The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 167

— ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS the laying on of hands the fellowship of the

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Holy Ghost who dwells

in the body.

This also explains why to-day newly converted persons receive Holy Spirit only in the ordinary way. For they who are converted among us stand already in the covenant, belong already to the the

Hence no new conis wrought in a soul with which He was already related by means of the body. And thus every objection is met and every detail is put in its own place, and the lines of the domain which had become vague and confused are once more clearly drawn. seed

of

the

nection

It is

is

Church and to the body of

Christ. *

formed, but a work of the Holy Spirit

evident also that the prayer for another outpouring or bap-

is incorrect and empty of Such prayer actually denies the Pentecost miracle. came and abides with us can no more come to us.

tism of the Holy Spirit

*The

meaning. For He that

real

author refers either to persons baptized in infancy, instructed by

the ministers of the

Word

in the doctrines of the

Church and

at suitable

age

received into the Church on confession of their faith, or to persons not so received into the Church, and then on the ground that Holland belongs to the baptized nations.

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