Teach and comfort us, O LORD
"Have ye received the Holy Ghost?" -Acts 19:2 [KJV] My soul, ponder over the solemn question again and again, and then see what answer thou canst give to a point so infinitely interesting and important. The Holy Spirit is clearly known by the exercise of His blessed offices in every heart where He abides, and where He is the glorious inhabitant. He comes in Jesus's name as an ambassador, to propose to the sinner a rich and precious Saviour. He comes as an almighty teacher; and this condescending office He graciously exerciseth in convincing of sin, and convincing of the righteousness of Jesus. He comes as an advocate; and by His pleading the cause of a poor sinner's own necessities, and the cause of a rich Saviour's willingness and ability to supply all these necessities, He manifests Himself a most powerful advocate, when, by His constraining grace, He makes the poor sinner willing in the day of His power. He comes as an enlightener of the dark a...