The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 675

PRAYER However, the glory does

it

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of this does not belong to the sinner; nor

in the least affect the absolute character of

man's depravity

But it shows that the Lord God did not leave the sinner to his sin; but even in the absence of regeneration, and to the glory of His name, caused general grace to intervene, which frequently illuminated the life of prayer.

by

sin.

And when

such a people,

still

acquainted with these holy tradi-

and gracious operations, received the knowledge of Christ crucified and of His power to save, it became evident afterward that the prayers which, independently of himself, were laid upon the sinner's lips had prepared a way and opened a gate through tions

come into such a people. And taappears from the experience of many that, long before the soul became conscious of saving grace, the grace of God not only kept him from violent outbreaks of sin, but, through the tradition of prayer, wrought a work in him the blessed which the King

king

it

of Glory could

in individual cases,

effects of

And

which were understood only long afterward.

all

touch the

it

these operations oi general grace are, as soon as they

life of

prayer, the

work

of the

Holy

Spirit.

creation strung the harp of prayer in the soul

is

the

He who in same who

causes not only the tone of prayer to vibrate even in our egoistic who, in a more glorious way, sometimes even as tho

petitions, but

^olian harp, touches the strings with the breath His mouth, and draws from it the beautiful and entrancing tones prayers and supplications.

the soul were an of of

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