The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 52

INTRODUCTION

12 if

sin

had not entered

in;

and that now he affirms with equal em-

phasis that the Holy Spirit would have wrought in the world and in

man

the latter had remained sinless.

if

The answer

is

very simple.

If

Christ had not appeared in His

He would have had, as the Son, the Second Godhead, His own divine sphere of action, seeing consist through Him. On the contrary, if the work

capacity of Messiah,

Person in the that all things of the

Holy

deemed, into the

Spirit

were confined

to the sanctification of the re-

He would be absolutely inactive if sin had not entered world. And since this would be equal to a denial of His

Godhead, it can not for a moment be tolerated. By occupying this superior viewpoint, we apply to the work of the Holy Spirit the fundamental principle of the Reformed churches " That all things must be measured by the glory of :

God."

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