Thirdly, We feel by experience the breath of the Spirit to go along with the ministerial breath, whereupon the apostle knits these two together: “Quench not the Spirit;” “Despise not prophecies” (1 Thess. 5:19-20). Nathan by a few words blew up the decaying sparks in David. Rather than God will suffer his fire in us to die he will send some Nathan or other, and something always is left in us to join with the word as connatural to it; as a coal that hath fire in it will quickly catch more to it: smoking flax will easily take fire.
