The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 191

THE APOSTOLIC SCRIPTURES

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and continued in the right direction. Hence the power of their writings, and the almost binding authority of their word." Over against these three opponents we wish to present the view of the best theologians of the Christian Church, which, altho fully appreciating the effects of regeneration and illumination in the apostles, still maintain that from these the infallible, apostolic

authority can not be explained

;

and that the authority

of their

word

is recognized only by the unconditional confession that these operations of grace were but the means used by the Holy Spirit when,

through the apostles,

forms for the

Church

He

cast His

of all ages.

own testimony

into documental

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