Holy Spirit
The Greatest Promise Christ Made To Us
Take a view, then, of the state and condition of them who, professing to believe the gospel of Jesus Christ, do yet contemn and despise his Spirit, as to all its operations, gifts, graces, and dispensations to his churches and saints. Whilst Christ was in the world with his disciples, he made them no greater promise, neither in respect […]
We Have An Everlasting Comfort
There may be some perishing comfort given for a little season by perishing things; but abiding consolation, which we have by the Holy Ghost, is from things everlasting:—everlasting love, eternal redemption, an everlasting inheritance. ~John Owen from Of Communion With God, volume 2 of Works, page 251
Comfort and Consolation
Whenever there is mention made of comfort and consolation in the Scripture given to the saints (as there is most frequently), it is the proper consequent of the work of the Holy Ghost towards them. Comfort or consolation in general, is the setting and composing of the soul in rest and contentedness in the midst of or from troubles, by […]
He Makes Every Gospel Truth As Wine
We have this, then, by the Spirit :—he teaches us of the love of God in Christ; he makes every gospel truth as wine well refined to our souls, and the good things of it to be a feast of fat things;—gives us joy and gladness of heart with all that we know of God; which is the great […]
The Essential Owen 