The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 248

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II.

The Work

of Grace a Unit. " Because the love of

abroad

in

God

is

shed

our hearts by the

Holy Ghost, which is Rom. v. 5.

gfiven

unto us."

The

final

end of

all

God's ways

can not cease from working until vidual men.

He

is

He

that

He may be

all in all.

He

has entered the souls of indi-

thirsts after the creature's love.

In man's love

God He desires to see the virtues of His own love glorified. And love must spring from man's personal being, which has its seat for

in the heart.

The work

of grace exhibited in the eternal counsel can never be

sufficiently praised.

From Paradise to Patmos,

revealed to prophets

and apostles, it is transcendently rich and glorious. Prepared in Immanuel, who ascended on high, who has received gifts for men, yea. for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them, it exceeds the praise of men and angels. And yet its highest glory and majesty appear only when, overcoming the rebellious, operating in the soul, it causes its light so to shine that men, .seeing it, glorify the Father which is in heaven. Hence the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the crowning event of all the great events of salvation, because i.e.,

it

reveals subjectively,

in individual persons, the grace revealed hitherto objectively.

Assuredly in the days of the Old Covenant saving grace wrought it always bore a preliminary and special charac-

in individuals, but

Old-Covenant believers " received not the promise, that they without us should not be made perfect." And the dispensation of personal salvation, in its normal character, began only when, the work of reconciliation being finished, Immanuel risen, the other Comforter had come inwardly to enrich the members of the Body ter.

of Christ.

Hence the purpose

of the Triune

God

steadily urges to this

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