The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 565

LOVE WHICH DWELLS upon the head

of Christ, flows

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THE HEART

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down from Him upon all who belong down so far that even the

to His glorious, mystical body; reaching

who are but as the hem of His garment, are pervaded by the selfsame precious ointment. This beautiful figure illustrates the unity which, as the fruit of Love, is wrought by the selfsame Holy Spirit who in all ages^ among all nations, in all tongues and languages, enters into the hearts of God's elect, abiding with them, planting Himself in them, never to leave them who dwelling and working in all not according to His own choice, but according to the disposition of the members in the body of Christ, under Him as their glorious Head, has established the most blessed fellowship between that Head and the members has entered every heart and penetrated to its deepest stratum has united the whole assembly of the elect into one glorious, concordant whole, in perfect Love, now and forever. And this mighty fact, that the selfsame Holy Spirit dwells and works in all, is not only the prophecy of Love, but the demonstration of the fact that Love exists, and that every disturbing element is but the dust that still covers the diamond, and the dross that prevents the glittering of the gold. God the Holy Spirit lives, is. and feels Himself One in all God's children; and altho each experiences this in his own way, and expresses it in his own tongue, it is One and the Same who comforts and works in them all. least esteemed,

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Hence the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, loves His own work which He works in others. The Holy Spirit in one, can not deny Himself in another. From this it follows that the indwelling of the same Holy Spirit in all not only guarantees a real and substantial unity for the future and for the present, whether visible or inbut the very fact itself causes the Love of God to be shed abroad in the hearts of the saints, since the Holy Spirit must always visible,

love Himself. If He merely hovered over the surface of the soul's life, this would not mean much but there can be no stratum in the soul so low that He does not penetrate it. The fountain that He has opened in us pours forth from the spot where the first pulsations, the deepest motives and workings of the new man, originate. On ;

we may therefore cherish another love but when, deceived and disappointed by that love, with contrite hearts we feel that the creature can not be trusted, then we find on the bottom of the surface

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