The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 58

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IV.

The Work

of the Holy Spirit Distingfuished.

"And

the Spirit of

God moved upon

face of the waters."

What,

in general, is the

work

Holy

of the

Gen.

i.

the

2.

Spirit as distinguished

from that of the Father and of the Son? Not that every believer needs to know these distinctions in all The existence of faith does not depend upon intellecparticulars. The main question is not whether we can distual distinctions. tinguish the work of the Father from that of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, but whether we have experienced their gracious opera-

The

tions.

root of the matter, not the natue, decides.

Must we then things?

Shall

slightly value a clear understanding of sacred

we deem

it

every department of

superfluous and call

By no means.

hair-splitting questions?

life.

Scientists

their lives in analyzing the minutest plants

every particular, naming every Their work as

is

" scientific

its

member

and

insects, describing

of the dissected organism.

never called "hair-splittings," but

research."

And

there can be no insight,

when

it

is

distinguished

rightly so, for without differentiation

and without insight there can

thorough acquaintance with the subject. desire unprofitable

great matters

The human mind searches deem it an honor to spend

Why,

bfe

then, call this

no

same

directs the attention not to the creature,

but to the Lord God our Creator? Can there be any worthier object of mental application than the eternal God? Is it right and proper to insist upon correct discrimination in every other sphere of knowledge, and yet regarding the knowledge of God to be satisfied with generalities and confused views? Has God not invited us to share the intellectual knowledge of His Being? Has He not given us His Word? And does not the

Word

illumine the mysteries of His Being, His attributes. His per-

fections,

His virtues, and the mode of His subsistence?

If

we

aspired to penetrate into things too high for us, or to unveil the

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