Excerpt from The Scripture Doctrine of the Proper Divinity, Real Personality, and the External and Extraordinary Works of the Holy Spirit, Stated and Defended: In Sixteen Sermons, Preach'd at the Merchants Lecture at Pinners-Hall, in the Years 1729, 1730, 1731 Decay of practical religion ln this naa tion, and, at the fame time, calls to mind the contempt which has been, for many years, caf't on the Holy Spi. Rit and his operations, he mul't readily conclude that this 13 the grand caufe of the corruptions and abominations which abound among us. The Spi rit has been grieved and offended, and he, in a great meafure, is withdrawn and gone it is therefore no wonder that the religion of the clofet, and the family, 1s (0 much neglee'ted, and that public ordinances are of fo little be nefit, to fuch as in a formal Way eu gage in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.