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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.
"2. The Holy Ghost is mentioned before, as he hints, as the great Gift of the Gospel-Times, as coming down from Heaven; not absolutely, not as unto his Person, but with respect unto an especial Work, namely, the changing of the whole State of Religious Worship in the Church of God."
3. But here in these words when it is said, They were made Partakers of the Holy Ghost, it is spoken chiefly in respect unto external actual Operations.
1. They partake of the Holy Spirit in the common Operations of it themselves; they tasted the Heavenly Doctrine as it was administered by others, as it is hinted before: but here is a Reception, or a partaking of the Holy Spirit, whereby it had some great and visible Operations upon their Hearts and Lives, though not saving Operations, not such that changed them into a State of Grace.
1. They partake of the Holy Spirit in the common Operations of it themselves; they tasted the Heavenly Doctrine as it was administred by others, as it is hinted before: but here is a Reception, or a partaking of the Holy Spirit, whereby it had some great and visible Operations upon their Hearts and Lives, though not saving Operations, not such that changed them into a State of Grace.