The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 243

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first Cbapter.

INTRODUCTION.

I.

The Man

to be

Wrought '•

I will pour out My Spirit unto you, I will make known My words unto you." Prov.

Behold,

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The work

far

discussion so

in the

upon.

23.

has been confined

We now

to

the

Holy

Spirit's

work

in

a distinction between the Church as a whole and

its

Church as a whole.

consider His'

individual persons.

There

is

individual members. bers

There

is

a £ody of Christ, and there are mem-

which constitute a part of that Body.

the Holy Spirit's work in the one

is

And

the character of

necessarily different from that

in the other.

The Church, born eternal counsel,

of the divine pleasure, is

and sovereign choice has prepared

complete in the all its course.

The same God who has numbered the hairs of our head has also numbered the members of Christ's Body. As every natural birth is

foreordained, so

is

every Christian birth in the Church divinely

predestinated.

The origin and awakening of eternal life are from above not from the creature, but from the Creator, and are rooted in His free and sovereign choice. And it remains not merely a choice, but is followed by a divine acf equally decisive that enforces and realizes ;

that choice.

That

is

is

He is not as a man who exHe is God who, never forsaking the work of His hands,

God's spiritual omnipotence.

periments, but persistent

and

doing of all His pleasure. Hence and the Church, whose form is otitlined

irresistible in the

His counsel becomes history

;

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