Edwards thoughts on the gift of the Holy Spirit

Listening to Jonathan Edward's Religious Affections last night, I found these words on the Holy Spirit a beautiful consideration, since I'd never before thought in this way about God's gift of the Spirit to believers:

For so are things constituted in the affair of our redemption that the Father provides the Saviour, or purchaser, and the purchase is made of him; and the Son is the purchaser and the price; and the Holy Spirit is the great blessing or inheritance purchased as is intimated, Gal. 3:13-14, and hence the Spirit often is spoken of as the sum of the blessings promised in the gospel, Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4 and ch. 2:38, 39, Gal. 3:14, Eph. 1:13. This inheritance was the grand legacy that Christ left his disciples and his church, in his last will and testament, John, ch. 14, 15, 16. This is the sum of the blessings of eternal life, which shall be given in heaven. (Compare John 7: 37, 38, 39 and 4:14 with Rev. 21: 6 and 22:1, 17) It is through the vital communications and indwelling of the Spirit that the saints have all their light, life, holiness, beauty and joy in heaven; and it is through the vital communications and indwelling of the same Spirit that the saints have all light, life, holiness, beauty and comfort on earth; but only communicated in less measure. And this vital indwelling of the Spirit in the saints, in this less measure and small beginning is "the earnest of the Spirit, the earnest of the future inheritance, and the first fruits of the Spirit...