The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 204

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THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

THE NEW TESTA-

IN

MENT.

XXXIII.

The Holy

Scriptures in the "

New

Testament.

But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus

the Son of

the apostolate,

we

are

the Christ,

;

ye might have

name."—_/t;//«

Having considered

is

God and that believing

now

life

through His

xx. 31.

to discuss

God's

New

Testament Scripture. The apostolate placed a new power in the Church. Surely all power is in heaven but it has pleased God to let this power descend in the Church by means of organs and instruments, chief among which is the apostolate. This organ was a consolation of the Comforter, given to the Church after Jesus had ascended to heaven and was provisionally not to govern His Church in person. Hence it was a forsaken Church, not yet planted, and soon to be scattered, to which the Holy Spirit gave the apostolate as a bond of union, as an organ for self-extension, and as an instrument for its own enrichmefit with the full knowledge of the life of grace. Commissioned by the King of the Church, the apostles were animated by the Holy Spirit. As the King works for His Church only by the Spirit, so He caused the apostolate to work also by the higher powers of the Holy Spirit. It was not the Lord's intention tliat His Church should set out in ignorance, to wander about in manifold error, finally, the long gift to the

Church,

viz.,

the

;

journey ended, to arrive at a clearer perception of the truth but that from the beginning it should stand in the light of complete knowl;

edge.

Hence He gave

it

the apostolate, that from the cradle of

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