Anglo-catholic teachers affirm,) “to say the least, Scripture has never much recommended;” an assertion very much to be blamed, as very untrue. {39b} Now they who are not sensible of the inconceivable importance of preaching, will not _seek_ the SPIRIT of preaching, neither will they _have_ Him, if they do not ask for Him to be given them. The word, to be “the power of GOD unto salvation,” must be “preached _with the HOLY GHOST_ sent down from heaven,” {39c} “not in the words of man’s wisdom, but in the demonstration of the SPIRIT and of power.” {39d} I feel convinced, that after all this, my main position will be generally admitted to be extremely probable, if not certainly proved; that we cannot on both sides, have the HOLY GHOST in the ministrations I have described, though both lay claim to His presence and power in them. {39e} * * * * * III. I now, therefore, intreat your permission briefly to press a third position on your serious consideration, namely, _that whoever of us have Him NOT_, _they are under most FEARFUL GUILT in PRETENDING to His presence_. We all make the pretension. We are guilty therefore, it is to be feared, on one side or the other: deeply guilty! _a_. The guilt is that of _being false_; of lying in some things _concerning_ the HOLY GHOST, and in some things _unto_ Him, when false before His saints in whom He dwells. Are we incurring then the very guilt of Ananias and Sapphira? Let us fear their condemnation. _b_. Our guilt is also that of _resisting_ the HOLY GHOST, in His _truth_, in His _work_, in His _people_. If we have not known the ways of GOD aright, we have erred in our hearts and hardened them,—against what the HOLY GHOST saith, “Harden not your hearts;” and hereby He is grieved: and the result is that GOD swears in His wrath, that we shall not enter into His rest. {40}