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A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…
A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers, and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners containing the substance of near forty sermons upon several subjects / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by the author, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit, is to enable us to mortify Sin: Rom. 8. 13. If ye through the Spirit mortify the Deeds of the Body, ye shall live. And hence it is also that Sin shall not have Dominion over them; and therefore Believers cannot perish, they having such a Helper: He destroys all that Dominion Sin and Satan had in them, and Power over them: The Spirit utterly spoils Satan's Kingdom in them, Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the World, saith John, speaking to the Saints. This is 1such a Helper that can never be worsted.
6. It is hereby we perform all our Holy Duties: By the Spirit Ministers preach to profit, and Hearers hear to their profit; hereby we read to profit, and sing God's Praise to our profit and sweet comfort: for as we pray with the Spirit, so we sing with the Spirit; and the same Measure, the same Fillings of the Spirit that enable us to do the one, enable us to do the other. By the Spirit we are also helped to meditate on God, and on his Word; and hereby our Meditations of him are sweet to our Souls.
7. 'Tis by the Spirit we resist and repel Satan's Temptations: Or if he doth at any time worst us, the Spirit will help us up again.