Keach - Houston-Packer Collection BS537 .K4 1779

' I ~Metaphors, Allegories, Similes_, 1)pes, &c. .RES PE C T I N G ·THE HOLY SPIRIT-, 'The THIRD PERSON ~m THE :BLESSED TRINITY. T ·HE HOLY GH-OST A CO MFORTER., :t!nd I will pr~y the Father and hejha/1 give you mzother Gomforter, that .h e maj abide with you for e-ver, John xiv. 16. 'And the Comforter which is the Holy Ghoft, whom the Father •will fend in my N.ame, he •'jhallteach you all 'l'hings, &c. Verft 26. THE Comforter, IIapa"""'''• o' the Advocate: He foal/ give you another Comforter. The vVord [Paradet I .in the. Greek comes from a Word of large Signification, and confequently may be rendered. Advocate, Exhorter, or Comforter. . M E T A P·H 0 R. I. A Comforter implies one or more to be in Trouble and Diil:refs, or attended·.with Sorrow a nd AffiiEtion : A Man that is not in any Trouble, ll:ands not in need pf a.Comforter. PAR A .L LE L. I. THE Saints and l'egple of God are in this World attended with manifold Troubles, AffiiCtions, and Sormws : Many are •tbe //jfliflions of the Righteous ; for all the Day long have I been plagued, and chajfened every Morning, Pfal. xxxvii. '4· Verily, verily, I fay unto you, that ye ,foal/ weep and lament, but the World foal! rejoice; andye foal! be forrowful, but your Sorrow foal! be turned into Joy, John xvi. 20. IL lt implies or holds forth, I!. The Difciples of Chriil: though they mourn that thofe who are troubled, and in . here or are in a forrowful State, upon many Con– .,a forrowful Conditioq,.are capable liderations, yet they arc capable of Comfort, and of Relief and Succor. fit SubjeCts of it: They are not fuch as utterly refufe, or are unable to receive Relief and Com– fort. Such as have committed the unpardonable Sin, or are already in Hell, are in– capable ot receiving true Peace .and Comfort; but fo it is not with God's People. vVhatever their State and Condition be, it admits of 'Relief, though through Sat<n's Temptations they are fometimes backward to take hold of it.. . . Ill. Comforter is • Nameor Ap- ·IIL The Holy Spmt IS a DIVIne Perfon; he pellation belonging to a Perfon, is placed in the fame Rank and Order, without {)t a perfonal Appellation. any Note of Difference or Dtlhncbon, as to a diil:inEt lntereil:, in the Divine Nature, with the ·o<her Divi~e Perfons: Baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. ·'!'here are three that bear recor.d in H~avsn, the Father, the Son,. and the Spirit; and thefe three are one, Matt. XXYl!L ' 9· Jo,hn xv.). 2. He hath alfo the Names proper to a Divine Perfon only, for he IS calleel God: f/Vlry hajl thou lted unto ,.the Holy Ghoft? 'Jhou haft uot lied unto J'vfan, but unto God, Afls v. 3, 4· 3· He bath ,perfonal Properties affigned him, viz. a .Will, He dtvtdeth to every j'vfan ftverally as be ·.will; and 01 an U nderftanding: '!be Spmt fearcheth all 'fhzngs, )'M, the deep 'l'hm~f

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