The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 557

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XIX.

The

Manifestation of Holy Love. "And we have known and love that

God hath

believed the

\John

to us."

iv. i6.

The

question which

divine, majestic act of

now

presents itself

is

:

making man a partaker

1.

We answer that this is Prepared by the Father in Creation.

2.

Made

3.

Effectually accomplished

In what

way

of true love

is

the

accom-

plished?

possible

by the Son

Redemption.

in

by the Holy

Spirit

in

Sanctifi-

cation.

There

work of the Father, which the Of God the Father and our Creation," following the example of St. Paul, who wrote: " But to is

in this respect, first a

Heidelberg Catechism designates,

whom

but one God the Father, of

us there

is

viii.

By

6.

"

we do not mean

this

to

are all things"

(i

Cor.

deny that God the Father

works also in redemption and in sanctification, for all the outgoing works of God belong to the three Persons. We only wish to indicate that seeking for the origin of things, one can not stop at the

Holy

Spirit, for

the Son, for

He

He

He proceedeth from

the Son and the Father

generated by the Father neither proceedeth from any one, nor is is

we

;

;

nor at

but at the Father, for

He

generated.

of making man a prepared by the Father in creation. For every exercise of love, both in man and animal, finds its ground in creation. In the animal God created instinctive love

In this Scriptural sense

partaker of Love

directly

blood,

;

in the

say, that the

work

is

man He

making all men of one be each other's helpmeets, that wonderful attraction of the

created love by

by ordaining husband and wife

and by creating in the blood one to the other.

itself

to

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