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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.
8. 'Tis a comforting Voice. 'Tis by the Spirit God speaks Peace to the Soul: He will speak Peace unto his People, and unto his Saints. 1I will speak comfortably to her, I will speak to her Heart: None can speak to the Heart but God, by his Spirit; it is the Holy Ghost that is the Comforter: And after the Sinner hath been deeply wounded in the true sense of Sin, and is dejected, grieved, and sorely troubled, then the Spirit comes with its sweet, still, and comforting Voice, and revives the drooping Soul. To comfort the Conscience, Luther saith, is as great a Work as to make the World.
1. Now the Spirit speaks Comfort to the distressed Conscience through the Blood of Christ; that is, by showing the Soul that Christ died in its stead, and bore the Wrath that was due to us, having fully satisfied God's Justice, and answered all the Demands and Requirements of the Law, being made a Curse for us, that the Blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Christ ⟨p. 84⟩Jesus, that we might receive the Promise of the Spirit through Faith. 1The Blood of Christ speaks, it hath a Voice in it, it speaks good things, yea, better things than the Blood of Abel. But it never speaks Comfort to the Soul, till the Spirit applies it and sprinkleth it upon 2the Heart: O what Peace and Comfort then doth the Spirit speak to a wounded Spirit!