained into himself for every poor sinful creature of mankind And the love of God manifested in Christ to man-ward And in all to make mention of Gods righteousness even of his