“If the blood of bulls and goats ... ... sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God” (Hebrews 9: 13, 14).
Thus the Holy Ghost connects and identifies the work of the Son, as the anointed servant (Is. 42: 1; Acts 10: 38), with God, even the Father! And He is the proof also to those that have faith of their participation in the benefits of the Son’s work and of the Father’s pleasure in it.
The offering of Christ, the Son (though his own work), was through the- eternal Spirit. This proves how that which he did was both according to the will, and sure of the approbation of God (even the Father); for what he did, he did through his Spirit: and he offered himself that he might purge our consciences.
How blessedly also does this give us assurance, while musing upon the work of Christ; for we know it only by the Spirit: and so we get the blessing of knowing that that upon which we muse is our own; for it is he through whom it was done, who is our power of knowing and enjoying it. And this likewise enables its to enter somewhat into the joy which God (the Father) has in beholding us rejoicing in what Christ (the Son) did for us according his will.
Thus the same Holy Spirit which led Christ through the services (so proving the service was of God, and sure to be honored by him when finished), that game Spirit dwells in us, the witness of the work, the pledge of our participation in all its blessed results, and the opener to us of the Father’s thoughts in it and about us.