The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 317

OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

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tho he lived in Christ, so strongly do we oppose the representation that any virtue, holiness, or righteousness proceeded from Adam not

To deny this would make sinless Adam in him. fountain of some good, and oppose the confession that God alone is the Fountain of all good. Hence we arrive at this conclusion, that in Adam all goodness wrought by God a

little

was wrought by the Boly Spirit, according to the holy ordinance which assigns to the Third Person in the Trinity the inward operation of all rational beings.

However,

this does not

imply that before the

fall

the Holy Spirit

He

does in the regenerated child In the latter He can only djvell, since the human nature is of God. corrupt and unfit to be His vehicle. But not so with Adam. His nature was created and calculated to be a vehicle of the Holy Spirit's

dwelt in

Adam

as in His temple, as

Hence Adam and the regenerated are similar in this that in both there is no goodness not wrought by the Holy

operations. respect,

but dissimilar, in that the latter can offer only his sinful heart for the Holy Spirit's indwelling, while Adam's being underwent His operations without His indwelling, organically and Spirit

;

naturally.

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