The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 162

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THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY

122

SPIRIT

body by the vital union of the elect, on the day of Pentecost poured out His Holy Spirit into the whole body, never more to let Him depart from it. That these conclusions contain nothing but what the Church of all ages has confessed appears from the fact that the Reformed churches have always maintained First, that our communion with the Holy Spirit depends upon our mystic union with the body of which Christ is the Head, which is

the underlying thought of the Lord's Supper.

Second, that the elect form one body under Christ their Head. Third, that this body began to exist

and

that,

after

according to Ephes.

i.

22,

when

Christ

His resurrection and ascension.

it

received

was given

its

to be the

Head;

Head

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