The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 459

FAITH IN THE SAVED SINNER ALONE

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not so endowed he will never accept it, duty the he should be flooded with apologetics. Surely it is our sometimes difficulties, to assist seeking souls, to explain or remove even to silence a mocker; but to make an unbeliever have faith in

will accept Scripture

Scripture

is

utteriy

;

if

beyond man's power.

Faith and Scripture belong together the Holy Spirit intended the one for the other. The latter is so arranged as to be accepted by ;

comthe sinner endowed with faith. And faith is a disposition, the Hence Scripture. pletely reconciling the consciousness and the rationalthe not in "testimonium Spiritus Sancti" should be taken, or Ethical sense of being the operation upon a certain universal istic

disposition, but as a real testimony of the

Holy

Spirit,

who

dwells

adaptationin the consciousness, and gives us to experience the faith. to like that of the eye to color— of Scripture

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