A Treatise Upon Growth in Grace - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAR VI. On the manner in which the Holy Ghost carries on his own most blefsed Work and Office in the soul, though it is imperceptible to the believer, who is the subject of it; and horo it is opened to him in subsequent and matured experience. WHEN Solomon at the dedication of the temple considered the immensity, blefsednefs, and majesty of the) Eternal Three, he broke out with astonishment,. saying, "Butwill God indeed "dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven <{ and heaven of heavens cannot contain "thee, how much lefs this house that I "have builded3?" The temple was a symbol of Christ's body, and a solemn pledge of his incarnation. It was an astonishing subject to contemplate, that the second person in the divine efsence would become man and appear in our world, " God manifest in the flesh." And it is equally stupendous grace, that the third person in God should, according to the ceconomy of the covenant, which obtained between the divine persons, dwell in his people, and thereby consecrate them for fellowship with the a 1 Kings viii. -27. Father and the Son. This is considered one of the great Miracles of Grace, as truly great and divine as the incarnation of the Son of God. By it believers are the temples of God. "Your bodies," says Paul to believers at Corinth, "are "the temples of the Holy Ghost V When we view and consider the various frames of mind which the believer hath the inward experience of, with the inward sight, sense, and feeling, which he hath from time to time of his own sin," guilt, filth, wounds, and miseries, with the spiritual perception which he hath of his heart's apostacy and departure from the Lord in his daily walk and warfare, it is altogether wonderful to contemplate, how the Holy Ghost is pleased to carry on his work of...