John Trapp on Joel 2:29
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Joel2:29
Verſe 29. And alſo upon the ſervants] they ſhall be the free-men and women of Jeſus Chriſt 1 Cor. 7.22. by as full a meaſure of Gods free and noble Spirit beſtowed upon them as upon their Maſters and Miſtreſſes. The Trent Tranſlation hath it, upon my ſervants and my handmaids. But there is no ſuch pronoun in the Original, though it is true, that all that have the ſpirit are his; and the contrary Rom. 8, 9. Eph, 1.13. The ſcope of the text is (as Mercer well noteth,) to ſhew that ut gratuitum & commune Chriſti beneficium, ſic & ſpiritus, as the benefits of Chriſt are free and common to all his people, ſo is the Spirit. And ſurely, next to the love of Chriſt in dwelling in our nature, we may well wonder at the love of the holy Ghoſt, that will dwell in our defiled ſoules, and act in them, as he doth. For there are diverſity of gifts, but the ſame Spirit 1 Cor. 11.4. as the divers ſmels of flowers come from the ſame influence: and the diverſe ſounds in the organ, froin the ſame breath.
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