* If therefore we have any true sense of the nature and weight of our ecclesiastical calling, any desire to do the _full work_ of the ministry, to satisfy the necessities of our flocks; if we have any fear of being condemned as _useless_ labourers in Christ’s vineyard, it is high time to awake from this dream of an ordinary and extraordinary sanctification of the Holy Spirit. It serves only to keep us _unsanctified_, shut up in death, in our own corrupted nature, to keep us _learnedly_ content with our state, as if we were _rich_ and _increased_ in _goods_, and _had need_ of _nothing_: and hinders us from knowing that we are _wretched_ and _miserable, and poor, and blind and naked_. 46. * Several of the clergy, whose lot is fallen in this corrupt age, may be supposed to have taken upon them the sacred office, and to have lived in it, not enough according to the nature and spirit of it, merely through the _degeneracy_ of the times, and from a consideration that they are well enough, according to the religion that now passes in the world. And perhaps there are few, if any of the order, however eminent for good works, whose virtues have not receiv’d _some abatement_ from the same cause――This therefore may be added as another reason why all the clergy of this land must in the spirit of martyrdom awaken the world into a faith and love of the gospel. Now is the time that we must _give up_ all our worldly regards, _forsake all that we have, that we must hate father and mother, wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yea and our own lives also_, or we cannot be faithful ministers of Jesus Christ. The same spirit which first planted the gospel, is now required to _recover_ and _restore_ it amongst us. We must break off our chains of worldly prudence, and come forth in the spirit and power of the gospel: so live, and speak, and act, whether in the pulpit or out of it, that all who see and hear us may be forced to confess that God is in us of a truth. A _ministry_ that have not this power, that have not _full proof_, both to themselves and others, that the Holy Spirit is thus _with them_, opening the kingdom of God in their own souls, and enabling them to preach it to others with spirit and power, are to answer to God for their want of it. 47. To ask whether the assistance of the holy Spirit is to be _ordinary_ or _extraordinary_, is as needless a distinction, as to ask whether a _minister_ of the gospel ought to be an ordinary or extraordinary man. The operation of the holy Spirit in us since the fall, is a supernatural power, and therefore in a just sense always extraordinary; because enabling us to be and do that, which the ordinary power of fallen nature is insufficient for. But it is more or less restored to us, as we are more or less fitted to receive it. * The Christian religion has not had its proper effect, till it has so set up the kingdom of God among us, that _his will is done on earth, as it is done in heaven_.